Archive for June, 2010
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Conservative Republican Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has represented Irvine and the rest of the 70th Assembly District for about six years, lost his race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday. It wasn't much of a surprise. Carly Fiorina, the winner, is wealthy and well connected to the big political donors in the state.
But DeVore campaigned hard and built an impressive fundraising base of his own, albeit from smaller donors. Many of them saw DeVore, an advocate of nuclear power and a Tea Party favorite, as their only option. DeVore's approach to governing is simple: there ought to be less of it.
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There had been talk of this run for months as his Senate campaign collapsed. But, is it enough?
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By winning the Republican primary resoundingly against two tough and skilled opponents, Carly has proven herself to be a tenacious and energetic campaigner whose competitive spirit was on full display Election Night. Having worked with Carly for almost a year, I have learned that you can’t bridle Carly’s energy – you just hold on and go with the flow. Voters will learn soon enough that Carly is the Mohamed Ali of 2010: she’ll “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.†Most importantly, Carly will defeat Barbara Boxer in November.
How will we achieve this Republican version of the impossible dream? The answer is simple, really. It’s the same way we always win, which is to run a complete campaign that measures itself again four basic elements of successful campaigns: the candidate, the issue environment, organization and money.
I didn’t just make this up; I learned it from the best, Stu Spencer.
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If you want to win in California, read it all.
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With all of this as prologue, it's been interesting to see Romney work to repair relationships with his rivals. He not only campaigned for McCain during the general election in 2008, but he has endorsed him in the Arizona Senate primary.
Yesterday, in a USA Today op-ed criticizing Obama's handling of the BP oil spill, Romney slipped in the following two paragraphs:
We saw leadership on Sept. 11, 2001. Then as now, black billows seemed to come from the center of the earth. Lives had been lost. The environmental impact was immeasurable. The looming economic impact from lost tourism was incalculable. Into the crisis walked Rudy Giuliani. While that was an incomparable human tragedy, how the mayor led New York City to recover is a useful model for the president.
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Because Rudy is doing events in New Hampshire. And, head to head with Rudy, Romney will lose the GOP nomination.
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Fresh off her decisive victory in the Republican Senate primary this week, Carly Fiorina found herself in the national spotlight Thursday — for criticizing her opponent's hairdo.
Chatting with an aide and having her makeup applied before a TV interview Wednesday, the newly minted GOP nominee was caught dissing Sen. Barbara Boxer's hairstyle — unaware that the camera was rolling. Fiorina said she heard from a friend that day who saw Boxer on TV. The person "said what everyone says, 'God, what is that hair?' " Fiorina said, letting out a long laugh. "So yesterday."
At that point, someone pointed out to Fiorina she was being recorded, and a look of "uh-oh" came over the candidate's face. The four-plus-minute video of Fiorina, in which she also knocks GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman's decision to appear on conservative Sean Hannity's TV program so soon after the primary, is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cTk3XIrZ3w.
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A Gaffe or a calculated ploy?
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has compared billionaire GOP nominee Meg Whitman's saturation campaign effort to that of a Nazi minister of propaganda.
"It's like Goebbels," Brown told Doug Sovern of KCBS radio in the Bay Area, referring to Joseph Goebbels. "Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda. He took control of the whole world. She wants to be president. That's her ambition, the first woman president. That's what this is all about."
A Brown spokesman did not dispute the statement but said Brown does not believe Whitman is comparable to Goebbels. Whitman's campaign manager Jillian Hasner called the remarks "deeply offensive."
The remarks, posted on Sovern's blog Wednesday, were made before Tuesday's primary when Sovern ran into Brown while bike-riding.
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No mudslinging, eh Jerry?
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The Hindenboxer sailing over the Golden Gate Bridge
The latest Rasmussen poll has Republican Carly Fiorina within striking distance and incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer below 50 per cent.
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina both receive small bounces in support following their parties’ nominations for the U.S. Senate race in California.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Boxer picking up 48% support over Fiorina’s 43%. Five percent (5%) would vote for some other candidate and another five percent (5%) are undecided.
These polls will be bouncing all over the place before Labor Day. But, it remains – Senator Barbara Boxer is extremely vulnerable.
Boxer, who is seeking a fourth six-year term, has yet to reach the 50%
level of support in the general election. The good news for Boxer is
that she has the power of incumbency on her side in a state that trends
Democratic. The bad news is that she remains stuck in the 40s. At this
stage of the campaign, any incumbent who earns less than 50% of the vote
is considered potentially vulnerable.
More good news for the Democrat is that 50% of California voters oppose a
repeal of the health care reform law and only 46% in California favor
repeal of the plan. Nationally, most voters support repeal.
Fiorina picks up 80% of the vote from those who strongly favor repeal,
while Boxer is supported by 75% who strongly oppose it.
The nominees are tied among voters not affiliated with either major
political party.
And, Carly Fiorina is within the margin of error in the poll.
This statewide telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters in California was conducted on June 9, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
As far as favorability vs unfavorability:
Boxer is viewed Very Favorably by 21% and Very Unfavorably by 37%. These reviews are slightly worse for Boxer than they were a month ago.
Fiorina’s ratings are 15% Very Favorable and 18% Very Unfavorable, showing little change from before the primary.
At this point in a campaign, Rasmussen Reports considers the number of people with strong opinions more significant than the total favorable/unfavorable numbers.
Stay tuned…..
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Didn’t President Obama say he wanted to restore America’s credibility in world affairs? So, why not party with world leaders and win them over in this way?
You say this won’t work with miscreants, tyrants and dictators. I think you are right.
But, American voters elected a rookie, a blank slate candidate in Barack Obama. He had NO executive experience and NO foreign policy experience. Maybe it is better to keep him in Washington hosting parties then REALLY screwing up America’s interests.
2012 and the Presidential elections cannot come too soon.
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Long pilloried for being soft on illegal immigration, top Democratic officials have concluded there’s only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill:
Talk more like Republicans.
They’re seizing on the work of top Democratic Party operatives who, after a legislative defeat in 2007, launched a multiyear polling project to craft an enforcement-first, law-and-order, limited-compassion pitch that now defines the party’s approach to the issue.
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No matter how much the DEM LEFT sugracoats illegal immigration, they support amnesty.
The 12 million people who unlawfully reside the country? Call them “illegal immigrants,†not “undocumented workers,†the pollsters say.
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Brown boasted about his legendary frugality. "I've only spent $200,000 so far. I have 20 million in the bank. I'm saving up for her." It's true – his stay-on-the-sidelines, bare-bones primary run cost him almost nothing, at least in California political terms. But he also fretted about the impact of all those eBay dollars in Whitman's very deep pockets. "You know, by the time she's done with me, two months from now, I'll be a child-molesting…" He let the line trail off. "She'll have people believing whatever she wants about me." Then he went off on a riff I didn't expect.
"It's like Goebbels," referring to Hitler's notorious Minister of Propaganda. "Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda. He took control of the whole world. She wants to be president. That's her ambition, the first woman president. That's what this is all about."
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Jerry Brown is a SENILE fruitcake
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Since this photo surfaced the other day and the kiddies on the left suggested Sarah Palin may have had some breast augmentation, much amusement and discussion has followed, with even the guttersnipes at Media Matters getting their panties in a knot.
Well thanks to tipster Mark, we can now lay this absurd rumor to rest. As can be seen in this photo taken in Kuwait in July 2007, more than a year before most people ever heard of her, they're all real, baby.
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Wow!
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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was injured by a mohair goat on Thursday during a press conference to highlight subsidies to the mohair industry.
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Uh Oh!
The goat nicked Weiner's right hand with one of its pointy, foot-long horns, hard enough to draw blood.
Weiner was speaking to reporters in a park near the Rayburn House Office Building, where he was joined by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and two young male mohair goats, Lancelot and Arthur.
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In the election itself, the Republican right was repudiated by its own voters in California's last closed primary at virtually every level. Look at the endorsements of the California Republican Assembly and the results:
Governor: Steve Poizner – Lost 27 to 64 percent
Lt Governor: Sam Aanestad – Lost 31 to 43 percent
Attorney General: John Eastman – Lost 34 to 47 percent
Proposition 14: No – Republicans voted yes
US Senate: Chuck DeVore – Ran third with only 19 percent
So the Republican electorate gave the right wing candidates on average about 30 percent of the GOP primary vote. The CRA suffered a personal repudiation when its former president, Ken Mettler, was crushed 27 to 68 percent in an Assembly primary.
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The Far Right has lost touch with California voters and they were repudiated for more mainstream candidates
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Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) isn't going back to the Senate next year after losing his bid for renomination, but he wants a hand in selecting who will take his seat.
Bennett will endorse business consultant Tim Bridgewater (R), according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Bennett joins 2 other candidates in backing Bridgewater, who faces attorney Mike Lee (R) in the June 22 primary.
Bridgewater has support from most of the UT GOP establishment, while Lee has backing from Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-SC) Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks, the conservative group closely affiliated with Tea Party movements. The Club for Growth spent about $177K in defeating Bennett, but they haven't picked a candidate in the primary between Bridgewater and Lee.
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Payback time for Bennett.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
If I were the political advisers of President Obama, I would not be planning any second term festivities just yet.
The Democrat Party is in disarray, fighting with their major donor unions (notably the SEIU – Senator Blanche Lincoln Arkansas fight) and poised to lose their super majority in Congress this November. Interestingly enough, President Bill Clinton has re-emerged in the political arena in Arkansas.
Might Hillary be waiting in the wings, should Obama start to collapse in the polls?
You betcha.
The President will now be looking over his LEFT and RIGHT shoulders.
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