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• Larry Sabato: GOP to Take House, Maybe Senate in 2010 Election
  Typically cautious Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, is rocking the political world with a new "Crystal Ball" prediction: The GOP will win the House, making Ohio's John Boehner speaker, might get a 50-50 split in the Senate, and will pick up some eight new governors.
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  "2010 was always going to be a Republican year, in the midterm tradition," Sabato said in his latest prediction, issued Thursday
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  That is a fair assessment of the coming bloodbath for Democrats.

  Read it all.

  (tags: larry_sabato GOP democrats)
• Feds Sue Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Civil Rights Probe
  The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

  The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and jail policies that discriminate against people with limited English skills

  Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents the federal government first asked for 15 months ago.
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  Obama, Holder trying to exact a political pound of flesh.

  (tags: joe_arpaio illegal_immigration barack_obama eric_holder)
• Obamanomics: Economist Christina Romer serves up dismal news at her farewell luncheon
  Even now, Romer said, mystery persists. "To this day, economists don't fully understand why firms cut production as much as they did or why they cut labor so much more than they normally would." Her defense was that "almost all analysts were surprised by the violent reaction."

  That miscalculation, in turn, led to her miscalculation that the stimulus package would be enough to keep the unemployment rate from exceeding 8 percent. Without the policy, she had predicted, unemployment would soar to 9.5 percent. The plan passed, and unemployment went to 10 percent.
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  Woefully incompetent tenure which will sink the Dems this November

  (tags: christina_romer Obamanomics)

Boxer went on to answer by trashing Carly Fiorina about Wall Street values but she never did answer the question about her own record.

I mean if you cannot make the case for your own candidacy = FAIL.

Alice and I will be heading out on Saturday morning to the Disneyland Half Marathon Expo and the Marriott. We will be meeting up with friends from Los Angeles Roadrunners and the Los Angeles Running Club.

I am hoping for a PR in this race for the 13.1 miles.

My racing split times, including the finish will be posted over at Flap’s Dentistry Blog and on @Flap on Twitter.

Wish me luck!

Well, this race will boil down to the California economy and it sucks now with very high taxes and even higher unemployment. The Christian Science Monitor gets it.

Neither candidate made any large gaffes or scored a knockout. The proceedings were fast-paced and informative, with both participants articulate and combative, feminine but in charge.

Those are the assessments of top political analysts, voters, and academics across California after the televised one-hour debate Wednesday night between Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California and firebrand Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

All in all, the debate will mean little since it was NOT widely broadcast, California voters are not focused and most are disinterested in two pols slugging it out on television when there are better programs to watch.

There is spin from both sides that say I won, etc etc. But, the race will come down to California voters’ pocketbook in November. If the economy remains mired in recession/depression mode, Californians will vote out the incumbents.

Plain and simple…….

Very apparent since she cannot say when government is too big or spending is too much.

Boxer is a light weight intellectually (actually embarrassing), has done NOTHING during her three terms in the Senate and should be retired and replaced with Carly Fiorina in November.