Archive for September, 2010
The Republican nominee for the Delaware Senate seat fired back at Karl Rove today for what she called “un-factual” accusations about her record.
Newly nominated Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell has her work cut out for herself.
Republicans more than likely cost themselves a Senate seat last night. Chris Coons begins the general election in Delaware with a 50-34 lead over Christine O’Donnell. Mike Castle would have led Coons by a 45-35 margin.
While O’Donnell may have ingratiated herself to Delaware’s small group of registered Republicans over the last month she’s turned off everyone else. An August Daily Kos/PPP poll in Delaware found her favorability rating at 23/33. It’s now 29/50.
If Castle had won he would have received more Democratic support than any other Republican Senate candidate in the country. Now our polling suggests with O’Donnell’s victory that Coons will win more Republicans than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the country. That’s because of a general unwillingness to support O’Donnell from Castle’s moderate base- folks from the centrist wing of the GOP are planning to support Coons 54-31. Overall he takes a full 25% of the GOP vote while also largely consolidating the Democratic base for a 72-13 lead on that front. He also has a narrow 42-36 advantage with independents, a group Democrats are losing with most everywhere else.
Only 31% of voters in the state think O’Donnell’s fit to hold public office while 49% think that she is not. Even with Republicans in the state less than half at 48% believe that she is. That may seem inconsistent with her victory last night but keep in mind that our general election poll includes GOP voters who were not planning to vote in yesterday’s primary. Only 33% of independents and 16% of Democrats believe O’Donnell’s fit.
Granted this is from a Democratic pollster and it may be an early outlier. But, you can understand why the NRSC will NOT throw any money into this race – at least initially.
Defeating Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer are REALLY more important anyway. And, the races there are much closer – both within the margin of error.
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Guess the NRSC is already making nice with the O’Donnell Campaign.
Seeking to avoid further internal strife, top Senate Republicans on Wednesday offered an olive branch to tea-party favorite Christine O’Donnell in Delaware’s Senate race, promising her financial support if she can prove she’s a viable candidate.
A day after seeing Republican Rep. Mike Castle stunned by O’Donnell in the Delaware Senate primary, Republicans in Washington wanted to make clear they weren’t planning on completely abandoning her unlikely candidacy.
Tags: Christine_O'Donnell, Chris_Coons
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Graphic from Rush Limbaugh
I guess we will see with the coming general election in Delaware if the Rush Limbaugh Rule works.
And, the total votes for the control of the United States Senate.
There are caveats and frankly I don’t see how the Republican Party wins here – in any case.
I find Rush’s argument in favor of the Limbaugh Rule lacking on its own terms as well as in terms of the prudence one should ordinarily apply to matters of practical politics. Among other things, the Limbaugh Rule does not take account of the advantages of majority status in the Senate. Rush’s formulation of the Limbaugh Rule nevertheless clarifies the issues of judgment that have divided conservatives in Delaware and elsewhere this primary season.
But, in a couple of months the votes will be counted. Tags: Rush_Limbaugh, William_F_Buckley
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The Obama Economic Stimulus or Porkulus signs are typical “Big Government” methods to toot their own horn, so to speak.
Are they a waste of taxpayer money?
You bet, unless you are the sign maker and the guys who install them.
Why does “Big Government” need to publicize its efforts? This is how they roll – more and more government spending until they surround the American economy, and isn’t it grand?
As far as missing President Bush – I don’t. He was an ineffective communicator and has caused much consternation for the RIGHT – much like his father who followed President Reagan. It has taken almost two years to repair the damage to the GOP.
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The third assumption is that, backed by the Tea Party movement, Palin can win between 30 and 40 percent of the vote in many of the early multi-candidate primaries and caucuses. This doesn't seem like a reach, given the vote count for Tea Party movement candidates this year. In Nevada, for example, Sharron Angle (unfancied at first) won the Senate nomination in a three main candidate race with 40 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, across the country, Christine O'Donnell, who has never made a mark in prior campaigns, seems set to ride Tea Pary support (plus that of Palin) to a strong showing and possible primary victory, albeit in a field devoid of a true conservative option.
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Read it all and agreed.
Sarah can win in Iowa and South Carolina and then finish off Romney in Florida
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Bill Clinton flashed irritation at MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other liberals Monday for failing to appreciate the successes of his presidency.
“One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I’m a closet communist,” Clinton said during an appearance with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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Think Clinton will campaign for Jerry Brown?
Uh….No……
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The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition have unveiled a new website to help grass-roots win the 50 races deemed critical to conservatives' efforts to seize power in the House of Representatives.
Among the Democrats being targeted on the ElectionDayTeaParty.com site: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ron Klein of Florida.
Michael Patrick Leahy, author of “Rules for Conservative Radicals” and co-founder of the National Tea Party Coalition, tells Newsmax the ElectionDayTeaParty site is designed for use by tea party activists and supporters, and by "tea party sympathizers" who may have never attended a tea party rally.
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A nice site that consolidates activism
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There was a time in Washington when Jack Anderson was a hero, the columnist who kept unearthing Richard Nixon's dark secrets, a Pulitzer winner who revealed the administration's secret tilt toward Pakistan in its war against India.
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The Senate on Tuesday defeated an effort to strip a controversial tax-reporting provision from the sweeping healthcare law Congress passed earlier this year.
In a 46-52 vote, lawmakers killed an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) that would have saved businesses and nonprofit groups from having to report an array of small and medium-sized purchases to the Internal Revenue Service.
A handful of Democrats voted for the Johanns proposal, including Sens. Evan Bayh (Ind.), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Mark Warner (Va.), and Jim Webb (Va.).
The vote puts the Senate on track to pass small-business assistance legislation this week or early next week.
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I can see the television commercials now touting the Dems as anti-business and pro-bureaucracy
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has been holding a series of private dinners with top Republican business leaders, policy hands and donors from around the country since this spring, an indication that he’s thinking more seriously about a presidential bid than he publicly lets on.
The dinners, which take place at the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis, are meant to introduce Daniels to a class of GOP heavy-hitters who could both finance and advise a White House campaign.
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I think he will make the run….
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In the Senate today, Nebraska Republican Mike Johanns will offer his amendment to scrap the new 1099 rules altogether. But the White House is opposing this because it fears it would set a precedent for repealing the larger health bill. Over the weekend the Treasury Department pronounced the Johanns amendment "not acceptable in its current form."
Yesterday the White House endorsed a competing proposal from Florida Democrat Bill Nelson that would increase the 1099 threshold to $5,000 and exempt businesses with fewer than 25 workers. Yet this is little more than a rearguard action in favor of the status quo; the Nelson amendment leaves the basic architecture unchanged while making the problem more complex.
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More unintended ObamaCare consequences
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Guess what? You can be a “TRUE CONSERVATIVE,” a blogger behind a keyboard, a talk show host behind a mic, a prime-time TV host in front of a camera, a Beltway pundit, or a heartland Tea Party activist and come to different, good-faith conclusions about this race. I know people in both the Castle camp and the O’Donnell camp. I’m not going to deride or disown my friends in the blogosphere or anywhere else because we disagree. That’s, well, unhinged.
Everyone get a grip. Take a deep breath. Fight your best fight. Make your best arguments. Wait for the votes to be counted. Then march on and move forward.
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There you have it. Mike Castle never voted to impeach President Bush; no such vote ever occurred on the floor of the House. He did vote to commit goofball Congressman Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, where it died, as intended, a slow death. And Castle's office said that it opposed impeachment because "they believed there weren't any crimes committed by the Bush administration."
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Uhhhhh No……as it seems
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This video features an heated debate between Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown during the 1992 Democratic Primaries. Things get personal when Brown attacks Hillary
Does anyone REALLY think that Bill Clinton will push this flap aside? I think Bill Clinton pathetically feels sorry for Governor Moonbeam.
Not really but Bill knows that Obama is weak and Hillary might be able to make a come back – so he will play the game.
Former President Bill Clinton endorsed Jerry Brown’s bid to become governor on Tuesday, saying he and Brown had put the ugliness from their 1992 primary battle behind them and that Republican Meg Whitman’s ad that featured him was misleading.
“I strongly support Jerry Brown for governor because I believe he was a fine mayor of Oakland, he’s been a very good attorney general, and he would be an excellent governor at a time when California needs his creativity and fiscal prudence,” Clinton said in a statement to The Times.
Tags: Bill_Clinton
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California Democrat Attorney General Jerry Brown’s latest television ad depicting Meg Whitman as Pinocchio
Jerry Brown is hitting back at Republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman after she ran television ads featuring Bill Clinton clips that call the former Governor Jerry Brown a liar on Proposition 13, raising taxes and running a California budget deficit.
But, although some of Clinton’s assertions have been examined and clarified, not all of Whitman’s ad is false. Besides, I remember Jerry Brown, the Proposition 13 tax revolt and his blatant flip-flop. A classic Jerry Brown re-invention.
So, Governor Moonbeam goes personally negative against Whitman highlighting issues where he has blatantly spun the truth or outright lied.
Nice……and good luck with that Jerry.
Here is Brown’s other television ad that also will begin on California television this evening.
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Embedded ever changing poll Boxer 46.9% Vs Fiorina 45.5% on average
The Fox News release is here and the poll crosstabs are located here. Both pdf files.
Yet, Pollster has a more interesting chart:
California Job approval: Senator Barbara Boxer – Approve 41.8% Vs. Disapprove 46.3
Senator Boxer went on television yesterday and it will be interesting if she obtains any movement in the polls. My bet is that she will until Carly Fiorina starts running television ads reminding California voters how bad the California economy really is.
Remember my prediction: Carly Fiorina by 3 points and she will pull away a week before the election. Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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