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• Jerry Brown – Meg Whitman debate: Sparks fly over 'whore' remark|
  One of the sharpest moments in the debate has come after moderator Tom Brokaw broached the recent recording of someone on Jerry Brown’s campaign calling Meg Whitman a “whore” during an endorsement phone call.

  Brown began by dismissing the recording, calling it a “five-week-old private conversation” before eventually offering a half-hearted apology to Whitman for the “garbled transmission.”

  She didn’t accept it. “It’s not just me but the people of California who deserve better than slurs,” Whitman said.

  The remark, she said, was “not befitting of the office you are running for.”

  Brown began to defend the recording again, saying he was “not even sure it’s legal,” suggesting the campaign had not consented to being recorded. Brown’s former communications director, in his attorney general’s office, resigned after secretly recording interviews with reporters.
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  A poor response by Brown. Likely to be seen in ads.

  (tags: Jerry_Brown Meg_Whitman)
• House Surge Strategy: GOP Groups Launch $50 Million Ad Blitz
  An alliance of Republican groups is launching a $50 million advertising blitz this week in a final push to help the GOP win a majority in the House, representing the biggest spending blitz ever by such groups in a congressional election campaign.
  The coordinated effort, which the groups have dubbed the "House surge strategy," tops what the official Republican House election committee expects to spend on television ads for the entire contest. It is aimed at the few dozen competitive races where Democratic candidates have significantly more money in the bank than their Republican opponents, eating into one of the Democrats' last financial advantages.

  Democratic candidates, notably incumbents, have raised more cash than many of their Republicans rivals in this year's most competitive House races, according to a Wall Street Journal tally of Federal Election Commission data.
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  This surge will offset the Democrat incumbent advantage in campaign money.

  (tags: GOP democrats)
• CA-Gov: Unnamed source pins 'whore' comment on Jerry Brown's wife
  In the latest of personal skirmishes leading up to the last gubernatorial debate Tuesday, Jerry Brown's wife, Anne Gust Brown, is now at the center of speculation over who advised Brown to call Meg Whitman a "whore" in a private conversation recorded by a voice message machine last month.

  A Fox News blog, quoting an unnamed source with reportedly close ties to Jerry Brown's campaign, said Brown's wife was the culprit, though the Brown campaign continued to insist it didn't know who it was. A woman can be heard on the audio tape saying "what about saying she's a whore?" in a private conversation among Brown's campaign aides about how to respond to an endorsement a small police union was giving to Whitman.
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  Come on Jerry admit it….

  (tags: Jerry_Brown Meg_Whitman)
• CA-Sen: Obama coming to Barbara Boxer's aid
  President Obama will be spending one of those last precious days just before the election helping California incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer in her race against GOP challenger Carly Fiorina. It's yet another sign of the rising national attention on the California Senate race, which until now has been overshadowed by the gubernatorial contest between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman.

  This direct from the White House: Obama will be at a DNC fundraiser in San Francisco on Oct. 20th and again in Los Angeles on the 22nd, after which he heads straight for Las Vegas to help embattled majority leader Harry Reid, a close Boxer friend.
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  Will this pull it out for Boxer and Reid?

  Doubtful

  (tags: barack_obama barbara_boxer)
• Poll Watch: Nearly half of Obama's supporters have now given up on him
  Nearly half the people who once considered themselves supporters of President Barack Obama don't anymore.

  Other than that, his virtually nonstop cross-country campaigning for embattled Democrats in the Nov. 2 election is working perfectly. Monday night, he spoke to two party fundraisers of ordinary American millionaires in Miami, as The Ticket reported here.

  A new poll released today by Bloomberg News finds all that hopey-changey stuff is rapidly turning to disappointment and disenchantment. While 47% of all voters approve of Obama's job now, ominously for 2012 only 36% of onetime Obama supporters now approve. Feeling jilted?

  Someone named Hillary Clinton is now viewed favorably by fully 64% of Americans, even more than like Obama's wife.
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  Hope and change has clashed with reality of governing

  (tags: barack_obama)
• Co-Sen: Smearing Ken Buck
  Progressive attack dogs are trying desperately to drag Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck’s name through the mud. They will only end up with the indelible smell of dog crap on their own hands.

  The non-issue: Buck’s decision not to prosecute a five-year-old alleged rape case for lack of evidence.

  Responsible district attorneys have to make tough decisions like these all the time. Since even the Huffington Post was forced to acknowledge that such prosecutorial calculations are “not entirely rare with such delicate cases,” the best they can do is accuse Buck of “insensitivity.” The lefties then contradict themselves by attacking Buck for sensitively and sensibly advising the accuser of the consequences of moving forward and going public given the ambiguities of her case:
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  Read it all…

  (tags: ken_buck)
• Top 20 most influential people in the Tea Party movement: 20-11
  15. Michael Leahy, blogger

  Author of the forthcoming book “The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement” and co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, Michael Leahy had a role in the coordination of the first round of Tea Party protests in 2009. Leahy hosts two programmes on Pajamas TV, The Tea Party Coalition Show and TCOT. Leahy is the publisher and managing editor of The TCOT Report, which publishes breaking news reported by conservatives from a list he created on Twitter called Top Conservatives on Twitter. Leahy calls himself a grassroots new media strategist and blogs about conservative issues.
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  Michael was instrumental in Top Conservatives on Twitter which drove the early Tea Party Movement.

  (tags: top_conservatives_on_twitter michael_leahy)
• Republicans Challenge Democrats Once Seen as ‘Safe’ – Democrats Traige to Save Seats
  Republicans are expanding the battle for the House into districts that Democrats had once considered relatively safe, while Democrats began a strategy of triage on Monday to fortify candidates who they believe stand the best chance of survival.

  As Republicans made new investments in at least 10 races across the country, including two Democratic seats here in eastern Ohio, Democratic leaders took steps to pull out of some races entirely or significantly cut their financial commitment in several districts that the party won in the last two election cycles.

  Representatives Steve Driehaus of Ohio, Suzanne M. Kosmas of Florida and Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania were among the Democrats who learned that they would no longer receive the same infusion of television advertising that party leaders had promised. Party strategists conceded that these races and several others were slipping out of reach.
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  The Dems will lose big or really big.

  (tags: democrats GOP)
• WI-Sen Poll Watch: Ron Johnson (R) 52% Vs. Russ Feingold (D) 45%
  Republican challenger Ron Johnson continues to earn more than 50% of the vote in his U.S. Senate bid against incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin.

  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Wisconsin finds Johnson with 52% support. Feingold, who has represented the state in the Senate since 1993, earns 45% of the vote. Two percent (2%) are undecided.
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  Leans Republican as another long time Dem Senator finds himself in trouble

  (tags: Ron_Johnson,Russ_Feingold)

So screams the Matt Drudge headline as Noem raises the most in campaign cash.

Republican Kristi Noem’s campaign reported raising more than $1.1 million from July through September, twice the amount incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin collected.

Noem, a Castlewood rancher and state legislator, also leads Herseth Sandlin in cash on hand, with almost $777,000 compared to about $500,000 for the Democrat, according to figures released by each campaign Monday.

In a difficult political environment nationally for Democrats, Herseth Sandlin had been able to count on a significant fundraising edge to pay for ads and other campaign resources to win over voters. But the latest figures suggest that Democratic money either is drying up or, worse, that supporters are losing confidence in the incumbent, said Ken Blanchard, a political science professor at Northern State University in Aberdeen, who also runs a conservative blog.

“Raising half the funds of a challenger in a race where you’re tied or behind in the polls is a very bad sign for an incumbent,” he said.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released last week of 500 likely voters showed Noem with 47 percent and Herseth Sandlin with 44 percent, a statistical draw considering the survey’s 4.5 percent margin of error. Some observers say the Rasmussen polls typically lean toward Republican candidates.

Kristi Noem’s website is here.

This race is a key one for the GOP in capturing a majority  in the House. So, visit her website and send her some coin.

Read the light-hearted and more personal interview of Carly Fiorina here.

SE: Politicians are much maligned in America right now. If you want some love, why not go into the NFL or hip hop?

CF: Because I throw like a girl, and my hip-hop skills are worse than Betty White’s.

But in all seriousness, the last thing I want to do is become a politician. I am doing this because I think our nation is headed in the wrong direction and I think that my experience in job creation can help inform the solutions to our challenges.

I think our government was designed to be comprised of citizens from the real world who took time to serve a term or two in Congress
and then to return to private life. That’s what I think our Founding Fathers intended in establishing a citizen government. But in recent decades, we’ve seen more and more career politicians who become beholden to the special interest groups that fund their campaigns and who are more interested in winning re-election than they are in serving their constituents.

SE: Who would you want to play you in a movie?

CF: Annette Bening.

SE: Your house is going up in flames and you can save one (non-living) thing. What is it?

CF: A painting my mother completed that hangs in our living room.

SE: If you can make one promise to voters, what would it be?

CF: I will never forget whom I work for. I will always want to hear from my employers, the people of California, and I will always want them to be honest with me, whether it’s the good, the bad or the ugly.

And, Carly can have some fun.

Quite a contrast from Babs Boxer, no?

Oh My and this gaffe, reportedly, Jerry Brown’s wife who said the word will not endear him to California voters.

So says the North County Times (San Diego) in their editorial endorsing Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate.

Finally, Barbara Boxer’s air of entitlement —- an arrogance aired for all to see when she upbraided a general testifying before Congress for addressing her as “ma’am” instead of her preferred “senator” —- is intolerable. We need public servants who understand they work for us, not career politicians who believe themselves a modern form of royalty.

Her combination of apparent personal humility and substantive emphasis on growing the economy and creating jobs through the private sector lead us to believe Fiorina would be a far better representative of the people of California than the out-of-touch Boxer.