Last night John Boehner won his primary with 85% of the vote. A win for Boehner was all but guaranteed, but what makes it interesting is that the two challengers Boehner faced gained a cumulated total of 15% of the votes. These were two people who essentially did no campaigning at all and in a […]
Last week news broke that Sen. Richard Shelby had placed a hold on almost all of President Obama’s nominees in lieu of getting funding for some of his pork projects. Now he has retreated: Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation of about 70 government appointees nominated by President Barack Obama, […]
One of the staunchest bill backers out there seems to be getting fed up with President Obama. After summing up President Obama’s statement today on the future of health care reform as, “Run away, run away!”, Krugman finishes with this: Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House […]
From Think Progress: The Baucus bill is the worst piece of healthcare legislation I’ve seen in 30 years. In fact, it’s a $60 billion giveaway to the health insurance industry every year. It was written by healthcare lobbyists, so that’s not a surprise. It’s an outrage. Now those are some harsh words, and I mean […]
Yesterday we saw Elizabeth Dole’s attempt at painting challenger Kay Hagan’s faith by impersonating her voice to make it sound as though she was saying she don’t believe in God. Well today Kay Hagan fires back and even brings up some biblical facts to show how Dole sinned.
This is awesome news: Sen. Joe Lieberman, under fire from activists in his own party, has lost ground to his challenger and is narrowly trailing him for the first time in their race for the Democratic nomination, a new poll released Thursday shows. Businessman Ned Lamont had support from 51 percent and Lieberman from 47 […]
With 11% of the precincts reporting, Republican Ken Blackwell has a 10 percent lead over challenger Jim Petro. The Democrat primary is not as close. Ted Strickland has a 54% lead over Bryan Flannery. This is actually a good sign for the Democrats as their is a stronger rally behind a single candidate on that […]