Living right next to Jean Schmidt’s district, I have followed her congressional career rather closely, which brought me to a conclusion a few years ago. Schmidt appears to be the type that thinks she can do anything she wants and not be held accountable for it. She is by far one of the more “rogue” […]
Looks like the Republican attempts at not counting all votes just got squashed: Al Franken received a potentially major boost towards his hopes of becoming Senator on Friday, when Minnesota state officials ruled that absentee ballots rejected because of clerical or administrative errors should, in the end, be counted. The decision by the state canvassing […]
John McCain has now won Missouri, breaking their 48 year streak: McCain’s edging out of Obama in Missouri breaks the state’s bellwether streak in which Missourians correctly picked the presidential candiate in every election dating back to the 1960 contest. Missouri got it wrong in 1956, voting for the Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson, who lost […]
A new SUSA poll has Michele “McCarthy” Bachmann trailing her Democratic challenger 47%-43%. I guess the people of Minnesota don’t like their Representative trying to revive Joe McCarthy.
Kay Hagan, Dole’s Democratic Challenger, has finally jumped ahead in the race and now holds a six point lead over Dole. As recently as July, Dole had a double point lead. Hopefully this is a sign of better things to come in the polls.
Welcome Steve Driehaus to the race for OH-01: Republican Rep. Steve Chabot survived a serious Democratic challenge in the tough political environment of 2006, but it appears he will not get a break from tough competition in the next round. Democratic state Rep. Steve Driehaus, whose potential already is being touted by national party strategists, […]
Rasmussen is now reporting that Sherrod Brown has taken the lead from Mike DeWine for the OH-Senate race: Here we go again. For the second time in three consecutive election polls of Ohio’s competitive race for U.S. Senate, the Democratic challenger has edged ahead of the Republican incumbent. Despite the seven-point edge Senator Mike DeWine […]
I just received this little piece of good news in my email from the Ohio Democratic Party: Cincinnati, Ohio – A poll released today shows Rep. Jean Schmidt tied with Dr. Victoria Wulsin, her Democratic challenger, in their race for Congress. A mere 33% of likely voters in Ohio’s 2nd District approve of Schmidt’s job […]
This is no April Fool’s day joke. Zogby has their latest tracker poll up for the Senate and Gubernatorial races on the Wall Street Journal’s site and things are looking really good for the Democrats. First off let’s cover the Senate races. Below is a picture of how things are starting to look in the […]
Today the Washington Post published an article that should send a greater message of hope to the Democrats. “For GOP, Election Anxiety Mounts” talks about numerous Republican Senate candidates opting not to run next year. This of course is making the Republicans a little nervous. Prominent Republicans have passed up races in North Dakota and […]