Coakley is the most favored to win against the Republican next month: Attorney General Martha Coakley has defeated three other candidates to win the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. On the Republican side, State Sen. Scott Brown defeated attorney Jack E. Robinson.
I just love my local politics, especially from the Republican side of things. There is always some new controversy coming up. The latest involves the county chair: Butler County Republican Party Chairman Tom Ellis is being sued by his own brother for allegedly defrauding him and his mother for more than $500,000, court records show. […]
There is no argument that when it comes to our politicians and their little sexcapades we have a double standard in this nation – a standard clearly divided amongst party lines. Take John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Elliot Spitzer or Jim McGreevey. These four Democrats suffered severely for their extramarital affairs. One was impeached, two were […]
Howard Dean is now out as the head of the DNC and now we got Tim Kaine poised to take over the party. I think Kaine is an excellent pick. He has great fund raising potential, and it might help keep Virginia blue. But over on the Republican side, things are more interesting. It looks […]
Right now Clinton is in the lead with 783 delegates. 590 of those are pledged with 193 being super delegates. Obama has 709 with 603 pledged and 106 super delegates. Moral of that story? Super delegates are deciding this race, not the voters. On the Republican side: McCain 559 Romney 265 Huckabee 169 Paul 16
But you won’t hear the media talking about it. Instead they focus on the Democrats going negative. Steve Benen has all the details of how McCain is attacking Romney now.
There was a story in the Politico yesterday that didn’t get much attention, but seeks to tell the GOP’s biggest problem this year. Ten months before Election Day, Republicans are facing a threat that spells serious trouble for GOP candidates from the top of the ticket down to the most obscure races. The problem is […]
From TPM: A new Quinnipiac poll in Florida shows a four-way dead heat on the Republican side, much like the Rasmussen poll also out this morning. Here are the numbers, compared to the last Quinnipiac poll from mid-December: McCain 22% (+9) Giuliani 20% (-8) Huckabee 19% (-2) Romney 19% (-1) Thompson 7% (-1) Paul 5% […]
Lieberman swore up and down during his campaign that he would not switch parties. Now he isn’t sounding so sure. Editor and Publisher has a preview of an article slated for tomorrow’s Time magazine: “Independent” Sen. Joe Liebeman receives a mini-profile titled “What Joe Wants,” a key question since he is “the Senate’s one-man tipping […]
The Republicans try to paint corruption as a bi-partisan problem, but the majority of the problems we hear about come from the right side of the aisle: Federal investigators probing Rep. Jerry Lewis (news, bio, voting record)’ ties to lobbyists are looking into a land deal that put nearly 41 pristine acres in the congressman’s […]