Tag: senate race

The AP is reporting that John Ensign, the Senator from Nevada who has a problem keeping it in his pants, won’t seek re-election. Looks like we could see another interesting Nevada Senate race next year.

Out of Kentucky comes one of the biggest problems of the secret campaign donors the Supreme Court has allowed: In the bitter U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, a local millionaire has helped launch a barrage of ads attacking the Democratic candidate a candidate who, as the state’s attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman’s nursing home […]

Yup today is primary day here in the Buckeye state. The big race to watch will be the Democratic primary for Republican George Voinovich’s seat. Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher is up against Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The winner will face Republican Rob Portman, who left the house to serve as the U.S. Trade Representative […]

There has been a lot of focus on the Massachusetts Senate race to replace the late Ted Kennedy and some are trying to paint it as a repudiation of President Obama and health care reform. One of the key findings in the new PPP poll released last night was that those planning on voting oppose […]

A new mailer has surfaced in the Massachusetts Senate race: This is absolutely brutal: Massachusetts Dems have dropped a mail piece accusing GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown of wanting hospitals to turn away “all” rape victims. The mail piece — sent over by the Brown campaign — shows pictures of women who are supposed to […]

There has been a lot of polls come out over the past 48 hours showing the Massachusetts special election for Kennedy’s seat was turning a tide and heading towards a possible defeat for Democrats. Now there is a new poll that may give Democrats some breathing room: A new Boston Globe poll shows Martha Coakley […]

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.

Image via Wikipedia What a way to really shrink the size of the RNC tent: First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts. This comes on the heels of a rift in the party that was exposed in the […]

Democrat Mark Begich now leads felon Ted Stevens by 814 votes in the Alaskan Senate race. There are still about 40,000 more ballots to count, which Alaska says will be done over the next week. I guess they are waiting on Todd Palin to bring them in via snow machine.

Not surprisingly, the right side of the blogosphere seems somewhat quiet on the Foley news. There is however a couple of items I do want to bring up. First is this post in Redstate’s comment section: I just posted a blog about this as you were writing your post, apparently, having just seen the Drudge […]