The Other McCain

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System Shock: Straightforward, Positive Campaign Ad for Virginia’s Dianne Blais

by Smitty (via Allahpundit on Twitter) Allahpundit teases with the question of whether this is the greatest campaign ad ever. I suspect that such an award would go to one with maximal impact, which would probably be a Ladd Ehlinger outing. That said, the notion of a simple collection of jaunty couplets delivered by the […]

VIDEO: Obama in His Own Words

“You see, you see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child […]

Radtke Reports 2nd Quarter Fundraising Numbers for Virginia Senate Campaign

Jamie Radtke is the Tea Party candidate in next year’s Republican primary for the Virginia seat being vacated by the retirement of one-term Democratic Sen. Jim Webb. Her biggest obstacle is overcoming the GOP Establishment’s support for former Sen. George Allen. While many conservatives know and admire Allen personally, Radtke’s grassroots campaign offers an opportunity […]

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz E-Mails Me

Once you sign up for any liberal e-mail list, you’re going to get e-mails from all of them, and this one came from the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee: Friend — My first campaign made me an organizer. Every day, through a hot Florida summer, I knocked on doors and asked my neighbors for […]

CA-36: Special Election Night HQ; UPDATE: Democrat Hahn Wins

UPDATE 11:40 p.m. Pacific (2:40 a.m. Eastern): Democrat Janice Hahn won Tuesday’s special election in California’s 36th Congressional District, defeating Republican businessman Craig Huey. With 100% of precincts reporting, Hahn had 41,585 votes (54.6%) to Huey’s 34,636 (45.4%). After a long delay in the ballot count — frankly, I nodded off — the results went […]

Carly Fiorina Will Help John Cornyn Guarantee Republican Defeat in 2012

Democrats must be high-fiving each other over this news: National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced that businesswoman and civic leader Carly Fiorina will join the organization as a Vice Chair for the 2012 election cycle. Serving alongside Cornyn and NRSC Vice Chairman U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Fiorina […]

Democrat Janice Hahn’s Mother Dies on Eve of CA-36 Special Election
UPDATE: Poll Shows ‘Obama Fatigue’?

Los Angeles Times: Ramona Hahn, the wife of the late county Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and the mother of both former Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn and City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, died Monday at the age of 86. Ramona Hahn’s death came toward the end of Janice Hahn’s race for Congress in Tuesday’s extremely contentious […]

MoveOn.org Threatens Obama: ‘I Won’t Ever Give His Campaign Another Dime’

As we reported yesterday, Obama reportedly offered to trade cuts to Social Security in return for Republicans agreeing to close a few tax loopholes. Democrats are desperately trying to spin this, as Talking Points Memo reports today, but some of Obama’s key “progressive” supporters are threatening to boycott his 2012 re-election: Dear MoveOn member, News […]

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