The Other McCain

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The Most Crucial County Council Election in 5,000 Years of Human Civilization

The primary is tomorrow, and it is impossible to overstate the importance of Mike Calpino’s campaign in Wicomico County, Maryland. Mike is a visionary statesman who is destined for greatness. That’s Mike and his teenage daughter Rachel at yesterday’s 9/12 Taxpayers March on Washington, which sort of explains the “visionary statesman” part. You see, Mike […]

Polls Are Not Predictions

Paul Mirengoff of Powerline — a nice guy, whom I’ve met a few times — defends himself against Mark Levin’s criticism over the Delaware GOP Senate primary. Rather than to get into the middle of that, let me pull out a few phrases from Mirengoff’s post as illustrative of a more general dispute: I then argued that, […]

Delaware Senate Primary Update: NRA, DeMint Endorse Christine O’Donnell

Once Sarah Palin endorsed, the avalanche was on: The National Rifle Association endorsed conservative commentator Christine O’Donnell Friday in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary.  The Tea Party-backed O’Donnell is looking to upset Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) on Tuesday. Via Memeorandum and also CNN: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint announced Friday night his endorsement of the Tea Party-endorsed […]

Delaware Republican Party Files FEC Complaint Against Christine O’Donnell UPDATE: RNC Robocalls for Castle?

What kind of campaign does the GOP establishment wage against challengers? Scorched earth: The Republican Party of Delaware has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing one of its own Senate candidates of illegally collaborating with the Tea Party Express. Attorneys for the state party asked the FEC to launch an immediate and […]

It’s Official: Lisa the Loser

Anchorage Daily News: Final vote is in The Alaska Division of Elections counted the last absentee ballots Wednesday. The final vote in the Aug. 24 Republican primary for U.S. Senate was 55,847 for Joe Miller and 53,834 for Lisa Murkowski. Erika Bolstad and Sean Cockerman also report: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky pledged […]

PALIN ENDORSES O’DONNELL!

MIRACLE! Dave Weigel reports that Sarah Palin just called into Sean Hannity‘s radio show to officially endorse Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware GOP Senate primary. Answered prayer! Is it too little, too late? UPDATE: From O’Donnell’s Twitter feed: UPDATE II: Matt Lewis notes: “So far, Palin has not commented on her Facebook page or Twitter […]

Establishment Turns Against Murkowski

Now that Joe Miller has won the Alaska GOP Senate primary, the Republican establishment is his friend: National Republican Senatorial Committee senior adviser and veteran GOP strategist Terry Nelson flew to Alaska Wednesday night to assist Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller’s campaign . . . Nelson is going up to meet Miller and his campaign […]

Meg Whitman’s November Landslide

This is the safest political prediction of the year. Not because Meg Whitman is all that, you understand. But not even Californians are so stupidly liberal as to elect Jerry Brown, who recently announced his solution to the state’s fiscal catastrophe: “I have a plan; I’ll tell you after the election.” The California GOP could nominate Charles Manson […]

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