The Other McCain

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Groan: Murkowski as Write-In?

There’s no chance she could actually win — how many voters can spell “Murkowski”? — so this would be a pure spoiler move: Sen. Lisa Murkowski is strongly considering mounting a November write-in campaign to keep her seat and could make an announcement as soon as tomorrow, according to a source with knowledge of the […]

Your All-Dan-Riehl Daily Delaware Republican Senate Primary Update

Dan Riehl has been been on the warpath against Mike Castle and Castle’s “conservative” supporters: Castle’s “F” rating from the NRA. Linking Mark Levin’s latest takedown. Spanking Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff. Linking Melissa Clouthier’s takedown. Spanking NRO’s Jonah Goldberg. Highlighting Castle’s support for an Obama-backed bill to regulate campaign advertising. Defenestrating NRO’s Jim Geraghty. And finally, Dan links Tammy […]

Lisa’s LP ‘Lifeboat’ Bid?

In the comments of yesterday’s post about Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s continuing push for the Alaska Libertarian Party nomination, commenter “Carl” offered a theory that libertarian blogger Thomas Knapp finds sensible: What she’s looking for is a lifeboat — a nice, lucrative job as a corporate lobbyist, VP of a “defense” contractor firm, something like that that keeps her […]

Texas Burning

Charges of vote fraud in the Lone Star State: On Tuesday, August 24, Harris County’s tax assessor-collector, Leo Vasquez, held a press conference in which he detailed what he called systematic and organized voter registration fraud across the county. . . . What happened next is what threatens everything. In the overnight/early morning hours of Saturday, August […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Murkowski Meets Personally With Alaska LP Officials UPDATE: Bitney, Halcro Behind Push

Alaska Republican sources confirm the report by Eric Dondero that Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski had lunch in Anchorage today with Libertarian Party senatorial candidate Dave Haase and state LP chairman Scott Kohlhaas. One source said that when Haase was asked about the meeting afterwards, he indicated that he had made no decision about Murkowski’s effort to […]

Weigel on Delaware

Dave Weigel is a native of Delaware and has a feature at Slate about the Senate campaign between Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell. He explains last week’s onslaught of negative attacks on O’Donnell: When she declined to stand aside for Castle, who’s been eying an open Senate seat for years, the party ignored her. It […]

Labor Day Is Over . . .

. . . marking the official end of “Recovery Summer”: (Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll.) Meanwhile, there’s good news and bad news: The good news is, the media have identified three endangered Democrat incumbents in Virginia. The bad news: Jim Moran isn’t one of them. Don’t be dismayed, however. Smitty keeps pounding hard for Patrick Murray, whose […]

Glenn Wilson vs. the Mob

I know nothing about Glenn Wilson, an independent candidate in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District, but he was certainly smart to get Ladd Ehlinger Jr. to produce this memorable campaign video: Update (Smitty): Stacy, either my head ‘sploded, or Don Dino, up whose nose the viewer nearly crawls, is Evan Sayet, after whose Heritage talk two years […]

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