Category Archives: Take Back Congress

Russ Carnahan Survives a Tight Race….Martin Refuses to Concede, Sites “Irregularities”

UPDATED with Martin statement on close race. U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, survived a bruising re-election battle Tuesday. Unofficial state totals posted early today gave Carnahan the victory. “What a year and what a night,” Carnahan told supporters around 11:20 p.m. “The good news is we are ahead and are going to win.” But [...]

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Gallup Poll Points to GOP Rout

By RICHARD E. COHEN | In a compelling sign that the Republican tide on Tuesday will produce a historic sweep in the House, the final pre-election poll by the Gallup Organization gave the GOP a 55 percent to 40 percent lead over Democrats among likely voters in its generic congressional ballot test. The commanding 15-point [...]

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Ed Martin Campaign: Arnold Days Parade

From the Ed Martin for Congress Campaign We have had a fantastic week of campaigning! Russ Carnahan’s desperate ploys to sling mud has only served to motivate our volunteers to redouble their efforts. In Arnold, our Arnold Days parade was a hit, with over 100 people marching, handing out yard signs, bumper stickers and literature [...]

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More than a thumpin’….The truth about next Tuesday

NEW YORK POST By: John Podhoretz In a week, Americans go to the polls. But it might as well be happening today. For — barring major news events or extraordinarily damaging revelations about individual candidates that cause probable voters to rethink their choices in unprecedented fashion — the 2010 cake is baked, it’s out of [...]

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Independents Siding with GOP

POLITICO By JAMES HOHMANN & JIM VANDEHEI  Republicans are on the verge of broad wins next week for one big reason: independent voters are ready to boot Democrats from office, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll. Expressing deep dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policies and performance, independents have increasingly sided with conservatives in [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Romney, top aides, to lunch with K St. today

Mitt Romney and two of his senior aides are holding a small lunch  in Washington today to brief GOP lobbyists and potential 2012 supporters on what the former governor and his PAC have done for candidates this cycle. “Spencer Zwick, Finance Director and Matt Rhoades, Executive Director will join the Governor at lunch to give an update [...]

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There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’

It’s essential for limited government. By: James Capretta   NRO Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic. After decades of legislators’ piling countless new programs on top of old ones, and two years of the most intense [...]

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Barbara Boxer in closet match of her career vs. Carly Fiorina

By:  DARREN SAMUELSOHN     POLITICO LOS ANGELES — California’s Senate slugfest has turned into a battle of extremes as both candidates play to their political bases while still trying to entice support from the moderate middle. Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer’s campaign is using red-meat rhetoric against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, calling her way too conservative for [...]

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Blunt, Carnahan on attack again in Missouri debate

KMOV.COM LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s leading Senate candidates clashed Friday over the economy, with Republican Roy Blunt calling the economic stimulus “a huge waste of money” that benefited a business run by Democratic hopeful Robin Carnahan’s brother. Carnahan said the stimulus had nothing to do with her brother’s wind farm and added that [...]

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