Tag Archives: 2010 Mid-Term Elections

Reid and Angle disagree — about everything

LAS VEGAS — Sixty minutes, two candidates and not a single moment of agreement. Instead, Republican Sharron Angle taunted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to “man up” Thursday night in their only debate of a close, caustic and costly race. Speaking more softly, Reid called her extreme, an ally of the special interests and advocate [...]

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Russ Carnahan Flinches, Admits He’s In Deep Trouble

24TH STATE.COM Russ Carnahan just sent out a desperate plea for money. In a D+7 district, Carnahan knows he’s in deep trouble. But don’t take my word for it.  Take his. From: “Russ Carnahan ” <Russ@russcarnahan.com> Date: October 11, 2010 9:35:42 AM CDT To: Subject: I’m not kidding Reply-To: Russ@russcarnahan.com We have 22 days left [...]

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After 28 Years, a Congressman on the Ropes

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Published: October 12, 2010 This year, Mr. Spratt faces not only a potential anti-incumbent wave but an aggressive challenge from Mick Mulvaney, 43, a state senator who is riding that wave on a Tea Party surfboard. At the same time, Mr. Spratt’s presence at events is somewhat diminished by his Parkinson’s [...]

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Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman spar over ‘whore’ quote in California debate

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN POLITICO SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – It took about 30 minutes for gubernatorial rivals Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown on Tuesday night to get at what debate moderator Tom Brokaw called the “100,000-pound gorilla in the room.” Brokaw let the Sacramento statehouse candidates duke it out first over tax and budget issues before [...]

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Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

By Mark Halperin CNN/TIME Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November’s elections. With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, [...]

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Nancy Pelosi: Prognosticator or Pinhead?

I can’t wait to hear Madame Speaker’s first interview after the 40 foot political tsunami rolls ashore Nov. 2 and sweeps her and the Democratic Party three miles inland. I wonder how she will try to spin her responses in the interview reposted below. I wonder how she will handle going from one of the [...]

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Jerry Brown or friend calls calling says Meg Whitman is a Whore audio video

I heard the venerable Charles Krauthammer say on FOXNEWS a few days ago, very much tongue-in-cheek, that the last 30 days before an election is “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” You can bet your last dollar that the mud-slingers will be slinging it with glee and abandon as we approach what Sean Hannity [...]

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Midwest Democrats Rip Senate Foes

By ALEXANDER BURNS POLITICO Three Midwestern Democrats launched biting ads against GOP Senate candidates Tuesday, targeting the Republicans with variations on this message: My opponent is an unethical insider who just can’t be trusted. Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold are all struggling to overcome their [...]

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The Fired Congress

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE In December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren’t allowed back on the premises out of fear they might [...]

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Blue Dog Democrats are Really Lap Dog Democrats

Chris Chocola, who heads up the CLUB FOR GROWTH said in today’s Wall St. Journal that the so called “Blue Dog Democrats” who are alleged to be feisty fiscal conservatives/moderates that don’t march in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi, voted with her 80% of the time in this Congress. I just wanted to point that out [...]

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