Discriminations (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics gets almost everything right almost all of the time, but I believe he missed a little in his analysis today of What the Voters Told Us Last Night. Here’s what he says they told us: The following points are what we know for certain: 1. The voters of Virginia declared a preference for Bob McDonnell over Creigh Deeds. 2. The voters of New Jersey declared a preference...
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
While there were certainly some great victories yesterday (Kalamazoo, Bill Owens in NY, and hopefully Washington State), it was also a very rough year. While Maine is on all our minds, here in Virginia we’re reeling from the statewide election of some very, very anti-equality candidates. While our heads are hanging low today, it’s important [...] Virginia Election Wrap-Up is a post from...
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Patti Garamendi, the wife, of Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, right, celebrates as her husband receives news that he has been declared the winner in California's 10th Congressional District race (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) While elections locally weren't exactly a topic around town, they were nationally and the outcomes are still relevant to Los Angeles and California. One year after Prop 8, which banned...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Days after the Republican candidate dropped out of the race , Democrat Bill Owens won the special election for the 23rd Congressional District in upstate New York—a seat that had been held by Republicans since the 19th century. The NY Times called it "a setback for national conservatives who heavily promoted a third candidate in what became an intense debate over the direction of the Republican...
FreeColorado.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last year, I argued that the big loser in Colorado's elections was the religious right. Particularly here in the Interior West, Republican candidates who want to ram religious dogmas down people's throats by force of law tend to scare the living hell out of voters, and that's a major reason why Democrats now control all three branches of government in Colorado. The general approach among Colorado Republicans...
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Some of the results are in with a big win in Kalamazoo, Michigan (upholding a LGBT inclusive non-discrimination ordinance) and disappointing losses in the Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. News organizations are also calling New York’s 23rd Congressional district race for Bill Owens, defeating anti-LGBT candidate Doug Hoffman. Counting continues in Maine but sadly those [...] Counting...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Unlike his former boss, former President Bill Clinton , Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said whatever happens in the 23rd district special election today, it is not a referendum on President Obama. "All these national pundits who want to say this is a national referendum on what President Obama has done, I think that's a lot of baloney," Cuomo said. "This is a very particular situation,...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
PINCH HITTER EDITION. ? AR-Sen : A new R2K poll for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America is yet another bad omen for Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln: she's only beating state Sen. Gilbert Baker by a 41-39 margin. ? NC-Sen : An Elon University poll fins GOP Sen. Richard Burr with crappy re-elects (19-42), while the latest Civitas poll shows Burr leading Democrat Elaine...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
AG Andrew Cuomo is weighing in with eleventh-hour endorsements for Democratic candidates at opposite ends of the state today, throwing his support behind Bill Thompson for mayor and Bill Owens in NY-23. Cuomo has been studiously keeping a low profile throughout the 2009 cycle, in part to avoid antagonizing Republicans (or, in Mayor Bloomberg's case, an independent) with whom he would have to work...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Stumping for passage of a TABOR-like ballot initiative in Maine, former Governor Bill Owens had this to say about education funding in Colorado this week: "Our spending per student is in the mid-range of the country. Our results are better than that, our college graduation rate's among the best in the country, and the claim that public education has been devastated is factually incorrect, and...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
After his quick - and lucrative - fundraising trip to New York City, President Obama is on the other side of the Hudson today to campaign for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who is fighting for his political life in a race the White House has deemed a top priority. Obama will appear with Corzine at the Fairleigh Dickinson Hackensack campus. It's the second time he has stumped for the embattled governor...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) President Obama is in town today to meet with the FBI agents credited with stopping a terrorist plot to bomb NYC subways. But that pat on the back at FBI headquarters near City Hall is just the morning's agenda; in the evening it's all about the Benjamins. (Or, rather, the Grover Clevelands .) Tonight the President will speak at a $30,400-per-couple dinner at the Mandarin...
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no experience and too young to know how to do the job.
probably a nice guy but absolutely NO experience to be running a country...at least not this one. Also, spending a lot of money on vaca's and what not...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
In response to questions raised by a liberal group yesterday about freshly declared Senate candidate Jane Norton's paperwork-free history in lobbying, the Colorado Independent made some phone calls: Was Jane Norton a health-industry lobbyist? If so, what did she lobby for, exactly? From 1994 to 1999, Norton headed the lobbying department of Englewood-based Medical Group Management Association, "the...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
? CO-Sen : Did someone feed Bob Beauprez after midnight? Because more and more Republican Senate contenders seem to be hatching in Colorado lately. The newest potential candidate, former Lt. Governor Jane Norton, who served under GOP Gov. Bill Owens in his second term, is "seriously considering" challenging newbie Democrat Michael Bennet, and will "make a decision in 30 days". ?...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
? CT-Sen : Could the GOP field for the Connecticut Senate primary actually grow to six? We all know about ex-Rep. Rob Simmons, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri, ex-Ambassador Tom Foley, and Paulist economist Peer Schiff. But now two others are interested: businessman Jack Orchuli, who lost big-time to Chris Dodd in 2004, and businesswoman Linda McMahon . If the name sounds vaguely familiar, that's because...
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