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There are still some bugs with this thing, but we're close to squashing them. You can now embed whatever maps you want from the Daily Kos Political Scoreboard. In this case, I've pulled the 2000 map of the Nebraska Senate race, in which Democrat Ben Nelson narrowly defeated his Republican opponent. Go ahead and mouseover the counties to get additional data. Pretty cool, huh? The scoreboard features...
The plan: To win Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, or Omaha, so if the nightmare scenario happens, Obama wins 270-268. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has even taken to calling the city "Obamaha" these days. Earlier this month, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., did two events for Obama -- one with veterans, one with a women's group -- back in his former home state; Kerrey says Obama can win there, though...
Why is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin expected to campaign in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday night? Because there is a highly plausible scenario involving battleground states -- 19 plausible scenarios, in fact, according to the Obama campaign -- where the day after...
E&E Daily has the story: Moderate Senate Democrats with close ties to business and organized labor are aiming to take charge of the global warming debate next year. The “Gang of 16″ represents a critical cross-section of industries and interest groups, including labor, agriculture, coal and manufacturing, setting up an intriguing political dynamic for the next administration [...]
From Sen. Webb's office. At 11:00am today, Senator Webb and eight additional Democratic Senators-Harkin, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Lincoln, Boxer, Feinstein, Salazar, and Klobuchar-sent the attached letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seeking assurances that any agreement being negotiated contain specific provisions to protect taxpayers and our financial system. The provisions include: (1)...
From a letter to Pelosi, Reid, McConnell, and Boehner (Republicans marked in italics): We write to urge you to include in any legislation funding federal purchases of troubled assets a provision creating a Special Inspector General to oversee the emergency efforts of the Treasury Department…. This proposal is based on the Special Inspector General appointed to investigate [...]
The National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea that has the potential to become a tropical depression or storm.
In 2006 Scott Kleeb ran against far right Republican closet queen Adrian Smith in the largest -- like 75% of the state -- and most Republican (R+24!!!) district in Nebraska. In a district that gave Bush 75% of its vote in 2004 (while rewarding the GOP congressional incumbent with 87%), Scott managed to astound political observers with 45% of the vote. People in the ultra conservative 3rd district liked...
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. Chairman Rick Wagoner told Congress today that $25 billion in direct federal loans for the auto industry would be a "tremendous help" in meeting tougher efficiency rules, and denied the request equaled a bailout for Detroit's automakers.
And deservedly so. While deceptively claiming to open up the American coasts to oil and natural gas exploration and drilling they are really a vehicle for business as usual handouts to special interests. When the gang of 10 is broken down into its parts the list of senators is the usual list of [...]
The menacing storm that devastated parts of the Turks and Caicos overnight and roared into the Bahamas on Sunday forced meteorologists to issue a hurricane watch for the Florida Keys.
Florida's Governor is urging people not to relax their guard as Hurricane Ike churns in the Caribbean even as the storm continues to take an increasingly southern path. At a news briefing in Tallahassee Sunday, state officials urged people, especially residents of the Keys under an evacuation order, to continue to see Ike as a danger and threat.
Congress will come back from summer recess, and immediately consider energy legislation. These bills, which would allow offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf as a supposed response to high gasoline prices, also contain massive taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear power industry. Introduced a month ago, the “New [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist reminded Floridians at a briefing Wednesday that the state is in a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches, the third tropical storm to threaten the state in three weeks. The governor urged people to "be...
