Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * In the final statewide poll before voters head to the polls in Connecticut, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) appears to be poised to win another term. A new Quinnipiac poll shows the incumbent […]
DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel is keenly aware of some very recent national polls showing the Dems’ generic-ballot lead shrinking. He told the NYT, “It’s inevitable that there would be some tightening in the end.” Emanuel added, however, “This is making me nervous.” Indeed, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press released a poll […]
Alas, the story late last week about the Bush administration accidentally publishing nuclear secrets in Arabic on the Internet did not cause quite the stir that I had hoped for. Perhaps if John Kerry had told a joke about it, and left out a word, the story could have received wall-to-wall coverage on TV. That […]
The WaPo had an interesting item over the weekend noting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s busy schedule of late. That makes sense — there’s a war in Iraq, the North Korean crisis is simmering to a boil, there’s a major transition underway at the United Nations, and there are ample challenges that require the attention […]
There’s a line in the movie “Serenity” in which Jayne Cobb, who’s something of a mercenary, explains a bit about his philosophy on shooting people. “Hell, I’ll kill a man in a fair fight,” Jayne said, “or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight.” We’d all like to think that there’s some nobility […]