If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve hopefully come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days and this week’s a big one. This week reflects a lot of post-convention numbers, many of […]
Much was made, with good cause, of John McCain’s repudiation of the Swiftboat hacks’ twisted attacks on John Kerry’s military heroism. McCain has been going above and beyond to help Bush on the campaign trail lately, but even he couldn’t stand by and allow such a slanderous attack to go by uncorrected, even if that […]
The RNC’s Ed Gillespie wants everyone to know that his party is making great strides with diversity. As proof, he’s pointing to this year’s delegate list. Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, former U.S. Treasurer and 2004 California delegate Rosario Marin, and Maryland Lt. Gov. and 2004 delegate Michael Steele today announced a 70 percent […]
Of the three institutions up for grabs this year, the House has always seemed the least likely for Dem success. It’s not because the party isn’t fielding great candidates, or because the GOP has done a bang-up job of running the chamber, but with redistricting schemes having stacked the cards in the Republicans’ favor, it’s […]
Just one day after launching a twisted ad campaign, one of the Swiftboat Hacks for Bush’s key allies has jumped ship. [Y]esterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry’s former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ”terrible mistake” […]
Alan Keyes, to no one’s surprise, is going to enter the Illinois Senate race. Maryland conservative Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential contender and talk-show host, has agreed to accept the nomination as the Illinois GOP nominee for Senate and plans a public rollout for his campaign on Sunday, several Republican sources said Thursday. “He […]
And speaking of overplaying the Sandy Berger non-story, I almost forgot to mention how ridiculous House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) has become. It’s reached the point in which parody is no longer possible because reality is too absurd. About a month ago, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) took Davis to task for his […]
Federal investigations can be funny things. Some (say, Whitewater) are kept going indefinitely to embarrass the accused and keep a controversy fresh in the minds of voters. Other investigations are the mirror opposite, at least in terms of motivations. They can be Energizer Bunny-like in duration, but the delays are intended to help the accused. […]
Like Tapped’s Nick Confessore, I can’t begin to understand why Sandy Berger’s inadvertent removal of some photocopies from the National Archives prompted a media frenzy, but Sen. Richard Shelby’s (R-Ala.) leaking of classified information barely gets a blip. Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when […]
Remember James L. Hart, the racist/lunatic running for the GOP nomination for Congress in Tennessee? He won yesterday’s “primary.” An unabashed racist will represent the Republican Party in the November election for a congressional seat after a write-in candidate failed to derail his effort. With 86 percent of the primary vote counted, write-in candidate Dennis […]