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29 Oct 2010 21:49

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Politics: Third party candidacy at seventy-five year high

  • 443 third party candidates running for the House of Representatives this year
  • 1935 last time this many third party candidates ran for the House source
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29 Oct 2010 21:26

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Politics: Breitbart blog injects more fun into AK Senate race

  • If ya can’t beat ’em, drown ’em in fake candidates. After defeating Lisa Murkowski in the primary, Joe Miller was a shoe-in to be the next Senator from Alaska. But then Murkowski announced a write-in campaign, and started gaining traction in the polls. So, Miller supporters did what any rational base would do: they flooded the list of write-in candidates (provided to voters at the polls) with as many names as possible, so that Murkowski’s name would be harder to spot. The effort, which originated on Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Government” blog, worked, and now there are over 100 “official” write-in candidates (many of them readers of “Big Government”). This race just gets better and better. source
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29 Oct 2010 20:28

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Politics: Charlie Crist officially burns bridges with GOP

  • YES Crist will caucus with Democrats if elected source
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28 Oct 2010 15:53

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Politics, U.S.: Cost-benefit ratio: Meg Whitman spends high, polls low

  • Everybody knows that the California Governor’s race is really, really expensive. Meg Whitman has dropped  $162 million so far on her bid, with Jerry Brown spending an only-modest-by-comparison $25.5 million. However, Whitman’s spending (including $22 million this month alone) hasn’t been able to buy her a lead in the polls. The latest Public Policy Poll has Brown leading by 11 points, 53-42. This made us wonder: how much has each candidate spent for each percentage point they hold in the polls? The results were somewhat lopsided:
  • $481k the price Jerry Brown pays for one percentage point in the polls. Not a paltry sum, to be sure.
  • $3.8m the price Meg Whitman pays for one point in the polls. That’s eight times as much. And she’s still down! source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

28 Oct 2010 10:03

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Politics: Meg Whitman’s money may not win California’s governor’s race

  • 49% of folks plan to give Jerry Brown another whirl as governor
  • 39% plan to take Meg Whitman’s eBay know-how into the governor’s chair
  • 12% plan to vote for Arnold again even though he’s not running source
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25 Oct 2010 16:32

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Politics: Something smells fishy about this race

  • you’ve gotta give him points for originality. In the race for California’s 47th Congressional seat, GOP candidate Van Tran has found a novel way to create a negative association with his opponent, Loretta Sanchez. Tran recently sent out a mailer with a picture of Sanchez, accompanied by a pungent scratch-and-sniff pad. According to a GOP aid, it’s “a horrible odor–like a combination of 5 or 6 of the worst possible scents you can imagine.” A dirty tactic? Perhaps. But certainly a creative one. source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

25 Oct 2010 15:54

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Politics: Conservative groups dwarfing liberals in undisclosed funds

  • $75
    million     anonymous donations to conservative/Republican campaigns this cycle
  • $10
    million     anonymous donations to liberal/Democratic campaigns this cycle source
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23 Oct 2010 23:17

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Politics: Nate Silver confirms: Dems favored to lose House, keep Senate

  • 80% Republicans’ chances of winning back the House of Representatives, according to polling guru Nate Silver
  • 18% chance that they’ll win the Senate source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

19 Oct 2010 17:22

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Politics, U.S.: Clinton holds more sway over Dems than Obama

  • 48% of Democrats like a candidate more if Barack Obama endorses them
  • 53% of Democrats are persuaded by a Bill Clinton endorsement source
  • » They don’t call him the Big Dog for nothing. He’s been out of office twelve years, yet Democratic voters trust his judgment more than that of their official party leader. Clinton’s been in high demand this cycle, and luckly for Democrats, he’s been more than happy to rise to the occasion. The 42nd President has been campaigning for Democrats left and right, and many believe it was his endorsement of Blanche Lincoln that enabled her to defeat Bill Halter in the Arkansas Senate primary. Curiously, there hasn’t been a corresponding demand for George W. Bush on the Republican side.
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

19 Oct 2010 15:19

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Politics, U.S.: GOP candidate articulates nuanced views on foreign policy

  • “My philosophy has always been very simple: We win, you lose.
  • Senate Candidate John Raese (R-WV) •  Discussing foreign policy in the West Virginia Senate debate. It sounds more like something you’d hear from a gang of schoolyard bullies than from a candidate seeking a Senate seat.  source
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