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18 Oct 2010 15:30

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Politics, U.S.: Joe Miller bleeding support in Alaska

  • 7% decrease in Joe Miller’s support over last month source
  • » For a while, Joe Miller had it in the bag. But things have changed. It started when incumbent Lisa Murkowski, having lost the Republican primary to Miller, announced that she’d run a write-in campaign. Polls then began showing erosion of Miller’s popularity, with his negatives increasing by 6% in the last month. Then, news broke last night that Miller’s private security detail handcuffed and detained a reporter at a town hall meeting. Now, Nate Silver says that “any ordering of the top three candidates is possible.” This is a race to watch on November 2nd.
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

17 Oct 2010 22:04

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Politics, U.S.: Sharron Angle spends a lot, raises a bit more

  • $14 million amount raised by Sharron Angle’s Senate campaign last quarter. Sounds like a lot, right?
  • $12 million amount spent on fundraising by Sharron Angle’s campaign in the same quarter. Whoops! source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

12 Oct 2010 11:23

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Politics, U.S.: Shocker: Paladino igoring advisor’s advice

  • Based on his anti-gay rant, any advice that I’m giving this guy is no longer having any effect.
  • Carl Paladino’s advisor, Roger Stone • On Carl Paladino. Also in the article: Stone has a “very large” tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back. source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

09 Oct 2010 17:51

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Politics, U.S.: Hey, the deficit’s actually getting smaller! Yay!

  • $125 billion decrease in the deficit over the last year source
  • » Of course, if you listen to a lot of conservative candidates this year, you probably wouldn’t know it. For example, Alaska’s Joe Miller proclaims, “the federal budget deficit was $1.4 trillion last year and is on track to be that, or more, this year.” Then again, Miller has already proved himself to be not the most responsible voice on fiscal issues, so perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Miller’s financial qualms aside, perhaps keep this number in mind next time a Republican decries Obama’s reckless government spending.
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

08 Oct 2010 03:21

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Politics: Parallels: Obama’s careening to midterms just like Ronald Reagan

  • reaganHaving inherited a recession and sporting a 10.4 percent jobless rate, the GOP managed to only lose 24 seats in the House and hold a 54-seat majority in the Senate during the 1982 midterms.
  • obama Under similar circumstances – and a much lower jobless rate – many analysts are predicting that Dems will lose the House and may lose the Senate come November. How about that for parallels? source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

06 Oct 2010 17:12

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Politics, U.S.: National Rifle Association endorses Dems, angers Repubs

  • 14 Democrats in competitive districts endorsed by the NRA source
  • » The National Rifle Association normally breaks for the Republicans. However, they have an endorsement policy that’s giving insurgent GOP candidates a headache: if the incumbent and challenger in an election are equally gun-friendly, the NRA will endorse the incumbent. The GOP hopes to win seats from moderate Democrats in conservative districts; however, since those Democrats are incumbents who support gun rights, they’ll be the ones receiving the NRA’s support. The result? Republican challengers who could benefit most from the NRA’s endorsement won’t be getting it.
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

05 Oct 2010 14:06

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Politics: US Senate candidate denies being a witch

  • Christine O’Donnell is just like you! At least, that’s the theme of her newest ad. She’s had a rough time since winning the Delaware Senate primary, with a seemingly endless supply of self-incriminating quotes surfacing week after week. With her latest ad, she clears things up: just because you dabble into witchcraft, that doesn’t automatically make you a witch. Our feeling is that as soon as a politician has to speak the phrase, “I’m not a witch” in order to improve their PR, that politician probably isn’t going to get elected. source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink
 

04 Oct 2010 15:18

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Politics: Despite enthusiasm gap, lots of Dems donating to re-election effort

  • $16 million raised by the Democratic National Committee in September
  • 2002 last time the DNC raised this much during the midterms source
  • » The DNC is in charge of re-electing Democrats. Although conventional wisdom says that Democrats are in big trouble this November, that hasn’t stopped them from pulling in record amounts of cash for their national re-election effort. Fun fact: 80% of the money came from low-dollar donors online and through the mail, as opposed to high-priced fund-raising dinners, George Soros, or anti-American communists intent on keeping Obama in power. The Republicans’ counterpart organization, the RNC, has not yet revealed its September totals.
Posted by Seth Millstein • 1 Comment • Permalink

03 Oct 2010 20:24

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Politics: Newsweek thinks that “angry voters” are pretty overhyped

  • 23% of all voters describe themselves as “angry”
  • 42% support the pretty darn angry Tea Party
  • 52% of angry voters identify as Republicans
  • 14% are Democrats; 29 percent are indies source
  • » Other things to note: Is this just a hype issue? That’s Newsweek’s conclusion. They say that the chances of angry voters voting in the 2010 elections is roughly the same as normal voters, and there’s a lot more of those. And they note that Obama’s approval rating, currently at 48 percent. is way above where both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were during their 2006 and 1994 midterms, respectively.
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

28 Sep 2010 15:59

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Politics, U.S.: GOP big-wigs pull the plug on Rand Paul’s ads

  • yesterday For the first time, Senate polls in Kentucky found Democrat Jack Conway within striking distance of Tea Party favorite Rand Paul.
  • today The National Republican Senatorial Committee has pulled all advertising from Kentucky airwaves. Surely, just a coincidence. source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink
 
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