Mar 6 2010

-17 and Dropping

Democrats should think twice about attaching any hope of Obama coattails - Dear Leader has none - evidenced by the latest Rasmussen presidential tracking index:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two [...]

Nov 3 2009

Fred Thompson Draws Larger Crowd than Joe Biden Does in NY-23

Watertown, N.Y.
On Monday night at the agricultural society exhibition hall in town, former Senator Fred Thompson and conservative congressional candidate Doug Hoffman held a rally that appeared to be at least 50 percent larger than Joe Biden’s and Democratic candidate Bill Owens’s rally this morning (the New York Times notes the Thompson-Hoffman crowd was “significantly [...]

Nov 2 2009

NY-23: New York Race - Chicago Rules, and What Dede Learned From David

As the Permanent Presidential Campaign rolls along, the most recent victims are the Republicans of New York’s 23rd district… who awoke today to discover something truly remarkable about erstwhile congressional candidate Dierdre “Dede” Scozzafava — that “lifelong Republican” who swore she would never leave the GOP — and her seemingly inexplicable endorsement of the Democrat [...]

Oct 24 2009

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sanity Clause

From the Washington Post — which seems to be edging ever so gingerly away from the One They Have Been Pining For:
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate [...]

Oct 19 2009

Grudge Match

AN EXPENSIVE DATE
Fox News host and former Gov. Mike Huckabee
threatened to cancel his October 27 appearance at the
Upstate Multi-County Committee of the New York State Conservative
Party annual dinner if the Conservative Party didn’t tamp down
criticism of Huckabee’s refusal to endorse Conservative Party
[...]