Bayh’s Very Partisan Exit
Did Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, who insists he favors more bipartisanship in Washington, schedule the announcement of his retirement to give his party a distinctly partisan advantage in picking a candidate to run for his seat? It sure looks like he did exactly that.
Indeed, Democratic strategists and party officials [...]
Rasmussen: Kirk Leads Giannoulias 46% to 40% in IL Sen. Race
A new Rasmussen poll shows Mark Kirk opening up a 46% to 40% lead over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias:
Among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties, the Republican holds a sizable 59% to 22% lead.
In December, Giannoulias was up by three points over Kirk. In October, the two men were tied at 41% each. [...]
Obama In TV Ad For Coakley - Boston Channel
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is featured in a new TV ad for endangered Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts … He’s also filmed a Web video and taped automated phone calls urging Democrats to turn out to vote for Coakley …
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A Shot Heard ‘Round the World?
Byron York reports that the “bottom has fallen out of” the Martha Coakley Senate campaign. In her own polling, she is now running, York, says, around five points behind. Both local and national Democrats are convinced that unless something dramatic shifts in the next four days, she will lose to Republican Scott Brown. [...]
Wheels Coming Off for Massachusetts Democrats?
Byron York traces the latest line of attack by Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race. And it’s pretty weird:
Frantic over the possibility that a Democrat might lose the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, the Democratic National Committee has sent its top spinner, Hari Sevugan, to the aid of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, [...]
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 [...]
