Game Change: McCain Called Anmesty Opponents a ‘Party of Assholes’
And incredibly, that was just the warm-up.
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Public Policy Poll: Brown Over Coakley By 5
Public Policy Polling’s (remember, this is a Democratic firm) final poll on the Massachusetts Senate election shows Republican Scott Brown leading Democrat Martha Coakley 51% to 46%.
Looking at some of the details:
Coakley now has a -7 favorable rating, while Brown has a +19 favorable rating.
Coakley’s 44% favorable rating is exactly tied with Obama’s 44% approval [...]
Thinking about the unthinkable
One crude way to think about the Massachusetts Senate race is to suppose that the swing from Democrat to Republican in this race is as great as the remarkable swing from 2008 to 2009 that just occurred in the Virginia governor’s race. Would this produce a victory for Republican Scott Brown?
The answer is: not [...]
Kristol: The Left vs. Rasmussen
A piece in Politico claims “Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.” In fact the piece quotes only one Democratic pollster who’s critical of Rasmussen. The complaints seem to [...]
DiFi: No More Gitmo Transfers to Yemen
Coming on the heels of a joint statement from Senators Lieberman, McCain, and Graham, this is another serious blow to the administration’s plan to overcome a key hurdle to closing Gitmo, i.e. what to do with all the Yemenis who can’t be tried and can’t be resettled anywhere else than their home country. The administration [...]
McConnell: About That Precipice…
In a floor speech today, Sen. Mitch McConnell used Obama’s own precipice imagery against him (although he was kind of working against himself already with “precipice”):
“There’s a good chance [Dems] will not be able to get their members to lock arms & walk off a cliff.”
McConnell and McCain also pointed out that almost no one [...]
