“Hey Jim, could you put together a list of House races where it’s either an open seat race or a vulnerable incumbent?” the editors ask, oh-so-innocently.
Do they have any idea how much work that entails?
…because even if the NR editors don’t. I do. It entails thirteen webpages’ worth of work, and it’s interesting to see all of that in one place. Well worth reading, the better to refresh your memory; and bear in mind that this isn’t the final list; we’re still six months out from the election.
(Via Drudge) In Australia!
SPIDERMAN foiled a would-be thief as Jedi Knights blocked his escape route.
No, it’s not a comic book plot but the scene which unravelled in a Australian book store on Saturday.
Store owner Michael Baulderstone, dressed as Spiderman, spotted the man trying to steal an X-Men book worth $160 (£97).
The 45-year-old called for back-up and the hapless thief was surrounded by superheroes within seconds.
…the video is exceptionally less cool, though.
Dammit.
So… how long before this gets ‘clarified?’
Brunner says she won’t campaign for Fisher if she loses Tuesday
…Actually, you don’t really need anything past the title, except of course that Jennifer Brunner is the (Democratic-Netroot) Secretary of State for Ohio, Lee Fisher is the (Democratic-Establishment) Lt. Governor of Ohio, and both of them are currently competing for the right to lose to Republican Rob Portman in Ohio’s Senate race. No doubt Brunner will soon enough have enough family pets threatened* to get her back on the campaign trail for Fisher; but the damage has, as they say, been done. I don’t normally bother with primary victory/concession speeches, but this particular matched set might be worth mining…
(H/T: The Other McCain)
Moe Lane Continue reading The staggering *genius* that is the Democratic OH-SEN primary race.
Come To My Window
I know I’m supposed to find this kind of creepy now – but that faux-madness by the actress is kind of goofy. Now watch as I’m told that it was so totally accurate.
You might remember that I’ve talked with him before: but thanks to the new audio rig I can do a somewhat more proper job of an interview. The Virginia primaries are coming up: if Matthew gets the nomination he’ll be up against Jim Moran, who is rapidly moving up my list of People I Don’t Want To See In The 112th Congress*.
Matthew’s site is here.
Moe Lane Continue reading Meet Matthew Berry (R CAND, VA-08).
(All links via 24thState, which is pretty much your go-to site for Missouri politics these days.)
On the Internet, that is. So, when the Blunt campaign (accurately) notes that you were ““a banking executive” in Washington at the government’s Export-Import Bank,” and you argue instead that your “position in the 1990s was assistant to the chairman” – thus suggesting that you were in fact not a real “banking executive” – here’s some places that you should try to get sanitized:
Continue reading Ah, Robin Carnahan? Nothing ever goes away.
He will not be running for Congress in multiple OH districts. A shame: I had a glorious post planned for it, too.
Ex-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. filed nominating petitions today as an independent candidate for the 17th Congressional District on a platform of repealing the 16th Amendment.
After filing his petitions in the 17th district, Traficant said he was going to to the Columbiana County Board of Elections at about noon.
However, Traficant ended up not filing in the 6th, apparently he believed he could not run in both districts. However, an Ohio secretary of state spokesman said there was nothing in state law to prohibit Traficant for running for both seats in the same election.
(Italics mine) Now they tell us. As to what effect that it has on OH-17… beats me; but people are going to report more on that particular race. Jim Traficant is good copy, bless his heart.
Moe Lane
*NAME! THAT! PARTY!
Possibly the most important bit in this article (via Hot Air) is the bit I put in bold:
President Barack Obama’s Washington-bashing could boomerang on his party in Congress if he’s not careful, House Democratic leaders have warned White House senior adviser David Axelrod.
The fear — raised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, campaign chief Chris Van Hollen and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in a closed-door meeting Thursday — is that Democrats have more to lose if anti-Washington sentiment is not directed at one party or the other.
“If the president is going to go out and talk about how Washington’s broken, he’s got to include a strong contrast with congressional Republicans, or else we’re going to get blamed for it,” one meeting participant said later.
I note this because I’m pretty sure that the President had an expectation that the meeting was going to be free of leaks – and not only was it leaked, it was leaked by somebody who spent that meeting yelling at David Axelrod. Which is how that meeting probably went in the first place. Continue reading Somebody tattled on the Democratic whine party!
Yeah. Actually… yeah. I could see where this might be seen as being a bit much.
Obama’s writers may have thought their quip about the Jonas Brothers during White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was a nod to the boy band and their star power, but the brothers saw it as a jab.
Nick and Joe Jonas were spotted sulking in the corner at the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair after-party when Yeas & Nays asked what they thought of the joke.
“We’re not that old,” Nick Jonas told Yeas.
“Seriously, we’re not pedophiles,” Joe jumped in.
That being said – and it also being said that, yeah, the President needs to start learning how to laugh at himself* – we are talking about the Jonas Brothers, here. Considering that their mission statement is “Be heartthrobs to America’s tweens…” well, my sympathies are muted.
Moe Lane
*Because he’d be better off doing it himself, rather than having us do it for him.
House Minority Leader John Boehner made a comment late last week that raised an eyebrow or two:
When pressed for a number, Boehner said he believed the GOP could win as many as 100 seats in this fall’s elections.
“At least 100 seats,” Boehner said when asked how wide the playing field for districts is. “I do,” the top House Republican answered when asked if he thinks there are 100 seats in the U.S. “that could change hands.”
Much as I hate to contradict Rep. Boehner, we must fight inaccuracy in all its forms. There are not currently one hundred Democratic-held seats that could change hands, and he should have known better than to claim that in this media atmosphere.
There are currently only ninety-nine. Continue reading ‘One (hundred) seat at a time…’
