Special Report: The McCain Presidency at One Hundred Days – by Mwalimu Daudi
This comment was posted in yesterday’s open thread, and I felt it deserved it’s own. Full credit goes to ST reader Mwalimu Daudi. Enjoy! 🙂
Egg on establishment GOP’s faces as Specter switches parties
WaPo’s The Fix blog is reporting that when Arlen Specter runs for reelection next year he will do so … as a Democrat:
Tedisco concedes
Oh well. At least it was a battle and not a blowout.
It’s official: Pat Toomey to challenge Specter again
This is great news:
Money does buy elections
Wisconsin had their spring non-partisan general election last night, and the results could not be more disappointing from my perspective. There were two statewide races, for a seat on the state Supreme Court, and for state superintendent. The Supreme Court race was a given loss; Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is an institution, and she faced a very weak opponent in Judge Randy Koschnick. Moreover, the left in Wisconsin scared off the conservative sources of money, which was instrumental in providing money parity in the previous two Supreme Court elections both won by the conservative candidate. Meanwhile, they continued to pour money into Abrahamson’s campaign. There was no surprise in that race, as WTMJ-TV reported, with 94% reporting, Abrahamson won with 59.3% of the vote.
Tedisco/Murphy race “too close to call”
Memeorandum is loaded with updates and commentary this morning on yesterday’s vote in NY-20 as to who was going to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in the US House – Jim Tedisco (R) or Scott Murphy (D). The NYT reports that as of late last night, 65 votes separated the two candidates: