Desperate for cash, Lamont donates $2 million more to his campaign
What does he blame having to donate more of his own money to his campaign on? An alleged Lieberman “slush fund.” Via the Hartford Courant:
Will the GOP hang on to Congress next month? And other misc. election notes
With polls showing the Dems poised to take control of Congress, one magazine – Barron’s – is predicting that the R’s will hold on to their control in Washington. But just barely. Drudge has a snippet of the subscription-only content from the Barron’s site. If any of you have a subscription to Barron’s magazine, please email me or post a synopsis of the article in the comments section of this post. Would love to read more about this. Ok, on to what Drudge quoted:
DNC Chair Howie Dean refuses to debate RNC Chair Ken Mehlman
It was supposed to be a debate between the two current chairs of the Democrat and Republican parties respectively, but it ended up being a debate between the current chair of the RNC and the former chair of the DNC (Terry McAuliffe). Here’s the video of Today show host Meredith Vieira introducing McAuliffe and Mehlman, and announcing that NBC had invited Dean on and noting he declined to be on at the same time as Mehlman. ROTFL! Too funny.
Loser of the week: Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. crashes Bob Corker’s news conference
In an unbelievable display of chutzpah yesterday, Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. showed up uninvited at a scheduled media event for his opponent Bob Corker and the cameras were rolling. You can see video of the event here and media coverage of it here. Here’s the AP write-up on the showdown in Tennessee. I wonder how much attention the national media will give this? If it were the other way around, I’m betting we’d have seen a lot more coverage of it. Just a thought …
Poll news and notes – BIG news in the Maryland Senate race
SurveyUSA has Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele now tied with Ben Cardin. Cardin has been running at least 6 points ahead or more in most polls taken in the last couple of months, but perhaps we’re now seeing the fallout from House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer’s recent comments to a group of black businessmen that Steele had a “slavish” devotion to the Republican party?