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Transparency and a free press may not be among North Carolina Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan’s priorities as she struggles to hold onto her Senate seat.  She and her campaign insist “Solardyne/Green State Power, a company co-owned by Sen. Hagan’s husband Chip

In response to For Democrats, ‘The Republican War On Women’ Is Now Literally A Punchline (Video): The “War on Women” was also literally a punch line for CNN anchor Carol Costello, who laughed herself sick over audio of Sarah Palin’s

The Tampa Bay Times has dubbed  Steven R. Andrews, as “a Republican Tallahassee trial lawyer with mad-scientist hair and a flair for headline-grabbing”.  The eccentric Edward Scissorhands of the Tallahassee trial lobby has been spending much of his time filing

In the race to become Massachusetts next governor, Republican Charlie Baker leaped to a comfortable 9-point advantage over Democrat Martha Coakley, 45 – 36 percent. That,  according to a new poll from the Boston Globe. A previous poll from just last week

According to reports, Republican Bill Cassidy is hitting Democrat Mary Landrieu hard in a new ad based upon her weak record on immigration. That would certainly jibe with the latest from Cassidy’s official campaign blog. (Baton Rouge, La.) —  Dr. Bill

The Department of Justice has condemned recent leaks to the media suggesting evidence being heard by the grand jury in the Michael Brown shooting case is favorable to police officer Darren Wilson. A spokesman for the DOJ told the LA

Macaca. Legitimate rape. Forty-seven percent. Remember these phrases?  The media said they defined the Republican candidates.  There was endless coverage of them.  But what happens when a Democrat says that he doesn’t support parental consent before a 14 year-old can

In response to Obama: If Nunn Wins, Democrats Will Keep The Senate: The Commandant-In-Chief could be correct in saying that a Nunn win in Georgia on election night saves the Senate for Democrats. I have been saying all along that

Barack Obama called into Atlanta’s V 103 radio station Tuesday to support fellow Democrat Michelle Nunn on “The Ryan Cameron Morning Show with Wanda Smith.”   During the call, Obama seemed to suggest that if she wins her Senate race against

The Palestinian terror group Hamas, which serves in the unity government of the Palestinian Authority, has praised Wednesday’s attack on a light rail bus station in Jerusalem that killed a 3-month-old baby who happens to be a U.S. citizen. According

It didn’t take long for the left to begin carping about coverage of the shooting in Canada this morning. In fact, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes got the ball rolling before word even broke that alleged shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was a convert

Iowa Republican and Senate candidate Joni Ernst initially burst onto the political scene with an ad entitled “Squeal,” that went viral given it’s theme: “Joni grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so in Washington, she’ll know how to

It made big news recently when the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee announced it was pulling its ads out of Kentucky, where Alison Lundergan Grimes had been thought to have a good shot at knocking off incumbent Republican and Minority Leader, Mitch

Republican Cory Gardner now leads Democrat Mark Udall by 7 points, 46 – 39,  in the race for the Senate in Colorado according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll. While Gardner has led in previous polls, he now looks to

A group called FCKH8.com has created a new video featuring girls as young as 6-years-old repeating the F-word over and over, ostensibly, to raise awareness of gender inequality. According to the creators of the clip, “these adorably articulate little ladies

I spent my morning on a West Village bench reading. Nearby I could hear a young woman talking to a friend about her boyfriend. “But I know there’s a good guy in there somewhere. He just needs to realize it.”

A super PAC tied to the Koch brothers, Freedom Partners Action Fund, is spending $6.5 million on advertising across six states in what’s being framed as “closing arguments.” The ads shy away from hot button issues like immigration, or Ebola, instead seeking “to

Yesterday, Breitbart News reported on a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll that has Democrat Al Franken leading Republican challenger Mike McFadden 53 to 38 percent. We later updated with a statement from the McFadden campaign. Additionally, subsequent research of our own casts further doubt on

First it was his ‘fan’ now its his mouth that has gotten Charlie Crist in a heep of trouble with voters.  During the last debate between Crist and Republican Rick Scott, Crist teed it up for Republicans.  Debate moderator Jake

Neither Barack Obama, nor another prominent Democrat, “Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, former governor and federal felon Edwin W. Edwards,” managed to show up at what was billed as a large Louisiana event for Democrat Mary Landrieu, yesterday. While Landrieu appears to be

A new survey release by Gallup shows that Americans’ faith in the government to handle Ebola has dropped substantially in the past two weeks. Confidence in the government response dropped from 61% when Gallup first asked the question on October

Greg Orman, the Independent who is running against Republican incumbent Pat Roberts in Kansas’ U.S. Senate election, has made it clear that he is not tied to any party. He is a man of principle whose votes in Congress will

Cards on the table: I’m as big a fan of “Breaking Bad” as you’ll find anywhere, and laughed out loud at the sight of series protagonist Walter White rendered as an action figure – complete with a pistol, a satchel

In response to ‘Ebola Czar’ still not ready for prime time: After all – he’ a “political fixer” and the negative perceptions people have about his appointment need fixing sooner rather than later. Folks on the right and the left

Update: The McFadden campaign has offered the following response to the survey. From Tom Erickson, McFadden for Senate spokesman, “If the guys at SurveyUSA really think that Democrat turnout in Minnesota will be higher than 2008 or 2012, then we’d like whatever

In response to Bachmann Gets Security Detail After ISIS Threat: Should the U.S. Capitol police assign a detail to all of those members of Congress who are privy to the same intelligence information as Bachmann? While it would take a

Ater an ISIS (or ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) threat against Rep Michele Bachmann emerged online last week, federal law enforcement took it seriously enough that Capitol Police have now assigned her a special security detail. An online

President Obama attended a rally for gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown in Maryland on Sunday. The event drew a large crowd but some people walked out before the President was even done speaking. WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland captured video of people

In response to Wendy Davis accuses Greg Abbott of wanting to ban his own marriage: Actually Wendy Davis’ fifteen minutes of fame expired some time ago, but apparently no one bothered to tell her. Her campaign is running on the

The Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) has cut a political ad using Senator Marco Rubio’s recent remarks about how Charlie Crist would really suck as governor of Florida. For those of you who have been living under a rock the past

The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) undercut his own boss on television Sunday. In an appearance on Meet the Press, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he disagreed NIH director Francis Collins about whether we we

I’m generally skeptical of consultants who hype up digital and social media capabilities while ignoring the “old-fashioned” part of campaigning.  Much was made in the 2012 election about the Obama campaign’s use of technology, while ignoring the boots on the

The religious Jewish world has been rocked by a scandal at an Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. in which the rabbi of Kesher Israel in Georgetown–where former Sen. Joe Lieberman and current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew both pray–has been arrested