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Opinion: GOP -- Beware Myths About Palin and McCain
By Michael Medved - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- As Republicans consider their presidential options for 2012, they ought to discard two dangerously misleading pieces of conventional wisdom: that Sarah Palin and her tea party supporters represent a triumphant, even dominant force in American politics, and that more centrist, veteran GOP officeholders exert little appeal to the electorate. National results in the last two election cycles conclusively disprove both assumptions: Palin's power as king (or queen) maker in 2010 produced spotty, unreliable results. And Sen. John McCain ran a stronger race and drew more votes in 2008 ...
Palin Power: A Losing Month for Endorsements, but Up Overall
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyIt's been a tough month for Sarah Palin's mama -- and papa -- grizzlies. Still, her endorsement record this year is in positive territory. After a great June, several candidates endorsed by Palin lost in primary elections. Four more will take the primary test Tuesday and another six on Sept. 14. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate is all over Facebook and Twitter promoting her endorsements. And she's used her political action committee to donate some $87,500 to candidates. Thus far, our tally shows Palin is 6-2 in endorsements in governors' races, 3-6 in ...
Washington Senate Primary: Patty Murray to Face Republican Dino Rossi in Fall
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a high-stakes Senate race that drew President Obama into the state, incumbent Democrat Patty Murray will face well-known Republican Dino Rossi in Washington after the two finished first and second Tuesday night in a non-partisan primary. Presidential politics will almost certainly be part of the fall campaign as Democrats seek to protect their majority in the Senate and retain the seat of the three-term Sen. Murray. Obama campaigned for her in Washington on primary day, with Murray summoning the memory of the Bush years as an opening salvo. She said that a vote for Rossi in November ...
Patty Murray Running Neck-and-Neck with Dino Rossi in Washington Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThree-term Democratic Sen. Patty Murray holds a statistically-insignificant lead over Republican Dino Rossi, the party's twice unsuccessful candidate for governor, in the November contest for Washington's Senate seat, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 27-Aug.1 Murray and Rossi first have to go through the state's Aug. 17 "jungle primary" in which all candidates, regardless of party, go before voters and the top two finishers face off in the Fall. In the primary match-up, Murray leads Rossi by 47 percent to 33 percent because Tea Party favorite Clint Didier and ...
Podcast: Washington Post's Aaron Blake on U.S. Senate Campaigns
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe Washington Post's Aaron Blake joins us on the podcast today to discuss U.S. Senate races, as well as the potential fallout from yesterday's court decision on the Arizona illegal immigration law. Blake and I also discussed whether the national Democratic strategy of running against George W. Bush can still work in 2010. We also talked about the interesting Senate campaigns in Arkansas (Republican John Boozman may beat Sen. Blanche Lincoln without raising a lot of money), California, Florida (Gov. Charlie Crist benefited from the BP oil spill), Nevada (Sharron Angle is hiding from the ...
Two Leading GOP Contenders Inch Past Patty Murray in Washington Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTwo of the three Republicans hoping to win their party's nomination to take on three-term Democratic Sen. Patty Murray in Washington have inched ahead of her although the races are still within the margin of error, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted July 14. Former state senator and two-times unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi as well as former NFL player Clint Didier, a Tea Party favorite, lead Murray by 48 percent to 45 percent and with the balance of voters preferring someone else or undecided. The survey's margin of error is 4 points. Last month, Murray and ...
Sarah Palin's PAC Pulls In Nearly $1 Million in Second Quarter
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySarah Palin's political action committee had its best fundraising quarter ever between April and June, bringing in nearly $1 million. It funneled $87,500 of that to Republican candidates, including several -- but not all -- of the ones she endorsed. Among the recipients of the former Alaska governor's largess were 11 GOP candidates running for some of the 23 Democratic House seats she targeted after passage of the controversial health care reform in March. In a report filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission, SarahPAC indicated that Palin took in $865,815 from April 1 through June ...
Patty Murray and Dino Rossi Running Even in Washington Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs has been the case in every match-up between them, three-term Democratic Sen. Patty Murray is in a neck-and-neck race for re-election against Republican Dino Rossi, a former state senator and GOP gubernatorial candidate, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted June 22. Murray is tied at 47 percent with Rossi who, after playing a guessing game for a while, got into the race in late May. Three percent prefer some other candidate and 3 percent are undecided. Rossi still faces challengers for the GOP nomination which will be settled in an August 17 primary but he is widely expected to ...
Charlie Crist, Arlen Specter, Artur Davis: Can Centrists Survive?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailySo far, 2010 has been an eventful, and sometimes perilous year for independent-minded politicians -- and would-be party kingmakers. This dual lesson keeps being relearned in primary after primary, all over the country, and in both parties. The evidence ranges from the unhorsing of Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah to the rejection -- first within the Republican Party then in the Democratic Party -- of iconoclastic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. The rebuff of Rep. Artur Davis in his bid for governor of Alabama is part of this story. So is the intraparty knife fight that Sen. Blanche Lincoln ...
Tea Party Favorite Clint Didier Fires Up Washington GOP Convention
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyAlthough onetime state Sen. Dino Rossi is considered the frontrunner for the GOP Senate nomination in Washington, the candidate who got the biggest response Saturday at the state's GOP convention was former pro football player and Tea Party favorite Clint Didier, according to the Seattle Times. Rossi ran as the party's standard-bearer for governor twice, losing both times, including in 2008 in the closest gubernatorial contest in U.S. history. After much speculation Rossi, who was considered to be the strongest challenger to three-term Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, got into the race in late ...
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