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A Celebratory Crowd at Democratic HQ
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2006 CommentI'll be filing from DCCC headquarters tonight–the Hyatt Regency ballroom at the base of Capitol Hill. Am here (if predictions turn out to be right) to watch Nancy Pelosi become the first female House speaker.
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End the Scandal-Plagued NCAA's Tax Exemption
Tweet Share on Facebook November 6, 2006 CommentCollege sports are so scandal rife, herculean muscle must be applied just to compile a list of recent NCAA scandals. Merely listing all categories of college sports scandals is exhausting. NCAA athletes and coaches, even professors who cater to college athletes, have industriously devised all manner of venality to further the cause of victory for home teams. There are all sorts of scandals: hazing, sex scandals, grades, recruitment, point shaving, and game fixing. Throw in gambling and rape, and you haven't even begun to list them all.
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Last-Minute Bad Timing
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2006 CommentLet's have a contest. Who has done a better job of creating a last-minute crisis for his side, on the eve of one of the closest off-year elections in recent U.S. history: Sen. John Kerry or the Rev. Ted Haggard of Colorado, who supports that state's constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage?
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Women Voters '06: Last-Minute Undecideds and More "Bring the Troops Home."
Tweet Share on Facebook November 1, 2006 CommentI know. We're being deluged by polls these last few days before the off-year elections. Plus, the White House is screaming "The Democrats have peaked" and the Democrats are countering: "NOT!"
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Fickle Voters
Tweet Share on Facebook October 30, 2006 Comment (94)History may declare the 2006 congressional elections the "Year of the Pendulum" in American politics. Voters' typically up-down, in-out, fickle nature seems particularly equivocal this election season.
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GOP GOTV
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2006 Comment (20)The worldview (in Washington at least) is that the Republicans have already lost the U.S. House and that the Senate could go either way. I heard a contrary view yesterday that I share herewith. A well-connected Republican pollster told me that internal White House polls show the Republicans hanging on to majority control of the House by one seat (translating into a 14-seat loss for the GOP) and maintaining control of the Senate (the latter being much of a surprise).
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Sex and the Single Girl (Voter)
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2006 Comment (15)If nothing else succeeds in prodding single women toward the ballot booth next month, will sex do it? Wouldn't have done it for me when I was young and single. There's something decidedly unsexy about voting (unsexy but incredibly important nonetheless). But I'm willing to bet I'm wrong, wrong, wrong on whether it'll work for single female gen-Xers.
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A Horse Race for Ohio's Deborah Pryce
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 Comment (167)Ohio's 15th Congressional District race should have been an easy slide into an eighth term for moderate Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce. It's been anything but.
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New Mexico's and Ohio's All-Female Races
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2006 CommentRep. Heather Wilson, a Republican from New Mexico's First Congressional District, is the only female veteran currently in Congress. She's the first Air Force Academy graduate in Congress and a former Rhodes scholar. She's also looking more and more like toast. Democratic challenger and Attorney General Patricia Madrid has run an aggressive campaign and gut-punch attack ads, featuring Wilson morphing into President Bush. Those ads seem to have worked well.
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All-Female Races Part 3
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2006 Comment (101)Minnesota's Sixth: The district is home to one of the most interesting (read that: competitive) woman vs. woman congressional races of the year. Democrat Patty Wetterling is ahead of Republican State Sen. Michelle Bachmann by 5 percentage points in a poll released this week. Majority Watch, which conducted the poll, "is a partnership set up by two independent polling firms to look at competitive House races nationwide in an effort to predict which party will win control the House on November 7. A total of 1,024 likely voters in the First District were interviewed in the automated telephone survey. The margin of error was listed at 3.08 percent."
