For the time being, I'm going to do all my posting at MBATR, as I just can't keep up 2 blogs at once. I'll come back to this one next year, as the mayoral race heats up.
Feel free to drop by the Ranch, and don't forget to [...]
All Monday there was considerable talk that the national picture had suddenly changed and that there was a significant tightening in the election. This was based in part on two national polls that showed the generic congressional ballot test having tightened to four [...]
a) take all the blastocysts used in in vitro fertilization and toss them in the garbage, or
b) [...]
Chocola (R) 45% (42)
Donnelly (D) 50% (50)
House Appropriations chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is under federal investigation for possible improprieties in how he oversaw Congress' spending of $900 billion annually. Yesterday, we reported that Lewis had dropped nearly $800,000 in legal fees to defend himself against the probe.
This evening, Congressional Quarterly [...]
The group, Americans for Honesty on Issues, is spending more than $1 million on the advertisements, which accuse Democratic candidates of carpetbagging, coddling illegal immigrants, being soft on crime and advocating cutting off money for troops in Iraq.
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The leader of Americans for [...]
The rugged national political environment for Republicans in general — and a well-funded attack campaign from Democratic and liberal groups — are the chief reasons why two-term Republican Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana’s 2nd District faces a tougher race in his rematch with Democratic lawyer Joe [...]
Chocola 46 (38)
Donnelly 50 (52)
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (D) for the DCCC. 10/4-5. Likely voters. MoE 4.6% (No trend lines)
Chocola (R) 36
Donnelly (D) 52
Mercury Public Affairs (R) for the Chocola [...]
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random [...]
Based on what you know now, do you approve, or do you disapprove, of the job New York congressman Tom
Reynolds has done in response to contact between congressmen and teenage pages?
Approve 20
Disapprove 66
Not sure [...]
Chocola 39
Donnelly 48.5
South Bend Trib.
Sept 18
Donnelly (D) 50%, Chocola (R) 42%
Const. Dyn.
Sept 13
Donnelly (D) 52%, Chocola (R) 40%
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Sen. Evan Bayh's All America PAC plans to donate $100K to the IN Dem party, and Bayh will spend a good part of 10/06 blitzing his state to help elect Dems to Congress and the state legislature. Beginning 10/6, Bayh will campaign for Dem candidates in [...]
