The likely next Senate President was quoted yesterday saying that now is not the time to drive marriage equality through the legislature. The remark absolutely was a surprise.
According to Politico, Democrats are becoming increasingly alarmed about their standing with independents. In the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, Republicans Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie both won independents by roughly a 2:1 margin.
Independents now also have an extremely unfavorable view of this Congress. [...]
The pinch hitting history: Seven years ago. Lautenberg for Torricelli. Torricelli resigns in scandal 31 days before the election. State law says a candidate must withdraw 51 days before an election in order for a new candidate to be named. Democrats take it to the NJ Supreme Court and 51 [...]
From Andrew Malcolm at the Los Angeles Times:
Wow, for somebody who's supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.
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The latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll contains a piece of information that probably sent Jon Corzine & Co. to the locker room. New Jersey 101.5 FM radio's audience considers itself to be mostly politically independent -- 29 percent are Democrats and 18 percent Republican. In [...]
From Donald mabro in the Washington Times:
"From what I am told all weekend there were head counts. Democrats are now confident they have the support of at least four Republicans in the Senate including Jen Beck, Sean Kean, Kip Bateman and Bill Baroni. Democrats will not apparently bring" [...]
Just when Republicans are starting to get comfortable after a victory, the Democrats are pulling the rug out from under us again.
The New Jersey Family Policy Council has just announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will post and vote on a gay marriage bill. The bill [...]
The state Senate and Assembly, which have been in recess since June, have finally released their meeting schedules for the lame-duck post-election session -- which seems to be getting a much later start this year than usual, as the majority Democrats regain their bearings after their loss of the governor's' [...]
Damn those Democrats. I know that’s what you’re thinking. It would make sense that the political party of abortion would be the party to offer medical coverage of abortions to their employees in their health coverage.
One problem with your guess though.
It’s not the DNC.
It’s the RNC!!!
That’s right [...]
Matt Rooney | November 13, 2009"Clinton delivered on all of these issues, keeping tax increases fairly small, and balancing the budget for much of his term. In so doing – and this is very important – he re-branded the Democrats as" [...]
Matt Rooney | November 12, 2009
Photo by Jennifer Brown at the Star-Ledger, from this morning's story on how Corzine's loss is reshaping the financial future of New Jersey Democrats.
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Remember all the talk this past summer about Gov. Jon Corzine possibly plucking entrepeneur and former 'The Apprentice" winner Randal Pinkett as his lieutenant governor running-mate? Didn't happen, of course. Pinkett wound up as chairman of the Democrats' "Yes We Can 2.0" effort to lure young'" [...]
From Gallup:
Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July and two points last month.
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