Pelosi vows to hang onto House in 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that Democrats’ majority in Congress is not in danger going into the 2010 midterm elections.
Pelosi said that while every election cycle is competitive, and acknowledged the particularly large margin by which Democrats control the House, [...]
The Memphis Flyer doesn’t understand the why:
For whatever reason, the state’s Republican hierarchy seems to have decided, after acquiring a legislative majority in the 2008 elections and gaining control of the state’e electoral machinery, that implementing the TVCA, with its strict controls over vote fraud, would menace their interests. [...]
Writing before Gordon’s announcement, the group noted that Gordon had won handily in the last three elections and wouldn’t be starved for resources this time around, with more than $1.1 million in the bank at the end of the third quarter.
Jim Geraghty reports:
With his special election victory Tuesday night, Republican state Representative Jimmy Higdon will take a seat in the Kentucky State Senate for the open 14th District seat. Higdon’s special election victory is the 33rd win for Republicans in state legislative special elections across the country since November [...]
The movement has now become a political force:
The energized “tea party” movement, which upended this year’s political debate with noisy anti-government protests, is preparing to shake up the 2010 elections by channeling money and supporters to conservative candidates set to challenge both Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats think about changing the chatter:
Senior strategists in the party argue the label at best has outlived its usefulness, and at worst will do nothing to win new Democratic votes in the 2010 elections.
“The Democrats are making an enormous mistake when they say the Republicans are the party of [...]
Frank Cagle asks why taxpayers should pay for party primary elections. Read the whole thing.
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One of Say Uncle’s readers is all “Kelsey won because of guns!” which, I have to admit, is better than, “… because progressives can’t win elections.” or “…because bloggers have no real influence.” which is what our side has been hoping they can pedal. [...] Sean Braisted on last night’s shake-up in Tennessee politics:
This is likely to be one of the most contested elections in the country, and while Tanner probably had a good shot at winning re-election, Herron’s candidacy is far less certain given the general malaise of the Democratic voting base this [...]
David Oatney makes the argument:
Voters and citizens have complained since time immemorial about those politicians who vote in certain ways merely to win elections, yet when a leader comes along who votes his or her principles and doesn’t lie about it or try and cover it up, that person [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee thinks some of our congressman may be looking into retirement. From an email:
Today, Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Ks.) became the first member of Congress since the ‘09 elections to announce he’s not running for re-election.
Rep. Moore…
· …Is a veteran House Democrat
· …Represents a [...]
About time the rolls where cleaned up. This is what happens when you have dem’s controlling elections for the last 100 years.
Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins’ staff found what appeared to be at least 9,800 dead voters still on the rolls after comparing the [...]
From a presser:
Tennessee’s Division of Elections has identified at least 9,800 deceased voters who should be removed from voter registration rolls across the state.
Tennessee drew unwanted national publicity in 2005 when it was discovered someone had illegally voted in a state Senate race by using names of the deceased.
