Category: Elections & Polls

In Ridgway Colorado they’re proposing mandatory voting: Residents of this Old West- meets-New Age town can be fined if their fences are too high, they have too many chickens, their dogs aren’t on leashes or their weeds are out of control. Tom Hennessy would like to add not voting to that list. Hennessy, a popular […]

There has been a lot of talk about Ron Paul’s straw poll win at CPAC. Here’s how it broke down: Ron Paul 31% Mitt Romney 22% Sarah Palin 7% Tim Pawlenty 6% Mike Pence 5% Newt Gingrich 4% Mike Huckabee 4% Mitch Daniels 2% John Thune 2% Rick Santorum 2% Haley Barbour 1% First off, […]

Of course, it’s impossible to say for sure what Sarah Palin is going to do in 2012, but it’s hard to miss the fact that she seems to be laying the groundwork for a run at the presidency. Consider the facts. * She probably needed to be heavily involved in national political issues and campaigns […]

“This is YOUR seat.” — Senator Scott Brown Lest the Republicans get too smug as they look toward the 2010 midterms, I’d suggest a strong dash of humility. The Democrats seem incapable of humility so I’ll spare my breath. Scott Brown ran against Obamacare, yes. He ran against stupid DOJ policies toward terrorists, yes. Most […]

Just great. Dan Riehl reports: Coakley attorney Marc Elias speaking now, claiming spoiled ballots … Elias is Al Franken’s former campaign attorney. Yep. Meanwhile, Mary Katherine Hamm has this screen grab from Coakley’s campaign yesterday, claiming fraud yesterday:

My friend Eric at Funhouseus catches the Boston Globe reporting results in Massachusetts before they’re counted. It’s all a big mistake: [Associated Press] was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a […]

Come on people! This election is by no means in the bag. In fact, it’s so far out of the bag, that I’m feeling a wee bit queasy about what I’m seeing on Twitter already. This is a special election in an overwhelmingly Democrat state. People there actually liked Ted Kennedy–you know, the guy never […]

According to blogger Greg Sargent, Martha Coakley’s campaign has sent a frantic last minute memo to top Democratic donors urging them to shell out the Benjamin’s because an internal poll shows the race to be “very tight.” The memo is the latest sign that the campaign surge of Scott Brown has caught the Democrat establishment […]

I so want this to happen, I’m afraid a poll like this is just to get Democrats off their duffs to vote. New reports on the Brown-Coakley race: Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset […]