Politico reports on the wide open field for Senate after the death of Ted Kennedy (D-MA). They call it a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" given the fact that Kennedy had served in the Senate for 46 years.
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com explains the more subtle reasons that it will be difficult for a Republican to win the Kennedy seat.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has skipped another fundraiser (the fourth time now) denying that she ever received an invitation. Interesting way to build up support for a Presidential run.
And the Huffington Post finds this video - a song written by the conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) for the late Senator Kennedy.
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Showing posts with label Ted Kennedy. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Top Stories: 8/26/09
There's really only one story today: Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has passed away at 77.
Visit the Huffington Post for several columns remembering the liberal lion.
Visit Politico for more stories on Senator's passing.
For Kennedy speeches, click here.
Visit the Huffington Post for several columns remembering the liberal lion.
Visit Politico for more stories on Senator's passing.
For Kennedy speeches, click here.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Campaign Updates (6/22/09)
Florida
Will Marco Rubio turn out to be the GOP’s Barack Obama? Carlos Watson of MSNBC seems to think so, and Rubio could not have asked for a better introduction to a national audience.
California
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles is expected to announce he will run for governor of California any minute now. He will soon be on CNN’s “Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer. Be sure to watch it.
Connecticut
Entrenched Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) is getting help from his longtime friend, Sen. Ted Kennedy. The new ad Kennedy cut should help with Dodd’s poor standing back home.
Dodd has been speaking on Kennedy’s behalf as the healthcare debate has moved forward in Washington, and the two politicians have been good friends since they entered the Senate together as young men over 30 years ago.
Iran
Last week we speculated the likelihood that Iran’s recent elections were fraudulent. At the time we couldn’t find any definitive evidence either way. Now there are new studies out that find certain election results to be more than a little fishy.
The first comes from upcoming NYU political scientists Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco who find that the frequencies of certain digits at various polling places in Iran are extremely unlikely to be accurate. Overall, they say that the way Ahmadinejad won only has a one-in-two-hundred chance of being legitimate.
The second study comes from the Institute of Iranian Studies at St. Andrews University in the UK. The most glaring problem they notice is that two entire provinces reported turnouts of over 100% - and they were both Ahmadinejad-supportive.
They also found that…
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com wonders if these new concessions by the Ayatollah's government about voting irregularities are the first sign that Ahmadinejad could get thrown under the bus.
Will Marco Rubio turn out to be the GOP’s Barack Obama? Carlos Watson of MSNBC seems to think so, and Rubio could not have asked for a better introduction to a national audience.
California
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles is expected to announce he will run for governor of California any minute now. He will soon be on CNN’s “Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer. Be sure to watch it.
Connecticut
Entrenched Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) is getting help from his longtime friend, Sen. Ted Kennedy. The new ad Kennedy cut should help with Dodd’s poor standing back home.
Dodd has been speaking on Kennedy’s behalf as the healthcare debate has moved forward in Washington, and the two politicians have been good friends since they entered the Senate together as young men over 30 years ago.
Iran
Last week we speculated the likelihood that Iran’s recent elections were fraudulent. At the time we couldn’t find any definitive evidence either way. Now there are new studies out that find certain election results to be more than a little fishy.
The first comes from upcoming NYU political scientists Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco who find that the frequencies of certain digits at various polling places in Iran are extremely unlikely to be accurate. Overall, they say that the way Ahmadinejad won only has a one-in-two-hundred chance of being legitimate.
The second study comes from the Institute of Iranian Studies at St. Andrews University in the UK. The most glaring problem they notice is that two entire provinces reported turnouts of over 100% - and they were both Ahmadinejad-supportive.
They also found that…
“In a third of all provinces, the official results would require that Ahmadinejad took not only all former conservative voters, all former centrist voters, and all new voters, but also up to 44% of former reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two groups.”
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com wonders if these new concessions by the Ayatollah's government about voting irregularities are the first sign that Ahmadinejad could get thrown under the bus.
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