Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Pennsylvania: Murtha's Widow Won't Run

The race among Democrats to fill Pennsylvania's Rep. John Murtha's seat often seems like a competition over who would most resemble the 18-term Johnstown powerbroker once in office.
On Monday, the person who would most embody that sentiment, his widow, Joyce, said she is not going to run for the seat -- opening the Democratic field for more than a half-dozen candidates. The Murtha for Congress Committee said in a statement that Mrs. Murtha "feels that it is too soon after his death to be on the campaign trail."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Florida: McCollum Leads Sink by 13

Attorney General {{w|Bill McCollum}}Image via Wikipedia
McCollum 48 (+2 vs. last poll, 1/29)
Sink 35 (unch)
Und 12 (-1)

Real Clear Politics




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Wisconsin: Republicans Lead Governors Race

Survey of 500 Likely Voters in Wisconsin
February 17, 2010
Election 2010: Wisconsin Governor
Mark Neumann (R) 44%
Tom Barrett (D) 42%
Other 4%
Not sure 10%
Election 2010: Wisconsin Governor
Scott Walker (R) 49%
Tom Barrett (D) 40%
Other 1%
Not sure 10%

Rasmussen Reports

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ohio: Portman Primary Challenger Decides to Challenge Congresswoman Instead

Rob Portman, Director of the Office of Managem...Image via Wikipedia
The [Tom] Ganley switch is a coup for Republicans because it gives former Rep. Rob Portman a clear path to the GOP Senate nomination and could put another Democratic-held House seat into play. A recent internal GOP poll showed Ganley leading Sutton by 3 points. 
The Hill

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Oregon: Finally, a Democrat Who Looks Like he Might Win in November

Oregon Survey of 500 Likely Voters
February 16, 2010
Election 2010: Oregon Senate
Jim Huffman (R) 35%
Ron Wyden (D) 49%
Some Other Candidate 7%
Not Sure 9%

Source: Rasmussen Reports

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Tennessee: Bredeson's Press Secretary Denying Rumored Switch to GOP

Poll: GOP Making Striking Gains Against Dems

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll is signaling that the Republican Party’s resurgence is gaining strength as a growing number of Americans seem to think conservatives may be better at managing the economy than President Barack Obama and the Democrats.

The poll of 1,004 adults nationwide shows Republicans have narrowed the gap with the Democrats when it comes to who voters trust more to deal with the country’s problems. This shift erodes one of what had been Obama’s major political advantages.


NewsMax


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New York: Jamestown Councilman Switches to Independence Party

Earlier this week, City Councilman Steve Szwejbka, the city's Ward 1 councilman, cited frustration with the status quo as his main reason for leaving the Democratic Party in favor of the Independence Party.
Szwejbka, who has been a member of the Democratic Party since the mid-1970s, is entering his third term as a Jamestown City Councilman. He serves on the council's Public Safety and Housing committees.
Post-Journal

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Washington: Rossi Leads Murray

Patty Murray, widely recognized as the stupidest member of the US Senate, is in trouble if she has to take on Dino Rossi, but seems to be having an easier time against the other candidates.

Washington Survey of 500 Likely Voters
February 11, 2010
2010 Washington Senate
Dino Rossi (R) 48%
Patty Murray (D) 46%
Some Other Candidate 1%
Not Sure 5%
2010 Washington Senate
Don Benton (R) 38%
Patty Murray (D) 50%
Some Other Candidate 3%
Not Sure 9%
2010 Washington Senate
Clint Didier (R) 34%
Patty Murray (D) 49%
Some Other Candidate 4%
Not Sure 13%
2010 Washington Senate
Chris Widener (R) 33%
Patty Murray (D) 48%
Some Other Candidate 5%
Not Sure 14%
Rasmussen Reports

California: Whitman Tied With Brown

California Survey of 500 Likely Voters
February 15, 2010
Election 2010: California Governor
Meg Whitman (R) 43%
Jerry Brown (D) 43%
Some Other Candidate 6%
Not Sure 8%
Election 2010: California Governor
Steve Poizner (R) 34%
Jerry Brown (D) 46%
Some Other Candidate 7%
Not Sure 13%
Election 2010: California Governor
Meg Whitman (R) 43%
Dianne Feinstein (D) 45%
Some Other Candidate 2%
Not Sure 9%
Election 2010: California Governor
Steve Poizner (R) 36%
Dianne Feinstein (D) 48%
Some Other Candidate 5%
Not Sure 11%

Rasmussen Reports

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Alabama: Chilton County Sheriff Switches to Republican Party for 2010

Chilton County Sheriff Kevin Davis plans to seek re-election in 2010, but this time as a Republican candidate.
Davis, who was elected as a Democrat in 2006, had shared his decision with several people prior to Friday. He said he felt that the timing was right to make the announcement.
Clanton Advertiser
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New York: County Legislator Switches to GOP

Monroe County legislator, Carmen Gumina.
There are many reasons I have made this change, but they all go back to my single most important priority as an elected official: being the best possible representative for my constituents in the town of Webster,” Gumina said during a news conference at GOP headquarters on State Street. “A bright future for Webster depends on a county government that believes in fiscal conservatism and protecting taxpayers.”
RocNow.com

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Connecticut: Blumenthal Leads Simmons by 19, McMahon by 20

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Survey of 500 Likely Voters in CT
February 1, 2010
Election 2010: Connecticut Senate Race
Rob Simmons (R) 35%
Richard Blumenthal (D) 54%
Some other candidate 4%
Not sure 7%
Election 2010: Connecticut Senate Race
Linda McMahon (R) 36%
Richard Blumenthal (D) 56%
Other 3%
Not sure 4%

Source: Rasmussen Reports
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Monday, February 1, 2010

South Carolina: Spratt's Lead Shrinks to 7 pts

The survey of 600 fifth Congressional district voters found [John] Spratt, who until now has been considered an untouchable Democrat, had only a seven point lead on State Sen. Mick Mulvaney.
John Spratt is going to have to fight for reelection but he’s in better shape than a lot of southern Democrats in conservative districts,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Most of his constituents still see him as a centrist, even as they see his Congressional Democratic brethren as too liberal.”
The Palmetto Scoop
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New Jersey: Pallone in Trouble Too?

State Republicans are taking a serious look at Monmouth County GOP Vice Chair Diane Gooch to run against U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), in part because of the depth of her pockets.

Gooch, who lives in Rumson and publishes the Two River Times in Red Bank, is married to Michael Gooch, the CEO of the New York-based brokerage firm GFI group who is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.    

Politicker NJ
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The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

-- Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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20th-22nd Andrew Stevenson, Virginia, Dec 03, 1827
23rd John Bell, Tennessee, Jun 02, 1834
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26th Robert M.T. Hunter, Virginia, Dec 16, 1839
27th John White, Kentucky, May 31, 1841
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29th John W. Davis, Indiana, Dec 01, 1845
30th Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts, Dec 06, 1847
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44th Michael C. Kerr, Indiana, Dec 06, 1875
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47th J. Warren Keifer, Ohio, Dec 05, 1881
48th-50th John G. Carlisle, Kentucky, Dec 03, 1883
51st Thomas B. Reed, Maine, Dec 02, 1889
52nd, 53rd Charles F. Crisp, Georgia, Dec 08, 1891
54th, 55th Thomas B. Reed, Maine, Dec 02, 1895
56th, 57th David B. Henderson, Iowa, Dec 04, 1899
58th-61st Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois, Nov 09, 1903
62nd-65th James Beauchamp Clark, Missouri, Apr 04, 1911
66th-68th Frederick H. Gillett, Massachusetts, May 19, 1919
69th-71st Nicholas Longworth, Ohio, Dec 07, 1925
72nd John N. Garner, Texas, Dec 07, 1931
73rd Henry T. Rainey, Illinois, Mar 09, 1933
74th Joseph W. Byrns, Tennessee, Jan 03, 1935
74th-76th William B. Bankhead, Alabama, Jun 04, 1936
76th-79th Sam Rayburn, Texas, Sep 16, 1940
80th Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts, Jan 03, 1947
81st, 82nd Sam Rayburn, Texas, Jan 03, 1949
83rd Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts, Jan 03, 1953
84th-87th Sam Rayburn, Texas, Jan 05, 1955
87th-91st John W. McCormack, Massachusetts, Jan 10, 1962
92nd-94th Carl B. Albert, Oklahoma, Jan 21, 1971
95th-99th Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Massachusetts, Jan 04, 1977
100th, 101st James C. Wright, Jr., Texas, Jan 06, 1987
101st-103rd Thomas S. Foley, Washington, Jun 06, 1989
104th, 105th Newt Gingrich, Georgia, Jan 04, 1995
106th-109th J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois, Jan 06, 1999
110th, 111th Nancy Pelosi, California, Jan 04, 2007
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45 Goals of the Communist Party (1963)

  • 01. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
  • 02. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
  • 03. Develop the illustion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
  • 04. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
  • 05. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
  • 06. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
  • 07. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
  • 08. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under the supervision of the U.N.
  • 09. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
  • 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
  • 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
  • 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
  • 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
  • 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
  • 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
  • 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
  • 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
  • 18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
  • 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
  • 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
  • 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
  • 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
  • 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
  • 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
  • 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
  • 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
  • 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
  • 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
  • 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
  • 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
  • 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
  • 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
  • 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
  • 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
  • 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
  • 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
  • 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
  • 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
  • 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
  • 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
  • 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
  • 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
  • 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
  • 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
  • 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.