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Rothenberg warns Dems that Senate can still be lost
And right on cue ... After Christine O’Donnell won the Republican nomination for the Senate race in Delaware, Democrats appeared to heave a sigh of relief. The long-shot path to losing the Senate...
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Breaking: Emanuel to leave WH tomorrow, AP reports; Update: Rouse as interim...
Toddling off. Two sources close to Rahm Emanuel tell the Associated Press that he will resign as chief of staff to Barack Obama and head back to Chicago for a run at the mayor’s office. He’s...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Shannon Goessling, John Randall
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times joins us to bring us up to date on Capitol Hill stories. Kerry will tell us about her interview with Barney...
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Video: The Townhall remix “ad” for Grayson
"Loves Satan!" We have to give some serious kudos to our Salem brethren at Townhall, especially new political editor Guy Benson, who narrates this self-proclaimed “fake message” that attempts to feed...
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Tax-rate class warfare backfiring on Democrats?
Still not getting it. Democrats hoped to drive a wedge in the electorate with some class-warfare rhetoric on tax hikes coming at the end of the year, painting the GOP as the party of the rich and...
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Finding out what’s in ObamaCare: McDonald’s needs waiver for health-care...
Du-du du du du ... ain't lovin' it. No good deed goes unpunished. McDonald’s takes a lot of heat for the nutritive value of its menu, usually from self-assigned food nannies, but the company did try...
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Video: Camp Politics and free speech
The Lambs of The Silence. My friends at the Institute for Justice have a new project, Protecting Citizen Speech, which defends the First Amendment from government encroachment by politicians looking to...
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Surrender: New Rasmussen poll shows Russ Feingold down … 12 points
Bye bye. Do I need to say anything or is this trendline from HuffPo’s poll of polls sufficient? Follow the HuffPo link and scroll down to the see the hard numbers. The race was tight all through...
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GOP nominee for governor to NY Post editor: I’ll take you out
It's on. We’re late to this one, but oh well. The editor in question is Fred Dicker, who’s covered Albany for the Post since forever and whom Paladino accuses of being in the tank for Andrew Cuomo...
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Gloria Allred: I have the Social Security letter about Whitman’s maid — with...
"This is a baseless smear attack." Via the boss emeritus, who’s not happy. The Whitman household, contrary to the candidate’s flat denials, did in fact receive the red-flag letter six years ago....
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Quotes of the day
Going negative. “The Democratic Party right now is showing signs of coming apart, under the pressure of the election and two years of an unpopular presidency. But it’s not a split in two, with the left...
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Obamateurism of the Day
The Gospel, according to John. The national media has begun noticing that Barack Obama has spoken more often about his faith during public appearances, probably after polls showed that around half of...
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NRCC response ad: Grayson a national embarrassment
"Is this news to you that this guy's one fry short of a Happy Meal?" If Dan Webster hadn’t found a theme for his campaign before last weekend, Alan Grayson managed to hand it to the him and the NRCC...
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Q-poll in FL puts Scott up over Sink by six
Turning red. Republicans got more good news from Florida besides the commanding lead in the Senate race for Marco Rubio. A new Quinnipiac poll corroborates an earlier Rasmussen poll showing Rick...
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Hispanic voters drifting back to the GOP
Narratives. Democrats have tried wooing Hispanic voters all year long, and thought they had a golden opportunity in April when Arizona passed a tough immigration-enforcement law. Barack Obama leaped...
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Sanchez: CNN run by the Jews
Oh, and Jon Stewart's a bigot, too. CNN just overhauled its executive roster. Their on-air lineup may be about to change again, too. Mediaite reports on what looks like a career flameout by host Rick...
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Indie Lt Gov candidate in MA defects, endorses GOP ticket
Ouch. Charlie Baker has begun to take momentum in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race despite having to contend with an independent bid from former Democrat Tim Cahill in his bid to unseat Democratic...
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Rasmussen: Democratic affiliation hits eight-year low
Independents the New Cool. Media outlets using polls that oversample Democrats might have missed this not-exactly shocking trend. Rasmussen has polled on party affiliation since 2002, and this month...
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Obama: Can’t a fellow just take a Tuscan break?
You know, the better to "free the slaves," or something. After spending most of Recovery Summer on some sort of vacation and/or golf course, one might expect a young President like Barack Obama to feel...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: The Week in Review with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson
Hugh Hewitt's deconstruction of Gloria Allred & more at 3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh...
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