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Hill poll shows GOP leading in 11 of 12 races against frosh House incumbents
Narrow but steady. The Hill engaged Democratic pollster Mark Penn to take a look at a dozen key House races where incumbents owed their seats to Barack Obama’s 2008 coattails, and not surprisingly,...
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Axelrod, WH deny Hillary-for-Biden swap in 2012
The Rice maneuver? You knew it was too good to last: A tantalizing notion has gained steam around Washington in recent months: President Obama will toss Vice President Biden off the ticket in 2012 and...
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Video: A cover-up on Able Danger?
What did we know, and when? This story goes back several years, in the wake of the 9/11 Commission report and a topic that got considerable play in the blogosphere in 2005. Did a database-mining...
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AP poll shows working-class white voters swinging back to GOP
Latinos in play for GOP in Pew poll. Two pollsters bring more bad news to Democrats. A new AP poll shows that the constituency that lifted Democrats to victories in 2006 and 2008 has all but abandoned...
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ADP: Private sector cut 39,000 jobs in September
Unexpectedly! If Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats hoped to get some good news in the last employment report before the midterm elections, they may find themselves sorely disappointed — and...
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Another brilliant moment in AGW marketing
Ad nauseam. Because nothing sells policy like, er, images of people killing children. Andrew Bolt alerts Australian readers to the latest in marketing from anthropogenic global-warming activists, this...
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Judge bars “giant witness” in embassy bombings trial because of enhanced...
Predictable. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder insisted on moving trials for al-Qaeda defendants to the federal court system rather than the military commissions system that Congress has authorized...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty, Guy Benson
3 pm ET! Today, The Ed Morrissey Show returns to its normal schedule (3 pm ET) and welcomes back Jim Geraghty of Campaign Spot at National Review. Jim will bring us up to the moment on the exciting...
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Video: Hare calls deficit, debt a “myth”
Kind of like the Constitution, huh? The last we heard from Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL), he impressed voters nationwide by assuring us that he didn’t care about the Constitution when creating law in Congress....
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Raese now leads Manchin by 6 in Rasmussen poll
Momentum. This race was, like Connecticut, supposed to be a safe harbor for Democrats in a very stormy season. Now it looks as though their decision to have Joe Manchin run for the remainder of Robert...
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Cook to Democrats: Too little, too late
The wave is coming; the amplitude is all that's in doubt. Democrats have tried building some new spin from polls like the WaPo/ABC travesty dumped yesterday, claiming to have captured momentum and...
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Goldman Sachs: Economy may be “fairly bad” next 6-9 months
And that's the good news. The American economy may be “fairly bad” for the next six to nine months, says Goldman Sachs, and that may be the best-case scenario. The other option is “very bad.” GS says...
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Video: Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Staff Sgt. Robert Miller
Uncommon valor. I’m going to give you three options for learning more about Miller’s stupendous act of bravery, one of which comes with a strong recommendation. The first is this WaPo story recounting...
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Fairleigh Dickinson poll: Coons 53, O’Donnell 36
Hmmm. There are actually two polls out today, one from FDU and the other from the University of Delaware showing Coons up 19, but the latter is a poll of … randomly selected Delaware adults. Why on...
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Joe Miller: Of course Palin’s legally qualified to be president
"The Palins are good friends of mine." Skip ahead to 4:30 for a little damage control after last night’s e-mail leak. Naturally HuffPo and Mediaite are conveniently omitting the flattering things...
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CNN poll: Reid down to … 40%
Crater. It’s still a nailbiter: Angle leads by just two thanks to Scott Ashjian and “none of the above” being on the ticket. I can’t believe, though, that Nevadans who go to the polls on election day...
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Video: “The Socialist”
Defriending. Ben Howe (with brother Caleb Howe) hits it out of the park yet again. His first video “The Last Best Hope” was goose bump-y. This one is too, but in a different way. A take-off of the film...
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Glenn Beck: We must defend Fred Phelps’s right to picket soldiers’ funerals
Free speech vs. privacy. Must we? Even the Supreme Court sounds like it’s not sure. Via McClatchy, a report on this morning’s oral arguments in the hotly anticipated Snyder v. Westboro Baptist Church...
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Jan Brewer: Why are foreign governments submitting briefs in the DOJ’s...
Interference. Maybe I’m mellowing with age but this strikes me as less unreal now than it did a few months ago. A question for the lawyers in the audience: There’s nothing unusual about foreign nations...
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Emerging 2012 strategy for Democrats: Marijuana
"Moving forward, these kinds of initiatives could have a coattail effect for Democratic candidates." I’ve been trying to tell you that it’s time to get out in front of this issue. And now … it’s too...
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