Reason TV: So where are the jobs?
Uncertainty. That’s the question at the forefront of the midterm elections, of course, and Democrats have no answers. Reason TV has an explanation for why the private sector has not begun to create...
View ArticleBreaking: Bomb found on Yemen-to-US cargo flight; Update: Fox confirms...
More planes detained here in US as well. TSA has begun searching several planes in the US after British officials discovered a bomb on a Yemen-to-US cargo flight. The bomb was disguised in a toner...
View ArticleSenate polls: KY, WI, FL finishing strong; WA, PA still close
Tubular. A flurry of new polls have hit today in key Senate races, mainly confirming what we have already seen in five key contests. Rather than rehash the entire analyses, let’s just look at the...
View ArticleSo much for the VA-05 firewall
Hurting. Democrats have to take a stand somewhere for their midterm firewall in the House, and according to Politico, they have dug the trench in Virginia’s 5th CD. The DCCC has spent hundreds of...
View ArticleWhitman coming back in CA?
Back within MOE. After a series of polls showed Meg Whitman losing ground to Jerry Brown in the California gubernatorial race, hope had begun to dim at keeping Brown from getting a third term in office...
View ArticleSurvey USA: Dead heat in Minnesota gubernatorial race
But Demmer slipping in MN-01? Forget what the Star Tribune and Humphrey Institute polls have said over the past week. Survey USA shows the gubernatorial race as essentially tied with four days left to...
View ArticleChange: O’Donnell within 10 in new Monmouth poll
Surge? The good news: With four days to go, she’s only down 10. The bad news: With four days to go, she’s still down 10. In the past two weeks, Republican Christine O’Donnell has narrowed Democrat...
View ArticleRock bottom: Crist advisor confirms that he’ll caucus with the Democrats;...
Pathetic. My interest in this race has now passed the point of merely wanting Rubio to win — which, by the way, according to Mason Dixon’s pollster, is a take-it-to-the-bank lock even if Meek’s...
View ArticleObama: Yes, two of the UPS packages contain explosive material
Credible threats. That’s what the initial tests say, anyway; as I recall, false positives aren’t unheard of during preliminary examinations. When I first heard about this today, I thought maybe jihadis...
View ArticleBrutal new attack ad: John Adams is kind of a hermaphrodite, isn’t he?
Gloves off. To cleanse the palate, a cheeky reminder from Reason TV that, as with so many other things, when it comes to political attacks the Founding Fathers simply did it at a higher level than we...
View ArticleGulp: New poll shows Murkowski up by double digits
Horror. Ed and I have been trying to game out how we’ll handle blogging the late late late night returns on Tuesday from Alaska. I’d been dreading having to post at 4 a.m., but now I’m looking forward...
View ArticleFinal meltdown begins: “We’ve lost our minds,” says John Kerry of midterms
Plus: Biden! Grayson! Krugman! All whining! In case you need another reason to be annoyed at the Stewart/Colbert rally this weekend, here’s one: It’s going to suck up all the media oxygen at a moment...
View ArticleTime mag: Dem committee heads may follow Pelosi and retire after vote
Oh yes. Via JWF, my sense/hope is that conservative enthusiasm is already as high as it can go. But in case you’re bummed that most of the wizened Democratic leadership comes from monolithically blue...
View ArticleHot new MoveOn ad campaign: You can’t stomp on me, Republicans
Hmmm. They’re of course playing off the incident outside that Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate earlier this week, which to the left is an indictment of every tea partier in the world and to the other 80...
View ArticleKendrick Meek: Crist offered me his sister’s cross to get me to drop out
It's come to this. I think this is going to be my last Crist post of the year, guys. I can’t deal with it anymore. Even a devout cynic can only take so much. Mr. Crist, the Florida governor, had called...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Mockapalooza. “Interviews with some of the tens of thousands of people expected to attend suggest that they want a message, not a simple comedy show… “‘To me, Stewart is almost saying, it’s so...
View ArticleNARN, the Home Stretch Edition!
1-3 pm CT, with live video & chat! The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with our four-hour-long broadcast schedule starting at 11 am CT. If you’re in the Twin Cities, you...
View ArticleSurvey USA: Oberstar, Cravaack in dead heat for MN-08 seat
Bike-path-ageddon? Could the Republican wave that looks about to wash across the nation reach as far as Minnesota’s Iron Range and unseat an 18-term Democrat? Three months ago, this seat didn’t appear...
View ArticleReid: Hey, I don’t carry water for the President!
I just carry it for the Establishment! Why does Harry Reid find himself on the brink of involuntary retirement? Pam Key at The Blaze finds a clue in this clip from an interview this week in which Reid...
View ArticleCollett hits McCollum with updated “AQ poses no threat” web video
Get it on the air. Teresa Collett and her campaign didn’t take long to revamp one of their web videos from earlier this week to add an “urgent update.” In a debate for the Congressional election in...
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