Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* The final PPP poll out of Michigan shows Rick Santorum edging past Mitt Romney by the narrowest of margins, 38% to 37%. This is, it's worth noting, based on one night's worth of data, and most other recent polls show Romney with a small lead.
* Romney's favorability numbers are down sharply among self-identified conservatives in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
* Newt Gingrich said yesterday the U.S. should tell Afghan citizens to "figure out how to live your own miserable life." Classy.
* On a related note, thanks to a cash infusion from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Gingrich's super PAC is making a major new ad buy, airing commercials in Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kansas.
* Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) announced a couple of weeks ago that he will not seek a comeback bid in Nebraska. He reportedly told party officials this week that he's changed his mind.
* In Rhode Island, a new WPRI poll shows incumbent Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) cruising past Republican challenger Barry Hinckley, 50% to 28%.
* In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) has decided to scrap plans to challenge the massive number of recall petitions filed against him.
* And on a related note, the Wisconsin Democratic Party has launched its first television ad of the recall cycle.
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Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) announced a couple of weeks ago that he will not seek a comeback bid in Nebraska. He reportedly told party officials this week that he's changed his mind.
This could have been a good ploy by him.
Newt saying to leave Afghanistan, without somehow implying POB screwed-up somehow, is refreshing. Sometimes a bit of sincerity slips out whether you want it to or not.
He meant leave Afghanistan and go to Iran and Syria. Read between the lines. After all the last thing we ever get from the right is any hint to their real agenda.
The book, “Day of Thunder
Years of Woe,” says that America is at war and is in danger of losing to
multinational corporations that are controlled by foreign countries. The book
declares that Republican congressional and State candidates are actually
telling their voters that they will shrink and weaken the government. Then the
government will be too weak to fight off corporate lobbyists. Is any of this
true? If so, it is bone chilling scary!
Yeah, I'd like to compile some stuff to see if there is conspiracy by some Governors and Corporate Sponsors of elected officials to seize control from the people/voters and use debt as a convenient way to undermine democracy. As in the Michigan cities, they created a way to remove power from voters and give it to designated party. I just hate how they feel empowered to remove democracy and install a dictator, so to speak.
Walker interpreted his election as if he were coming in and dismantling contracts and changing rules. Better start to look at what is between the lines when they say "I will reduce deficit".
Funny, just last Wednesday I saw Kerrey at the New School with Russ Feingold where Kerrey said definitively that he was not running again because he "didn't want to get divorced a second time."
Don't put any faith in Bob Erlich, former Repub Gov of MD. Total disaster.