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:
* For the first time in recent memory, all four of the Republican presidential candidates are taking the day off and have no scheduled events.
* Rep. Tim Johnson (R-Ill.), just a month after winning a primary fight, made a surprise retirement announcement yesterday. Johnson, who has served six terms, will end his career at the end of the year.
* If the Texas Republican Party made its upcoming presidential primary winner take all, it could give Rick Santorum a big boost in delegates. Is that likely? The Texas GOP is at least thinking about it.
* A new poll in Indiana shows incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar (R) leading his primary opponent, to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, by single digits, 42% to 35%.
* In Wisconsin, the state Republican Party has lined up six fake Democrats to run nuisance primary campaigns.
* In New York, Mitt Romney has a 33-point lead over Santorum among the state's Republican primary voters. The Empire State's primary is scheduled for April 24.
* Also in New York, Quinnipiac shows Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) maintaining a sky-high approval rating, with 68% of voters in the state giving the governor a thumbs-up.
* And finally, the Obama/Biden campaign has a new tactic to highlight Romney's frequent falsehoods: fact-checking videos. The first debuted this week, and it was soon followed by a second a day later.
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Rmoney, because at least 1% of America deserves to be prosperous!
Trollop...
You are confused. RMoney is not the candidate of the 1%! He is the candidate of the 1/10 of 1%ers.
You are partially correct. The 1/10 of 1%ers know that they deserve to have one of their own ruling the country. Especially when it is one of their own who is not afraid to show his contempt and scorn for the peon classes.
A new poll in Indiana shows incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar (R) leading his primary opponent, to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, by single digits, 42% to 35%.
There has been huge amounts of tv advertising in Indianapolis now for quite a while. About 2/3rds of the ads during the local news programs is political ads. Virtually all of the Lugar & Murdoch ads are negative. Murdoch is a teabagger idiot and Lugar has foregone past positions and principles to run as a reich-winger. What @ssholes!
For more than the last month, it has been pass the popcorn and enjoy the show entertaining.
I do hope that the repuke presidential race is still going early next month when the primaries are held in Indiana. As my black, muslim congress-critter is running unopposed in the dem primary, I intend to get a repuke ballot and vote for Man-On-Dog and The Teabagger Candidate to get the repuke nominations to run for president and senator.
Why would Texas Republicans would have any problem changing the way they allocate delegates? The primary isn't until May 29, and the actual election of delegates may not happen until after that.
It isn't like there have been hard and fast rules for the allocation of delegates in other states. Michigan changed its rules for awarding at-large delegates after the election. Nobody seems to know exactly HOW the delegates are being divided up in several states.
By making it winner-take-all, at least Texas would be making its allocation rules easier to follow.
TIme for another Mitt's mendacity chronicle.
Romney, again made the same "he made the recession worse claim" at the AP luncheon.
AFTER it has been debunked many times and AFTER Romney himself admitted that Obama did not make the recession worse.
The man is pathological.
where is the CHRONICLES OF MITT'S MENDACITY COLUMN?
this would be TWO WEEKS without it
"In Wisconsin, the state Republican Party has lined up six fake Democrats to run nuisance primary campaigns."
According to an elections attorney this constitutes fraud, since the WI constitution states that the candidate must represent the party that they run under, which is clearly not the case with these six. Since it is clear that they entered the Democratic primary to delay the recall election till June, this is further evidence of their crime. Punishable by 3 years in jail!
The WI democratic party needs to get on this. I have been afraid that the democrats votes would be split between democrat opponets and he wouldn't get recalled after all - and that would be a shame.
The fact that Republicans have to stoop to running fake candidates demostrates their desperation with the recalls. This is a cynical ploy and Dems should use these fake candidates to bludgeon the Republicans in the recalls. The voters anger can be directed to the Republicans for using these tactics. Toss in the Koch Bros. money and Dems have plenty of ammo to go after the Republicans. After the Dem primaries, the Dems need to unify and get behind one candidate because there will be only a short interlude until the election.
This is really getting to be beyond disgusting. Have their constituents have no principle whatsoever? I mean I am all for my party to be re-elected, but I would never support a win by cheating.
While we keep talking about the nation deficit, maybe it is the deficit in our moral that needs to be fixed?
If there is an afterlife, I wonder when the GOP are roasting if they will smell like pork.
Rachel asked last night on the story about Michigan how anyone could to 73 that fast. There is a real easy answer for this question. You see, the Republicans in the Michigan legislature took away all the chairs from the Democrats. Therefore, all the House leadership must do is look over at the Democrats, see them all standing, and voila, it's unanimous; "immediate effect".
ROFL....OMG...that was the best explanation ever.....! Totally make sense now and I really didn't have a hard time imagining it.