Swing State Project

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Changeover to SoapBlox Site Complete

Posted by DavidNYC

This is the final post on the "legacy" Movable Type version of the Swing State Project. This site now resides at http://www.swingstateproject.com and is no longer being updated. You can, however, find all of our archived posts dating back to this site's origin on Oct. 19, 2003 at this location.

To reach the active Swing State Project site (running on SoapBlox), please visit http://www.swingstateproject.com. Thank you.

Posted at 10:51 PM in Site News | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Technorati

KY-02: New Internal Poll Shows Weaver Ahead

Posted by James L.

Via the Bluegrass Report comes a new DCCC/Kentucky Democratic Party poll on the 2nd district race between state legislator Mike Weaver and incumbent Republican Ron Lewis (Oct. 26-29; Sept. 22-25 in parens):

Mike Weaver (D): 46 (42)
Ron Lewis (R-Inc.): 43 (50)
MoE: ±4.9%

I've always figured that this race was a questionable longshot given the district's strong Republican lean (in federal votting patterns, not registration), but it appears that Weaver, a retired Lt. Colonel, has been able to gain traction in this district and is starting to bring registered Democrats home. The DCCC has put in nearly $200k into this district for stretch run attack ads against Lewis, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that number expand considerably in tonight's FEC filings. We might be able to steal one here.

Update: A few days ago, a Washington Post article quoted an anonymous Democratic "operative" calling the DCCC's support of Weaver "guilt money" to cleanse their consciences after cajoling Weaver into the race. I didn't buy it then (it's hard to imagine Rahm spending time worrying about people's hurt feelings when the same could be said about several other Democratic challengers this year), and I definitely don't buy it now. It seems as if some anonymous "operative" was attempting to throw off the NRCC from taking Weaver seriously (and I doubt they bought it, either, although you never know with the leakariffic culture of DC Democrats).

Posted at 04:19 PM in 2006 Elections - House, Kentucky | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Technorati

Site Switchover Coming Soon

Posted by DavidNYC

Hopefully today, we should switchover to our new Soapblox-powered site. (More on that here.) When we do, just a few things to be aware of:

• You'll need to create a new User ID to post comments and diaries - your old TypeKey IDs won't work on the new site.

• For at least the first few days, the archives will still reside on the legacy (Movable Type) site. We'll port them over as soon as we can. This means that the new site will look a bit empty for a little while - so please feel free to start posting diaries!

• And vis-a-vis that last point, links to old SSP stories, either on this site or others, will temporarily "break" until we can finish importing the old material to the new site.

You can check out the beta site here. And if you encounter any technical problems, or things don't look right on your screen, please e-mail us with a detailed description of the problem. Thanks.

Posted at 08:54 AM in Site News | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) | Technorati