Don’t worry – the daily digest isn’t going anywhere. We’re just switching to a morning publishing schedule, so we had to skip today to get us in sync. A piping-fresh DD will be ready for your breakfast consumption tomorrow. In the meantime, you can use this as an open thread for all your heart’s (electoral) desires.
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Electorally, at least for presidential elections, let’s bury the idea that the states of the Confederacy are a bloc. Florida and Texas are both unique, and VA and NC are more and more like Colorado while WV–created in reaction against the Confederacy–and KY are more like TN, northern AL and MS, AR, OK and Missouri than they are like the coastal states south of Maryland.
District 5B: Carly Melin won the special election last night, and will replace former Majority leader Tony Sertich in that chamber.
This seems like a GREAT pickup opportunity, and Bredesen looks like a great candidate. What are the odds of him getting in the race? From what I gather, Corker isn’t damaged as much as Bredesen is mega popular, so I am going to guess a tea party won’t change they race dynamics much.
I mean hell, he got by the largest margin in Tennessee history back in 2006.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/…
Not a big surprise but welcome all the same.
http://www.advocate.com/News/D…
Christine Quinn a possible candidate would be the first woman and lesbian mayor of the largest city in the country.
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns…
He wins with 57.1% of the vote, enough to get him straight to the State Senate to pass a voter referendum to extend a revenue plan that is crucial to the state’s budget.
Apparently they raise $4.4M in January, good number except that leaves them still about $16M in the hole…
Counting down till the NRCC releases their number in response, I woudn’t be surprised if they raised closer to $10M and retired all their debt, nothing like a new majority to get those checks rolling in…
I wish pollsters looking at R Pres primaries would poll for scenarios where Palin runs and Huckabee doesn’t, or vice versa.
After Bruce Braley’s narrow escape (facing $1.6 million in outside spending against him and barely beating a little-known challenger 49.5 percent to 47.5 percent), he is reinventing himself as a deficit hawk. Wouldn’t be my image-making choice, but I understand why he’s trying.
Most people think Braley’s district will expand to include a bunch of NE Iowa counties currently represented by Tom Latham (R, IA-04). While most people expect Latham to run in the new IA-03, he could end up facing Braley in the new IA-01 instead. Latham has a lot of money in his campaign account, and the NRCC will put up money for his race, since he is Boehner’s buddy. I believe Latham is trying to somewhat moderate his image going into the next cycle.
Congratulations on your outing/job announcement on DKos today. I’m a huge fan of your profile picture.
Will consider it if Kaine stays out. Typical beltway “liberal” nonsense in the article.
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
my latest pet interests in the world of politics lately has taken me overseas towards Australia where I’ve been watching the election in the Australian state of New South Wales (where Sydney is) with great fascination. Seeing how I have a 4 day weekend coming up and not much to do, should I try to post a diary here detailing the state election there or am I wasting my time?
Got word that the announcement has been made on DK, in the morning digest, with little fanfare ref http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
I’ll plan to post tomorrow evening, 6pm Pacific time.
If you’ve read it early on, it’s gone through some revisions, courtesy of suggestions from several users.
If you haven’t read it yet, here are the titles:
For anyone who isn’t kept up on Wisconsin politics, the short version is Scott Walker proposed a bill to take away bargaining rights from public unions. Like teacher’s unions, etc.
18,000 people protested at the capital the other day and servers shut down because state Reps. and Senators e-mails were full.
Wisconsin even hit international news with this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…
sigh Cannot wait to start turning this all around with the State Supreme Court race in April.
Only Huckabee performs better, trailing Obama by three. Bush polls 44-48 against Obama, with Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Paul, and Trump (???) further behind.
Not sure what to make of this. Wait a minute, I think my brain is goinAAAAAARGGGH
While the afternoon DD is something to look forward too, I love waking up to the DD.
if Kaine runs and Deval Patrick leaves the governorship to become DNC chair, how would you feel about this?
Say Tim Kaine runs and wins in Virginia. When was the last time both senators were previous governors of a particular state?
What state(s) has two current Senators, who, prior to their Senate runs, had never sought or held political office before? I know of at least one off the top of my head.
The biggest new feature IMO is that VA political data is available. There are some bugs though (i.e., you can’t shade the map by political data, and it seems like if you delete a whole district, its political percentages won’t show up if you redraw it).
Excluding at-large states, what states’ House delegations were all first elected under the current map (i.e. all members were first elected in 2002 or later)?
There are six states.
Webb and Obama saying they hope Kaine runs. What happens if Kaine runs, wins, but doesn’t like the job? with Kaine are they just kicking the can down the road until either a republican wins, or a dem who wants the seat gets it?
http://politicalwire.com/archi…