SSP Daily Digest: 3/12 (Morning Edition)

  • KY-Sen: Mmm, I love a good R-on-R dogfight, especially when the less palatable Republican has the upper hand. Trey Grayson, way behind in the polls to insurgent nut-winger Rand Paul, is getting the “weirdo” meme started nice and early, planting the seed that will compromise Paul’s electability in a general election. In a new ad, Grayson accuses Paul of having “weird ideas” on foreign policy that include the shut-down of Guantanamo and the deportation of “Al-Qaeda terrorists back to their home countries”. Paul has fired back with an ad of his own, accusing Grayson of supporting Bill Clinton in the ’90s and — gasp! — “issuing a welcoming statement” to Barack Obama after his inauguration. (JL)
  • NY-Sen-B: This isn’t really new news, I guess, since his name had already been floated. But it looks like GOPers in NY and elsewhere are putting increased pressure on former deputy White House Press Secretary Dan Senor to jump into the race against Kirsten Gillibrand. Personally, I love the idea of a former Bushbot running statewide in NY.
  • NY-Gov: AG Andrew Cuomo wisely handed off his investigation of Gov. David Paterson’s alleged misdeeds to an independent counsel, in this case the universally respected former chief judge of the state of New York, Judith Kaye. Speaking of which, how come no one is talking impeachment? New York law provides for it, even if it hasn’t been done in a hundred years.
  • MN-06: Alert! Alert! Crazybomb set to detonate in Minnesota on April 7! Sarah Palin to stump for Michele Bachmann! TAKE COVER!!!
  • PA-12: Republican bigwigs have chosen businessman Tim Burns as their candidate over 2008 nominee and BMW Direct frontman Bill Russell. The final vote was 85 Burns, 46 Russell, leading Russell to proclaim that “the fix was in.” While Burns is likely the strong candidate, the good news for Dems is that Russell vows to fight on, insisting that “This is the Republican Party of PA, not the Communist Party of North Korea.” I love the smell of cat fud in the morning.
  • Polling: Nate Silver takes a look at the house effects of the five most prolific polling firms this cycle. (This includes blechy Internet pollster YouGov, though.) And here’s a bit of info that confirms something we probably all believed: Rasmussen, R2K and PPP account for two thirds of all public Senate polls conducted this cycle. I wish more pollsters (SUSA, for instance) would step up.

    • 12 thoughts on “SSP Daily Digest: 3/12 (Morning Edition)”

    1. unless news media outlets start commissioning more polls from them. I assume the recession has hurt local ad revenues and local media profits so much that spending money on a SUSA poll seems extravagant.

      I still find it incredible that we haven’t seen a single public poll of the IA-Gov GOP primary since Branstad got in the race.

    2. The story of Gov. William Sulzer is a great one. I love that only in New York could someone get impeached for being honest! Nice to see our state government is just as much a cesspool today as it was 100 years ago.

    3. With Survey USA on the sidelines for whatever reason they are the number one pollster in America right now in my book. Congrats.

    4. Maybe it’s just me but that doesn’t sound like an improvement over Blakeman.  Why would the former spokesman for the worst government ever assembled (Iraq’s Provisional Government) be electable in New York or anywhere for that matter?

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