When the end times arrive, you’ll thank your buddy Glenn Beck for selling you all that overpriced gold and you can toast him with supplies from the special survival pack that Beck is also hawking:
While your neighbors are struggling to find food, you will be dining on lasagna, beef stroganoff, and a variety of other delicious entrees. What’s more, this food will retain its nutritional value and freshness for up to ten years.
The West Virginia Senate race, which seems to be shifting in favor of Gov. John Manchin (D) held its only debate tonight. It was, our Eric Kleefeld tells us, hardly a debate at all.
For the most part, the four candidates seemed to use the night as an opportunity to present themselves for the first time to the voting audience. Republican businessman John Raese pitched himself as a man of the right; Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin put himself forward as a man of the commonsense middle; Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson, the candidate of the state’s Green Party affiliate, was a man of the left; and Constitution Party candidate Jeff Becker was a man of the loony bin.
Read the rest here.
There are a lot of subterranean efforts afoot around the country right now to suppress the vote of various racial minorities. But a group styling itself Latinos for Reform is taking a more straightforward approach: they’re running ads in Nevada asking Latino voters simply not to vote.
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When Richard DeVos, the Michigan billionaire who founded Amway and is a generous contributor to Republican causes, gives $150,000 to the Republican National Lawyers Association just a few weeks before the midterm elections, it makes you sit up and take notice. In the realm of political giving, $150,000 isn’t that much money, but the RNLA doesn’t buy TV ads, it has barely a handful of full-time staffers, and its overall budget is relatively modest. So what does the RNLA do and what did DeVos figure he’d be supporting with that money? Read More
Jack Conway went on Hardball this afternoon to keep up his Aqua Buddha fusillade and defend his attacks on Rand Paul. Watch the video here.
I didn’t think he was quite as prepped as he might have been. And he didn’t note one salient point: that Paul hasn’t denied that any of this stuff happened. But he stuck to his guns.
I would say this though; and I think it’s a point Matthews, who really went after Conway, missed. The ad hits Paul on a key and very valid point: he’s a fraud. A through and through fraud. He’s a longtime devotee of Ayn Rand and he’s passing himself off to Kentucky voters as a bible-believing “pro-life Christian.” As Jon Chait notes in a post otherwise lambasting the ad, nothing in Paul’s lengthy public record suggests that’s true.
Late Update: Extra bonus Aqua Buddha moment: Factcheck.org gives Aqua Buddha ad a thumbs up.
In today’s Chart of the Day see how anonymous outside spending groups have transformed the funding of political campaigns in 2010 — overwhelmingly in Republicans favor. And most of it is because of that Citizens United decision. Take a look.
We’re watching Jack Conway’s appearance on Hardball. And man, Matthews is going off on Conway, who doesn’t seem quite as prepared as I’d have expected him to be. The key for Conway is that Paul — for all his fury — has never denied doing any of these things.
Alaska Senate GOP candidate Joe Miller tells voters America should look to the example of East Germany as a good model of effective border security.
You probably heard that Senate candidate Joe Miller had his security team ‘arrest’ a journalist asking questions about one of Miller’s scandals and held him in handcuffs for more than an hour before police arrived. It turns out ‘DropZone,’ which handles Miller’s security, is a multi-service operation. They double as a military surplus store, bail bond enforcers and concert security. Our Jillian Rayfield talked to chief DropZoner William Fulton and the Anchorage PD’s Lt. Dave Parker to find out more.
Based on the emails we’re getting it’s fair to say that our readers, or at least the ones who are taking the time to write in (which is a lot), overwhelmingly, almost unanimously love Jack Conway’s ad whacking Rand Paul over ‘Aqua Buddha’ and see resistance to that kind of politicking as a root flaw of the Democratic party.
See the ad here. Readers are responding to this question.