The AP ran a poll story yesterday painting a pretty dark picture for the Democrats based on big defections among Obama voters. A number of readers noted that the piece seemed a little misleading since the poll actually showed the roughly the same amount of Obama voters were defecting from Dems as McCain voters were bailing on Republicans (obviously the absolute number of Obama voters was greater — but then again no one is expecting the Dems to kick the GOP’s butts in two weeks.)
But now they’ve released the Congressional Generic ballot number. And it actually has the Dems up by 5 points.
Now, that number is way off the average of other recent congressional generics. And it was taken more than ten days ago. So I don’t think there’s much to read into this one particular poll. But what the AP drew out of it seems pretty odd in its proper context.
If you’re running for office, probably best to keep your significant other from mouthing off to your opponent in the presence of a press scrum.
*Cough* Barney Frank *Cough*.
I’m fascinated by the divide among Democrats in reaction to Jack Conway’s fusillade over the weekend against Rand Paul. I first saw the ‘Aqua Buddha’ ad late Saturday afternoon in an email blast from Conway campaign. And my jaw dropped. What’s fascinating to me isn’t just the divergence of opinion but the intensity on both sides. There seems to be no middle ground. Read More
Justice Department files amicus brief in Tennessee mosque case: Yes, Islam is a religion.
Sharron Angle showed up to speak to some Latino high school students. But they weren’t crazy about the fact that her ads trashing illegal immigrants showed a big scary picture of some Latino guys like them. Angle responded that she wasn’t sure they were Latinos. They might just be terrorists. And in any case, she said, you sure all of you are Latino? “Some of you look a little more Asian to me.”
Rand Paul threatening to pull out of final Kentucky Senate debate after Sunday night thrashing.
The nastiest debate of the season (Conway v. Paul) condensed down to 2 minutes and 44 seconds for your viewing pleasure. Watch it.
I shall not deign to shaketh your hand, Sir!@
Can a candidate’s private security team ‘arrest’ a journalist and detain him with handcuffs for asking questions he’s told not to ask? I wouldn’t have thought so. But that’s what happened yesterday in Alaska with Senate hopeful Joe Miller and Tony Hopfinger, the founder and editor of the Alaska Dispatch.
See the video.
I’m hearing a lot of whining today on my Teevee from Democrats about Jack Conway’s ad hitting Rand Paul. Appalling, wrong, brought it on himself. Oh please.
I’m sure we can all agree that it would have been better for Jack Conway to go ahead and lose his race in dignity and fairmindedness than resort to this accursed awfulness, matching Rand in the dignity of the campaign he’s run. Voters resonate with candidates who don’t attack their opponents and ignore attacks on themselves because their unwillingness to defend themselves signals steelymindedness and strength.