Evan McMorris-Santoro reports in from the Christine O’Donnell rally in Wilmington that she announced that she will be airing a 30-minute statewide TV ad tonight and again tomorrow.
The latest PPP poll of the Kentucky Senate race gives Rand Paul a 15-point lead over Jack Conway.
I fear there are quite a few people will be missing on Wednesday morning. One for me though is going to be Carl Paladino. Before he shuffles off this electoral coil, check out this little moment from the end of last week where he gets miffed and walks off in the middle of an interview.
Every so often I’ll find something when I’m working on the planning/publishing side of our operation that I think might interest you. Click through to read more only if you’re up for some discussion of how many people read TPM on mobile devices. Read More
PPP just came in with results of a new poll of the Alaska Senate race and results are just deeply weird. One thing I’ll say is that this may really be the race whose outcome is more difficult to predict than any other in the country.
The big eye-popper from the poll is that McAdams, the Dem, and the guy no one has really expected to win, is dramatically more popular than either Miller or Murkowski. Not to say he has more support, he doesn’t. But his favorable numbers are much, much better than either Miller or Murkowski. Miller’s favorability rating is 36% to 59%. Basically people totally hate the guy. Read More
Gov. Ted Strickland (D) has come back from the dead in Ohio, where the latest Quinnipiac poll shows him in a dead heat with former Rep. John Kasich (R). Kasich polls at 47 percent, Strickland at 46 percent.
According to Quinnipiac: “Strickland, who had trailed by double digits earlier in the fall campaign, is leading among Democrats 90 – 6 percent, but Kasich is ahead among Republicans 83 – 10 percent and independent voters 57 – 36 percent in the survey completed Saturday of those who say they are likely to vote or have already cast their ballots.” Read More
Taking a cold eye to the electoral map, you’d have to say that as of today the most likely outcome tomorrow is that Democrats keep the Senate majority even as the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid goes down to defeat in Nevada. Brian Beutler looks at the fierce — but, out of respect, quiet — race to succeed Reid as the top dog in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Even as many prognosticators were handing the hard-fought Washington Senate race to incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D), I couldn’t ever quite close the book on this one in my own mind. It just didn’t seem like a done deal yet. Now we have a new poll out this morning from Public Policy Polling showing Murray trailing Republican Dino Rossi 50-48.
Of the six polls on this race in the last week, Rasmussen was the only other one to give Rossi a lead. In the rest, Murray was leading, in one by as many as 6-points. Whether it’s differing methodologies or a truly volatile race, I don’t know. But I’d keep a close eye on this one.
If the last time you checked in at TPM was when you shut down your computer at the office Friday evening, then let me direct your attention to our coverage of that tiny gathering of marginalized far-left ne’er do wells who assembled Saturday in the National Mall to listen to a couple of has-been comedians:
The Big Rally4Sanity Slideshow
“For Those Of You Who Couldn’t See A Thing” Slideshow
This is still my favorite image of the gazillions we’ve looked through: Read More
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who heads up the National Republican Senatorial Committee, conceded this morning that the GOP will not win a majority in the Senate.