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!@
Rand Paul threatening to pull out of final Kentucky Senate debate after Sunday night thrashing.
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.”
Justice Department files amicus brief in Tennessee mosque case: Yes, Islam is a religion.
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
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*.
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.
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.
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.