Ms. Kennedy says she wants Hillary Clinton’s seat.
Steve Clemons encapsulates my thoughts pitch-perfectly:
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BLAGOJEVICH BLUSTER IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
December 10th, 2008, 10:25 am by Dan Lehr
CAROLINE? NO.
December 9th, 2008, 9:04 am by Dan Lehr
Caroline Kennedy reportedly wants to fill Hillary Clinton’s shoes in the New York Senate seat.
There are two schools of thought on this.
CORKER QUESTIONS CARMAKERS, AGAIN
December 4th, 2008, 5:20 pm by Dan LehrPlease enable Javascript and Flash to view this Brightcove video.
Great that the senator (& others) are holding their feet to the fire, but where the heck was this kind of scrutiny/outrage/demand for accountability with the heads of all the financial institutions that were bailed out with 20 times the money? Just asking.
FURTHER READING ON THE AUTO BAILOUT:
THE SENATE’S NEW SWINGERS
December 4th, 2008, 11:15 am by Dan Lehr
Minnesota’s still (still!) up in the air, but with Tuesday’s Chambliss win, the makeup of the U.S. Senate for 2009 is closer to taking shape.
Nate Silver gives a rough ranking of which Senators find themselves mattering the most:
COULD CORKER END UP RIDING THE AUTO BAILOUT BUS?
December 3rd, 2008, 9:50 am by Dan Lehr
Right at Home’s John Scott reads the tea leaves in a response he got from a letter he sent the senator opposing the Big 3 bailout (his emphasis added):
SAXBY WINS
December 3rd, 2008, 8:31 am by Dan Lehr
Read the runoff results here - it was a(n expected) blowout: 57% to 42%.
I’ll have NewsChannel 9 viewing area county results & my thoughts on who really stands to gain with this victory after the jump.
IT’S THE NIGHT THAT THE LIGHTS WILL GO OUT FOR SOMEONE
December 2nd, 2008, 8:34 am by Dan Lehr
Today’s runoff day.
Polls in Georgia are open until 7.
What’s at stake?
Some good analysis from Time Magazine’s Michael Grunwald
JIM MARTIN’S LONG ODDS
December 1st, 2008, 12:33 pm by Dan Lehr
From Southern Political Report:
“…how many African American voters - who in our latest survey favored Martin by over 90% - will feel compelled to go to the polls on Tuesday?
PALIN IN THE PEACH STATE
December 1st, 2008, 8:22 am by Dan Lehr
UPDATE: scroll down for a clip.
You still have time (though it’s running out) to RSVP to see her in metro Atlanta. Click here to find out details on Saxby Chambliss’ website.
Palin’s hometown newspaper is puzzled as to why she’s campaigning for Chambliss.
& Donald Craig Mitchell of the Alaskan Dispatch blog says she doesn’t seem to be ready to settle back down into the Alaska governor’s mansion anytime soon:
“My prediction is that for at least the next two years Sarah is going to keep her show on the road because that will be a lot more fun than being Governor of a backwater state that spends most of its time as far out of the limelight in which Sarah has been basking as North and South Dakota do. During the almost fifty years it has been a state Alaska has had nine governors. Other than Sarah Palin, how many people who do not live in Alaska can name one of them? And why should they be able to? Because who cares who the Governor of Alaska is?
That is the obscurity to which Sarah will return if she goes back to her day job. In addition to being no fun, for presidential candidate wannabe Palin, that also is the rub.”
UPDATE: The 1st reports are coming in, read more after the jump (I’ll post clips of her stump speech here once they’re available).
HERE SHE COMES!
November 25th, 2008, 2:55 pm by Dan Lehr
From the NewsChannel9 e-mail inbox:
ATLANTA—U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) today confirmed that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will campaign in Georgia with him on Monday, December 1st.
GEORGIA RUNOFF CAMPAIGN UPDATE
November 24th, 2008, 12:14 pm by Dan Lehr
The latest poll, from Rasmussen, has Chambliss leading 50-46, with 4% undecided.
Obama “robocalls” on behalf of Jim Martin; listen to the audio here.
“Mr. Obama has shied away from inserting himself in the still-to-be resolved Senate contests in Georgia and Minnesota. While he recorded a radio advertisement for the Democratic candidate in Georgia, advisers said he would not visit there, to avoid appearing to be too political as he works to deliver on his campaign pledge to bridge the partisan divide in Washington.” - the New York Times
Over the weekend “Freedom Watch,” a pro-Chambliss independent group, released this ad:
OBAMA ON THE AIR FOR MARTIN
November 21st, 2008, 10:15 am by Dan Lehr
The President-elect hasn’t committed to stumping in the Peach State for Jim Martin yet, but he’s just recorded a radio ad for the Senate hopeful.
What do you think? Will Obama visit Georgia? I’d say the odds are even either way.
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SAXBY WINS, CHAPTER 2
December 3rd, 2008, 11:21 am by Dan LehrMarc Ambinder:
“Habitual voters tend to vote in special elections; in Georgia, there are more Republican habitual voters than Democratic habitual voters; the minds of Republican habitual voters were no doubt focused on Chambliss’s sudden cameo as the bullwark against an overweening Democratic majority. But these habitual voters are an ideologically charged subset of the electorate. On November 4, 3.7 million Georgians voted. Yesterday, about 2.1 million Georgians did.
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