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CAROLINE KENNEDY & SARAH PALIN

December 16th, 2008, 9:28 am by Dan Lehr

Ms. Kennedy says she wants Hillary Clinton’s seat.

Read the latest here.

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

Happy Birthday, loser!

Boy, what a creep this guy is, huh?

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CAROLINE? NO.

December 9th, 2008, 9:04 am by Dan Lehr

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Caroline Kennedy reportedly wants to fill Hillary Clinton’s shoes in the New York Senate seat.

There are two schools of thought on this.

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CORKER QUESTIONS CARMAKERS, AGAIN

December 4th, 2008, 5:20 pm by Dan Lehr
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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:

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THE SENATE’S NEW SWINGERS

December 4th, 2008, 11:15 am by Dan Lehr

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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:

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SAXBY WINS, CHAPTER 2

December 3rd, 2008, 11:21 am by Dan Lehr

Marc 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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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):

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SAXBY WINS

December 3rd, 2008, 8:31 am by Dan Lehr

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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.

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IT’S THE NIGHT THAT THE LIGHTS WILL GO OUT FOR SOMEONE

December 2nd, 2008, 8:34 am by Dan Lehr

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Today’s runoff day.

Polls in Georgia are open until 7.

What’s at stake?

Some good analysis from Time Magazine’s Michael Grunwald

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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?

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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).

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MY INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR BOB CORKER

November 26th, 2008, 9:54 am by Dan Lehr

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Last night the Tennessee junior Senator was at NewsChannel9 doing a satellite interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel. After that interview was done, he remarked at how Cavuto repeatedly interrupted him (darn media), so I promised to let him finish all answers to my questions.

Among other things, Corker talked of:

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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.

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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:

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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.

Listen to it here.

What do you think? Will Obama visit Georgia? I’d say the odds are even either way.

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