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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 22 Comments

We're just about a month away from the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare. David Hogberg has a column at Investors Business Daily on the political fallout if the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare: A Supreme Court ruling next month striking down Obama-Care would immediately shift the battle...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 12, 2012 17 Comments

Young Guns Super PAC might need to adjust its "decision matrix." Chagrined after the Young-Guns-endorsed Lugar was defeated by challenger Mourdock, and then caught up in the messy ouster of the most conservative congressman in Illinois, Don Manzullo, they are now saddled with the news that...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 10 Comments

Ballotpedia, the "interactive almanac of state politics," has an excellent run-down of Tuesday's elections across the country. While we've already reported to you on what's at stake in Wisconsin and Mourdock's challenge to Lugar, there are other key elections in Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2012 13 Comments

and imagine it's late at night on November 6, as you listen to the audio only. Who would you think won and who lost the election? Really, try it. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2012 78 Comments

but will they vote in larger numbers and against Obama this year? I'm not really in a position to assess that, so enlighten me. ...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on March 25, 2012 50 Comments

As the primary season has continued to wear on, some supporters from the not-Mitt Romney voting bloc are deciding to fold up shop and reluctantly begin shifting their support from their candidate of choice. They do this largely because they’re worried that if conservatives don’t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2012 13 Comments

A state senate race in a normally safe Democratic district in New York has Democrats worried.  (h/t reader Tom) Down to the wire in too-close-to-call Southern Brooklyn Senate race (emphasis mine): The too-close-to-call state Senate race in southern Brooklyn was down to the  wire Wednesday, with Republican David ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 23 Comments

Early on, Team Obama was bragging about raising $1 billion. When over the summer and fall fundraising did not seem to be all it should be, the confidence remained. Now, not so much.  Via The Hill: For some Obama supporters, the presidential campaign’s fundraising totals, released Monday, might have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2012 3 Comments

Bob Turner won the race for the Congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner.  (Oh, what a night.) Redistricting in NY State looks to eliminate his district, something that was anticipated even before Turner's victory. So Turner is striking back, and has just announced plans to run against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 5 Comments

From Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg (h/t @ChuckTodd): The President and the Democrats are indeed doing very well at the outset of 2012, and the Republicans are doing pitifully. They are not unrelated. Republicans in Congress and in the primary battles are driving independents into the Democrats’...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2012 23 Comments

As you know, Ben Nelson decided not to run for reelection in Nebraska.  His Cornhusker Kickback weighed too heavily on his reelection prospects. The great Democratic hope was that former Senator Bob Kerrey would run for the seat. But it is not to be, as reported at The Fix: Former...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2012 44 Comments

Conservative blogger John Hawkins (Right Wing News and elsewhere) poses the age-old conservative question: Choose to have your head cut off with a chainsaw (voting for Obama) or just a limb removed (voting for Mitt). John chooses life and limb (he's a Newt supporter). ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2012 74 Comments

We are at the mercy of misleading statistics which nonetheless form the media narrative. I posted earlier today about workers leaving the workforce in droves, which drives down the nominal unemployment rate and renders it a misleading statistic.  Yet the details are the details, and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2012 15 Comments

Okay. That's my reaction. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2012 71 Comments

Last night's debate reminded people of why Newt surged in the fall before Romney's SuperPAC and almost the entire conservative media went after him in December. This was one of the highlights (which led to Juan williams asking the ill-fated follow-up on the "food stamp president" line): Here...

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