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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 29, 2010 4 Comments
A new poll released in my home district (RI-01) confirms what I have been telling you for weeks, this race is winnable for Republican John Loughlin.  As reported by The Providence Journal: For much of the campaign season, Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline has raised...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2010 0 Comments
Democrats across the country have been engaged in various deceptive actions to siphon votes from conservative Republican candidates. In New Jersey, a Democratic candidate helped a phony Tea Party candidate get on the ballot, and the Democratic Party has a nationwide “divide and conquer” strategy of lending...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 28, 2010 10 Comments
Todd Young is on my Top 10 List, running against incumbent Baron Hill in Indiana-09 district. Hill embodies the arrogance which has characterized Democratic Party control of Congress for the past several years: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmgQ2W3lhM?fs=1] New polling shows that the race is a toss-up.  Via The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 5 Comments
The Providence Journal, the only statewide daily newspaper in Rhode Island which dominates news coverage, has endorsed Democrat David Cicilline for Congress in the RI-01 District, running against John Loughlin.  As my readers know, this is my home district and I support Loughlin. Unfortunately, the PolitiFact...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 1 Comment
Add the race in NY-24 to the list of my Top 10 races (also RI-01 and NY-22) which are tightening in the final two weeks. From CQ Politics, Richard Hanna has pulled within 5 points of Democrat incumbent Michael Arcuri, down from 8 points just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 0 Comments
The fiasco of Obama’s visit to Rhode Island — which led Frank Caprio, the Democratic candidate for Governor, to tell Obama to “shove” his endorsement — holds tremendous potential to split the Democratic base. Obama came to Rhode Island to raise funds for the national...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2010 12 Comments
The left-blogosphere and punditry have been hoping for right-wing political violence for two years now with no success.  From Bill Sparkman to countless others, these people have been waiting for the fire to justify all the smoke they have been blowing about “extremist” and “crazy”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2010 18 Comments
Prior to the Kentucky Senate debate in Paducah last night, a woman with a history of politically-inspired vandalism who was dressed in disguise approached Rand Paul to present him with a Move-On.org “award,” and was pulled to the ground by Paul supporters, one of whom needlessly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2010 12 Comments
Via a link at HotAir, comes another over-the-top mainstream media fluff piece about the Coffee Party, making it out to be more than it is, this time by Agence France-Presse, Coffee Party seeks to outbrew Tea Party in US politics. In case you haven’t noticed,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 26, 2010 5 Comments
On Election Day we will have an all day and all night (at least until Ma’am sings) Live Event similar to what we had on January 19, 2010, when over 21,000 people (not visits, people) participated in our live feed (using Cover-It-Live) to watch the election...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2010 4 Comments
Via WPRI in Rhode Island.  The rest is just a formality: ——————————————–Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 25, 2010 2 Comments
Barack Obama, Scott Brown and Michael Steele all will be in Rhode Island today, campaigning for competing candidates in the RI-01 District (my home district, by the way). Obama is flying in for an elaborately catered $7500 per plate fundraiser (menu here) for Providence Mayor David...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2010 8 Comments
On October 20, I published my Top 10 List for donations (not necessarily the 10 most important races), based on the following criteria:  Must be current Democratic seat; must be toss-up or possibility of an upset of a big name Democrat; and must not be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2010 11 Comments
Via DaTechGuy, who stopped by my house in Ithaca with The Other McCain on their way from northern New York covering the Ann Marie Buerkle race to Pennsylvania.  They ate all my pizza, drank all my beer, then left to find their next victim: ——————————————– Related Posts: Me...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 22, 2010 2 Comments
Update 10-24-2010:  Two updates so important I’m putting them at the top of this post.  Take a look at Miracle in RI-1? by David Freddoso at The Washington Examiner and John Loughlin Will Win the Kennedy People’s Seat in RI-1 by Jack Fowler at NRO. —————————————————- John...
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