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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 46 Comments

It was a blow out, more than anyone expected.  At latest count it looks like a 20 point win. Mourdocks victory speech was great.  I'll post it when it is available.  (Now available at Right Scoop but no embed) For now, you'll have to do with a photo: Elsewhere: Looks like Tom...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 49 Comments

Opening new post for post-results -- problems with embedded tweet codes here. % Reporting - 95 Mourdock - 60 Lugar - 40 Sen. John Kerry: Sen. Lugar's defeat is a "tragedy for the Senate" #INSEN— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) May 9, 2012 Obama: As a friend and former colleague, I want to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 6 Comments

From Peter Suderman at Reason, Obama Administration Security Official: We Don't Need to Subpoena Reporters Anymore Because We Already Know Who They're Talking To: Wasserman's blistering indictment of the Obama administration's hyper-aggressive pursuit of government whistleblowers, first delivered at April's Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism, is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 102 Comments

Throughout her career and political campaign, Elizabeth Warren has found victims everywhere she looked, including when she looked in the mirror and saw an alleged descendant of one of the most historically victimized groups, Native Americans. In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 43 Comments

I have warned you about the total war, in which petitions and boycotts and other pressure tactics are used to silence conservative voices. There is no better example than a case reported in the NY Post via National Review (h/t Jonah Goldberg) about a blogger at The...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 20 Comments

Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney via an overnight e-mail sent to supporters.  Here's the link to the e-mail (h/t Politico). Is there an endorsement in there someplace? Yeah, I guess there is, but it's buried in paragraph 13 and half-hearted: Above all else, we both agree that President...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 10 Comments

"It's time" has been Richard Mourdock's campaign theme.  "It's time" captured beautifully why it's time to retire Dick Lugar:  Too long in office, too long in Washington, D.C., too long considering himself to be the office he holds, too willing to go along to get along,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 2 Comments

to unwrite a historical wrong through patriotic dissent. From Jeff in Green Bay, a photo of the bumper sticker on his car: ...

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 Bryan Jacoutot on May 07, 2012 23 Comments

Following Francois Hollande’s handling of Nicolas Sarkozy in last week’s Presidential election, a number of pressing uncertainties are making their way into the minds of people around the world. The issue attracting the most global media attention is the significance of France electing it’s first...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 12 Comments

While the Democrats battle extremes within their party in tomorrow's recall primary in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker faces his own challenge in the Republican primary. Arthur Kohl-Riggs, a 23-year-old self-described "progressive Republican" who dresses like Abraham Lincoln and frequently appears at rallies around the state, is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2012 12 Comments

As you know, since some of you sought a coup d'insurrection, I was traveling all weekend and this morning without access to a computer.  Fortunately, Anne guarded the wall all weekend (thanks!) and the State of the Insurrection is sound. Being computerless, but not internetless, brought...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2012 17 Comments

Dick Lugar has jumped the shark with this ad he just released, via The Weekly Standard: With this ad, Dick Lugar deserves to be remembered as a dishonorable politician who would stoop to anything to get reelected. I hope Indiana voters tell him not to let the door hit...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 9 Comments

This Tuesday, democrats in Wisconsin will cast their votes to determine who will be the democratic challenger to Republican Governor Scott Walker in the upcoming June recall election. The democratic candidates, Kathleen Falk and Tom Barrett, display two ends of the Democratic party. Falk, the far-left...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 3 Comments

In case you missed the weekend I locked out the Professor from his own blog, here are some highlights: Yet another Obama campaign hashtag attempt: #Readytogo No longer feeling sorry for Dick Lugar Heartland Institute unveils marketing campaign on global warming Berkshire Hathway's Munger: civilized people don't buy gold France...

Posted by Anne Segal on May 07, 2012 31 Comments

A graphic entitled "The Illusion of Choice" has been circulating among those keen to expose the interconnectedness of many of the brands available to consumers: "Interconnectedness" might be a nice way of putting it, for some. That's because this graphic plays into the misplaced alarm that has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2012 3 Comments

We have seen this phenomenon before in Obamaville. From Linda in Tennessee, who writes: Obamanomics =hard times. Note the "hardware store" "12" pasted over the '08. ...

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