More midterms: Unpredictable Alaska

ALASKA: “A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she fully intends to caucus with Republicans if she wins re-election as a write-in candidate,” AP reports.

Alaska remains completely unpredictable: “A final Hays Research poll in Alaska, conducted for the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, shows Joe Miller (R) leading the U.S. Senate race with 27%, followed by Scott McAdams (D) at 26% and "another candidate you have to write in" at 25%,” Political Wire writes.

COLORADO: Sarah Palin recorded a robo-call for Tom Tancredo, who’s running for governor on the American Constitution Party line.

This goes in the category of Duh. Michael Bennet apparently called into the wrong radio station, and wound up on a conservative radio show.

MASSACHUSETTS: “Staggered by the uprising that sent Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate in January, Massachusetts Democrats are unleashing a massive, aggressive, and potentially risky effort to get voters to the polls today,” the Boston Globe writes. “Democrats are targeting not only their urban strongholds, such as Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Springfield, but also areas of great Republican strength along the South Shore and on Cape Cod, the battleground for the open 10th Congressional District seat. Moreover, Democratic candidates are pooling their lists of supporters for a unified get-out-the-vote push, which means that they could be sending a voter to the polls who supports a local Democrat for a legislative office but opposes the party’s standard-bearer.”


NEVADA: The AP: “Last-minute and, at times, desperate get-out-the-vote drives picked up speed in the state and across the country, with some key races, like Reid-Angle, so close that they could be decided by just a couple of votes per precinct.”

NEW YORK: “On the final, frenzied day of the campaigning, Carl Paladino tried to connect with voters through an emotional online video. Paladino says his long-held desire to help people morphed into an unlikely run for governor after the death of his son, Patrick, in a car accident last year,” The New York Daily News writes.

PENNSYLVANIA: “Philadelphia's four suburban counties, home to one in five Pennsylvania voters, are the focus of much attention from U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, a Democrat, and former Congressman Pat Toomey, a Republican, in the final days of the campaign," AP writes. Registration among the 1.7 million voters in the four ‘collar’ counties -- Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery -- is nearly balanced between Democrats and Republicans.”

TEXAS: Get ready for a whole lot more Rick Perry. The Republican is likely to win his reelection bid for governor today, and after that, he’s expected to embark on a national book tour. Once North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, running for the Senate, steps down as governor, Perry will be the longest-serving active governor in the country.

WISCONSIN: “With their campaigns winding down ahead of Election Day, Wisconsin's two U.S. Senate candidates are replacing their attacks against each other with positive ads about themselves,” the AP writes. “The race between Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold and Republican challenger Ron Johnson never turned as nasty as some campaigns in other states did. Still, both candidates have run negative ads that sometimes blurred the lines between accuracy and embellishment.”

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ITS LIKE BEING IN THE WILDERNESS AFTER GETTING OUT OF EGYPT, THINGS ARE STILL HARD BUT NO REASON TO GO BACK THERE!!!

Remember America, these are the same old folks that turned a surplus into deficits, and ran the House in all sorts of ways as the economy took a masked downward trend:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a64ZIkmVPv_w

In 1995, Boehner handed out campaign checks from the tobacco industry to members on the House floor at a time when lawmakers were considering eliminating a tobacco subsidy.

The top donor to Boehner's leadership PAC in 2003-2004 was SLM Corp., the Reston, Virginia-based student-loan company better known as Sallie Mae. SLM contributed $65,170 to Boehner's Freedom Project, more than twice as much as the second-biggest donor, New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The money came as the House Education and Workforce Committee, which Boehner chairs, prepared to write new legislation governing student loans.

DeLay's Jan. 7 decision to permanently relinquish his leadership post came after former aides were mentioned in a plea-bargain agreement with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. House Republicans, who will hold a new vote the week of Jan. 30, have pledged to address ethics issues, including a possible overhaul of lobbying rules.

Blunt, who was tapped by then-House Republican Whip DeLay in 1999 to be his chief deputy, has been acting majority leader since Texan DeLay stepped down after being indicted in September on unrelated money-laundering charges in Austin.

Both men's political action committees employ Jim Ellis, who was indicted along with DeLay. DeLay's PAC gave Blunt's committee a $150,000 donation in 2000, and Blunt's PAC gave $10,000 to DeLay's non-profit foundation that same year. Both lawmakers' PACs have employed Alexander Strategy Group, a Georgetown-based firm whose partners include former Abramoff and DeLay associates.

HOW QUICKLY MANY FORGET. IS THIS WHAT WE WANT NOW? BECAUSE SOME COURAGEOUS FOLKS DID WHAT THEY BELIEVED WAS BEST RATHER THAN FOLLOW POLLS? AND THEY DID NOT GET MIRACULOUS RESULTS IN TWO YEARS? DID WE NOT ALWAYS CLAMOR FOR REPRESENTATIVES THAT DID WHAT THEY BELIEVED WAS BEST NOT WHAT WAS BEST FOR THEMSELVES. CLEARLY THE DEM ADMIN DID NOT VOTE SOLELY WITH PRESERVING THEIR JOBS IN MIND.

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Reply#1 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:35 AM EDT

Bro (or broette), I don't know how detached you are from the slew of voters heading to the polls this morning, but the general consensus among them is that representatives should represent...NOT vote their oppinion. That's what's happening here. People are tired of not being heard.

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#1.1 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 11:12 AM EDT
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Who are the Liberals going to blame this tidal wave on?? They lived in their bubble for 4 years, 2 with bush and 2 with Obama- Their congress has been in power for 4 years and all they really succeeded in doing was to pi-- off the American people. Look in the mirror LIberals-on both sides of the Asle--Yes there are Liberal Republicans too. One example is Charlie from Florida--What a two headed snake he is........Need I say more??

    Reply#2 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:51 AM EDT

    What tidal wave??

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    #2.1 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 10:40 AM EDT

    SallySays; All they managed to do was was p!ss off the American people, huh? Well that and pass credit card reform, student loan reform, financial reform, 22 tax cuts, equal wage law, SCHIPS, and land preservation reform. Oh yeah, they passed health care reform that every president since LBJ has been after AND they turned around the biggest economic mess in 90 years, brought to you by GOP conservative Business loving lapdogs. No Sally, you need not say more. Your lack of memory, judgement and morality say volumes.

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    #2.2 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 10:59 AM EDT

    as a liberal i really hope that Lisa Murkowski wins up there today.maybe people will see sarah as what she is, a NUT!!!!!!

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    #2.3 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 11:30 AM EDT

    Don't give up on McAdams yet. The Tea Party vote split has achieved far stranger things already.

      #2.4 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 11:34 AM EDT
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      Alaska?

      I thought God had that one already 'planned'??

        Reply#3 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:52 AM EDT

        Political comedy writers probably get their material here. LOL!!!

          Reply#4 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 10:47 AM EDT

          Looks like in Alaska "undecided" comes in a close 4th with 22% of the vote.

            Reply#5 - Tue Nov 2, 2010 6:39 PM EDT
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