by Matt Stoller, Tue May 23, 2006 at 03:32:44 PM EDT
Jennifer Nix has an important post on book publishing and How Would a Patriot Act?
The new SUSA rankings are out, with a lot of weird numbers.
Hillary Clinton crashes among independents.
Jon Kyl crashes among moderates.
Joementum stays in place.
And Rick Santorum gets even worse. People in Pennsylvania just hate that guy.
Fun stuff. What are you reading?
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What do people think about Feingold's little drop? Is this to be expected with the Presidential candidacy talk?
james wolcott's blog, after progressively shrinking (i kid you not!) over the last 24 hours, has completely vanished.
and i can no longer access raw story.
I am happy to see Landrieu soar in the recent Survey USA poll. She is now in the top fifty.
Landrieu's tacking looks like quite the rollercoaster: http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrac k.aspx?g=90823025-0484-4c4f-945b-f4f257e b642b
okay. I'll admit to being an idiot. Feel free to say that to me, but maybe answer this question: With a 59% approval rating, how can Ned Lamont win the primary? Are the approval ratings from only Dems much lower? I really want to see Joe gone, but what are the numbers behind Nedrenalin? Or at least the projected numbers...
Because Joe is a Republican running in a Democratic primary.
And because it will be a low-turnout August election where only the most motivated voters will come out to the polls.
the only Republicans in the top 10 are the Maine women, and the only Democrats in the bottom 10 are Mark Dayton and Frank Lautenberg.
I know why Dayton is hated and I understand New Jersey hates all politicians, but why the consistant hate on Lautenberg? Why him specifically? Anyone?
Lautenberg was the Democratic Party standin for the unsavory Torricelli, who quite likely would have gone down to defeat in his reelection bid. The NJ Republicans consider the Senate seat Lautenberg holds to be "their" seat, stolen by the Democratic Party subtrefuge of forcing a suspect member of their own party to abandon his reelection bid and allow a cleaner candidate to compete for the seat. Their rage at losing the seat keeps Lautenberg's numbers low.
Notice the difference between the two parties on how they handled purported corruption with one of their own. The Democrats pressed Torricelli to retire from the race. The Republicans allow their suspect candidates to run with full party support.
All Republicans can do this November is run negative campaigns. They have nothing to show for their six years holding all the reins of power except a multi-trillion dollar deficit they've rung up and an albatross of a foreign policy disaster in the Middle East hung around the nation's neck. They'll be running another negative campaign in this year's US Senatorial race too, with a candidate whom NJ voters confuse with his father, a former NJ governor who left under a cloud. Republicans sure do love their dynasties.
If Hillary Clinton's support among independents is ragged, her support among conservatives is imaginary, and her support in the progressive wing of her own party is non-existent, please tell me how she gets elected President. Her going down to a crushing defeat in 2008 will not do the women's movement any favors, any more than the way she botched the handling of the Clinton health care program and cost her husband and her party their majority in the 2004 mid-term elections. Her baggage train extends from New York to California and no locomotive big enough exists to move it fast enough to save her.
Her healthcare proposal being the cause of the drubbing in 1994 is insurance company-inspired propaganda. That's what the GOP and big business want you to think. Cletus in the rural South did not start voting Republicans because Hillary and the Democrats wanted to give him health insurance.
The Dems lost in 1994 because of gun control. Passing that assault weapons ban in September of an election year was perhaps the most politically tone-deaf thing I have ever witnessed the Democratic Party do.
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