Critz was Murtha's district director, which I believe means he wasn't based in DC at all, but certainly can be still be tied to Murtha's own personal ethics issues.

This is now the fourth straight race Hafer has quit.  In 2005-06, she in turn announced for and dropped out of PA-SEN, PA-18 and PA-Lt-Gov.

The other thing worth noting is that this district will likely disappear in redistricting.  We're losing one seat, so why not axe the messed-up-shape district with a diminishing population and the newest incumbent?

(Granted, I haven't been here in quite some time.  Saw Jane's link, however.)

Hafer wasn't pushed out of the race by the DCCC.  She failed to gather enough valid petition signatures to be placed on the primary ballot.

Critz may well be a lousy candidate, but it's Hafer's own fault that she won't be able to challenge him.

Jerome, it's your site.  If you want to bar folks from posting under aliases, go ahead.

But you excuse too much: it wasn't just that Biden took lines from Kinnock speeches -- he claimed Kinnock's life story as his own.  It was bad.

Since when is being born into wealth "hard work"?

Why would Biden answer that question truthfully?

Exactly.  You can't run as inevitable and not fight everywhere.

Read that statement again that they sent you:

"The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.

My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006.

When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.

This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it."

Well, there's one last data point we'd want, though it might not distort results much: amount of money raised for Senate candidates via fundraising events at which the incumbent appeared.

Yeah, this is a good target list.  Senator Bayh?

To the extent that exciting the Republican base is still a concern for McCain -- and it is -- nominally pro-choice Tom Ridge can't be the VP nominee.  He needs to give those folks some red meat.

Where are we on the "use it or lose it" front?  Are safe incumbents chipping in appropriately?

Since when is "leadership" defined as "agreeing with the Republicans"?

It seems to be functioning pretty well, what with the down-rating in addition to the uprating.  My Iran question's doing well, and I'm excited to be coming to Austin.

What, should he not campaign in Alaska because it'll cost them money?  Maybe he should just spend September in MD, DC and VA.

Indeed.  There is no legitimate reason to have No Quarter on anyone's blogroll.