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Posted at 12:54am on Jun. 25, 2008 Veepstakes: A Look at the Candidates (Week 1)
By StevenK
Tim Pawlenty:
By most accounts, Governor Pawlenty is the current frontrunner for the position. It doesn't take a Karl Rove wannabe to figure out why. It's often said that the Vice President can at best add two percent of the vote to a ticket. In Pawlenty's case, if he's able to swing his home state at least 3.48 percent and more importantly its neighbor, Wisconsin, by just .38 percent, then McCain can pick up a total of 20 electoral votes. In terms of electoral votes, no other politician in the U.S. offers McCain greater potential than Tim Pawlenty. Additionally, putting a popular Minnesota Republican on the national ticket could bring out voters for Senator Norm Coleman in what should be a tough re-election against Al Franken.
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Posted at 5:17pm on May 31, 2008 I hope McCain selects Carly Fiorina to be his Running Mate
By StevenK
Essentially, she's already been his running mate for the past few months as she and John co-host town hall meetings across the country and through Fiorina's many surrogate appearances on behalf of the campaign. I don't think there is a single other politician who has stumped more for McCain than Fiorina.
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Posted at 10:56pm on Jan. 31, 2008 The AP begins its turn on John McCain
By StevenK
McCain changes story on tax stance
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush's tax cuts because they didn't come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time.
In a presidential debate on Wednesday, McCain said he voted against the Bush tax cuts because he wanted to rein in spending.
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Posted at 2:44pm on Jan. 31, 2008 What could have been...
By StevenK
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Posted at 1:41am on Jan. 29, 2008 A Plea for a Brokered Convention
By StevenK
For those of you who are less familiar with the plot of the television show, "West Wing," the above picture is a screenshot of a scene from the Epsiode entitled, 2162 Votes, where the Democartic Party is in the midst of a brokered convention. The party is at that point split between three candidates. In first, in regards to delegate count, is Vice President Bob Russell, trailing behind are Congressman Matthew Santos and Former Vice President John Hoynes.
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Posted at 7:27pm on Jan. 18, 2008 Why I fear President McCain
By StevenK
Because he uses class warfare rhetoric - sometimes directly following denials that he does.
1. “I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …
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Posted at 6:56am on Dec. 9, 2007 Mark Warner Advertising on Redstate??? Awesome!
By StevenK
Maybe you've seen the Mark Warner for Senate campaign advertisment on Redstate. My immediate reaction was, of course, that I couldn't believe Warner would advertise on RS, but then I realized it was Google Ads, and that he probably never intended the waste of advertising.
Then I realized... by clicking this ad - I just spent a bit of Warner's cash... and now that it's on Redstate, I can easily, efficiently, and conveniently leach off the Warner campaign. And you can too!
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Posted at 7:51pm on Dec. 8, 2007 Myers vs. Ocean County; Lance vs. Whitman (NJ - 03; 07)
By StevenK
NJ - 03
Norcross and Fenton out; Burlington County Unites Behind Myers...
The field of potential Burlington County candidates to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton cleared up today, with Republican National Committeeman David Norcross and Freeholder Aubrey Fenton both removing their names from consideration and throwing their support behind the county’s presumptive favorite candidate, Lockheed Martin Vice President Chris Myers.
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Posted at 3:27am on Dec. 5, 2007 Whitman Clone, Political Neo-Phyte, (Soon-to-be-Unpopular) Rich old Woman Announces un-winnable campaign for Senate (NJ - SEN)
By StevenK
Businesswoman Anne Evans Estabrook formally announced her run today for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, billing herself as a candidate who can deal with the state’s affordability crisis.
“With New Jersey facing a true affordability crisis and with politicians putting partisanship above problem-solving, there could be no more urgent time for someone like myself with an outside perspective and a lifetime of experience building consensus to roll up my sleeves to help fix that badly broken business called the federal government,” said Estabrook, who owns and operates an industrial real estate company.
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Posted at 4:24am on Nov. 30, 2007 "Frontrunner" to succeed Saxton drops bid; Conservatives rejoice (NJ-03)
By StevenK
State Senator Diane Allen takes herself out of consideration for Saxton's congressional seat.
State Sen. Diane Allen says she will not be a candidate for Jim Saxton’s open House seat next year.
“Now is not the time in my life that I feel prepared to again fight a Democrat opponent as well as a rogue faction of the Burlington County Republican Party simultaneously,” Allen said .
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Posted at 12:51am on Nov. 28, 2007 Retiring Saxton possibly close to an endorsement; Major GOP Leaders gearing for War (NJ - 03)
By StevenK
Defense contractor Christopher Myers, a Medford resident who is the Vice President of Lockheed Martin, is considering a bid for the Republican nomination for Congress in the third district and could win the endorsement of retiring Rep. Jim Saxton, according to GOP sources. Myers runs Lockheed Martin's sea-based missile-defense programs.
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Posted at 4:22am on Nov. 27, 2007 State Senator Leonard Lance close to announcing bid for Ferguson's seat (NJ - 07)
By StevenK
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance is sounding more and more like a Congressional candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Mike Ferguson, who announced last week that he will not seek another term.
"I’m very heavily leaning in the direction of running” said Lance, who’s been making phone calls to shore up support. “I’m very encouraged by the conversations I’ve had across the district, and that’s in all four counties. And obviously there will be unity, complete support here in Hunterdon County”
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Posted at 4:55pm on Nov. 26, 2007 Kyl announces he will run for GOP Minority Whip; Alexander "mulls" decision to run
By StevenK
With current Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., announcing Nov. 26 he will resign his elected office by the end of the year, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl will run to replace him as the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, a Kyl spokesman told the Associated Press.
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Posted at 2:14pm on Nov. 21, 2007 Bob Novak has no idea what he's talking about (NJ - 07)
By StevenK
This week's Evans-Novak Political Report featured Congressman Mike Ferguson's retirement from the House of Represenatives and the subsequent political implications, however, in a completely inaccurate way.
House 2008
New Jersey-7: In a surprise, Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-N.J.) announced he would not seek a fifth term. This creates a second GOP vacancy in New Jersey, after the retirement announcement last week of Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.). When you add in Rep. Frank LoBiondo 's (R-N.J.) difficult re-election battle next year, suddenly, the GOP is in danger of losing half of its six congressmen from New Jersey.
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Posted at 9:05am on Nov. 11, 2007 On Fairbridge and RedHot
By StevenK
Global Warming, by Jove
Robert A. HahnDon't laugh, this is serious.
The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.
The guy who says this is not some ditz. Nor is it Jerome Armstrong. But I repeat myself.
Anyway, according to Canada's Financial Post, this is
"Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume. This one man authored or co-authored 100 scientific books and more than 1,000 scientific papers, he edited the Benchmarks in Geology series (more than 90 volumes in print) and was general editor of the Encyclopaedias of the Earth Sciences. He edited eight major encyclopedias of specialized scientific papers in the atmospheric sciences and astrogeology; geomorphology; geochemistry and the earth sciences; geology, sedimentology, paleontology, oceanography and, not least, climatology."
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