ABC News: Politics: "Republicans, Democrats Cheer Primary Results Across 8 States in Prelude to Midterm Elections"
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Brian Bilbray wins disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in San Diego County."
CNN: Politics: "William Weld, the former Massachusetts governor, dropped out of the New York governor's race Tuesday, saying it was time to look beyond his own aspirations for the good of the party."
In other words, he just realized he couldn't win. HaH! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Boston Globe: Politics News - Wait a minute. Who or what, exactly, is the Democratic Party? That's a good question, and an important one. The answer from the Worcester convention is that a few hundred members of the Democratic State Committee, and a few thousand delegates to the convention, claim the right to be super-Democrats, able to dictate to the several hundred thousand voters who will cast Democratic ballots in September whom they may or may not nominate.
ABC News: Politics: "Voters in Eight States Go to the Polls in Contest Many See As Bellwether for Fall Election"
Now if Democrats were smart, they would register as Republicans and vote for the Republican challenger instead of the Republican incumbent, where Democrats don't have a chance of winning due to gerrymandering. And vice versa, of course. What's good for the goose, should be good for the gander, eh? The beauty of this strategy is, incumbents will suffer like never before in modern times, and we, the people, might just get politicians who fear the voters again. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain, an early front-runner in the 2008 sweepstakes, told Iowa audiences recently that he is opposed to all farm subsidies, including special deals for ethanol production.
That is not exactly what people are used to hearing from candidates, but it has not stopped the Arizona lawmaker from collecting some important early backing."
Boston Globe: Politics News - Only 14 of the [Mass.] Senate's 40 seats, and only 58 of the 160 seats in the House, are being contested this year, raising the question of where democracy has gone.
If you think of it, to "elect" means to choose. If there's no choice, how can there be an election? And if there's no true election, where's the democracy?
Good Points! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "As Elections Loom, Group of Prospective Democratic Chairmen Is Overwhelmingly Liberal-Leaning"
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Here are 10 ways to help win back Congress from Republicans.
With one exception, globalization, these talking points would work well. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "As the Senate prepares to debate a constitutional amendment, those on both sides are digging in.
ABC News: Politics: "Analysis: Democrats Eye November Landslide but Worry About Blown Opportunities"
Democrats need Rev. Al Sharpton on their strategy team but in the background. No one seizes political opportunities with a phrase better than Sharpton in my opinion. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Bush aides see Nov. vote as best way to end slide and are building a campaign strategy around tax cuts, immigration and national security."
Translated, this means higher deficits and national debt, more cheap foreign labor for business, and redirecting illegals to the end of the short fences. And they expect to win the mid-term elections on this platform? I don't think so! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "GOP Pins Hopes on Black Candidates Like Michael Steele in Maryland, Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania"
Reuters: Top News: "NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Ray Nagin narrowly won a second term as mayor of New Orleans on Saturday with support from both black and white voters and immediately began mending fences with the federal and state governments to hasten the devastated city's recovery.
For all his irrational and over the top responses to Katrina, it appears the voters forgave his "losing it" temporarily. Recognizing the faults at the state and federal level were beyond his control, the majority of voters are willing to give him another chance, rather than suffer a new comer taking advantage of Katrina for personal gain. Nagin inherited Katrina on his watch, now it is up to Nagin to make good on rebuilding, if the state and feds will work toward the same ends. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Connecticut Democrats Endorse Sen. Lieberman, but Anti-War Challenger Forces Primary"
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Once-safe districts are turning into potential problems for Republicans as elections approach."
ABC News: Politics: "Convention in Connecticut Shows Tensions Among Democrats on Major Issues"
Democrats have issues? I'm shocked ! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Pa. Voters Deny at Least 14 Incumbents Who Voted Themselves a Pay Raise a Chance for Re-Election"
Outstanding. May this anti-incumbent movement SWEEP across America putting the voters back in control of government and politicians. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "... two independents - Carole "One Tough Grandma" Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky "How hard can it be?" Friedman - officially entered the race last week against Democrat Chris Bell and incumbent Republican Rick Perry.
Word is they easily acquired 3 to 4 times as many signatures as necessary to get on the ballot. Could this be the year of the Independent in Texas? I hope! Strayhorn gets my vote. Kinky is just a bit too, well, you know, Kinky for my political tastes. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "First Lady Warns Republicans Against Using Amendment Against Gay Marriage As Campaign Tool"
Sound political advice I would say. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Boston Globe: Politics News: - Political outsiders in the state for more than a decade, Democrats needed clear victories in two open districts, a critical element of the party's hope that wins in scandal-tainted Ohio will help erode or overcome the GOP advantage in Washington. Democrats need to capture 15 seats to regain the majority in the House.
ABC News: Politics: "New Orleans Mayoral Contest Proves Unusually Well-Mannered"
Southern grace was apparently not washed out to sea by Katrina. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Rejecting appeals from Gov. Jeb Bush and other top Republicans, House Speaker Allan Bense said Wednesday he will not challenge U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris for the party's nomination for U.S. Senate...."
This pretty much gurantees Katherine Harris' defeat in November. Amen! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Targeting Democratic constituency, the GOP fields black candidates in three high-profile races."
Too little, too late. Blacks are joining the Minute Men manning our borders against illegal immigrants to protect American jobs - a situation the White House has had 5 years to address and done nothing about. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A 37-year-old former city councilman triumphed in his bid to be Newark's first new mayor in two decades, a win that marks a shift in black leadership for a city trying to turn around decades of urban decay...."
ABC News: Politics: "Rep. Clay Shaw Tries to Shrug Off Dissatisfaction With Bush, GOP to Win 14th Term"
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Expecting to seize control of the House in November, party leaders are planning legislative blitz, new probes of Bush administration."
Talk about putting your cart before the horse. They ought to working every waking moment to insure the best possible candidates exist in every contested race in the country, especially where there is a Republican incumbent. Then they ought to be hammering out a unified positive agenda that will have broad appeal to liberals and moderate conservatives. That would be putting the horse out in front of the cart. Stupid DNC! Its tweedle Dee and tweedle Dumb to me which ever way it goes. My goal is to unseat as many incumbents from both parties as possible by working with Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "State lawmakers approved a plan early Friday to let voters decide whether to spend a record $37 billion on roads, schools and ...
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ABC News: Politics: "Landscape Shifting in Ala. Governor's Race for Republican and Democratic Candidates"
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Republicans, worried about midterm elections and voter ire, hold bad field position.
WIth Iraq as backdrop, DUH, do you think? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The California Democratic Party endorsed state Treasurer Phil Angelides late Saturday as their candidate for governor in the hotly contested primary election to determine who will challenge Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...."
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "With growing public concern over Iraq, pain at the pumps could only add to Republican woes in Nov."
And the fine volunteers at Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy are working hard to make sure this prediction comes true for Republican and Democratic incumbents. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Loss of GOP Control of House or Senate Could Mean Nightmare for Bush, Allies"
That's an understatement! I fear it might push Bush over the edge. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, beginning a monthlong run-off campaign for New Orleans mayor, will be fighting over the white conservative voters who favored other candidates in the primary."
We are talking about the deep South, after all. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "NEW ORLEANS - Contrary to speculation that incumbents could be thrown out wholesale after Hurricane Katrina, voters on Saturday held steady for many of the leaders they had before the disaster."
Let's hope this is an anomaly and not a harbinger of what is to come on Nov. 7 of this year. For if it is, we are all very big trouble. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu Advance to Runoff in New Orleans"
ABC News: Politics: "New Orleans Voters Consider Mayoral Candidates, Casting Ballots for First Time Since Katrina"
I watched part of their debates. I wasn't impressed by any of them. Especially disappointing was Nagin who failed time and again to either understand or address the questions posed. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republicans are in trouble in Ohio, where President Bush's ratings are low and support for scandal-scarred Gov. Bob Taft even lower. That is why Democrats sound uncommonly optimistic as they look to the fall elections in the state that crushed their hopes for the White House in 2004 and has sent only Republicans to statewide political office for more than a decade."
ABC News: Politics: "New Orleans Election Officials Try to Pull Off the Most Difficult Election in Modern Times"
As elections go, this one is a real nightmare. The logistics themselves are nearly impossible. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
InstaPundit.Com: " BAD NEWS FOR THE G.O.P.: Republican voters are coming to appreciate the virtues of divided government.
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ABC News: Politics: "Newt Gingrich Worries About GOP Chances in November, Saying Americans Seem to Want Change"
He was certainly right the last time he saw America ripe for change in power. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Voter turnout at mid-term elections in Nov. could give Democrats an advantage over Republicans."
Unless it turns into a true anti-incumbent sweep, in which Democrats and Republicans lose their bids to hold on to their roles of incompetence. Would be quite a wake up call for the rest of the politicians wouldn't it, if incumbents began dropping like flies on both sides of the aisle. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Evacuees could tip the balance of the mayoral election if enough trek to polls and cast absentee ballots.
In other words, will the anti-incumbents make their voices heard on the ballots? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "New Orleans Voters Increasingly Divided by Neighborhood, Race as 1st Post-Katrina Election Nears"
ABC News: Politics: "Social Issues Like Flag Burning, Gay Marriage and Abortion Top Senate GOP's Pre-Election Agenda"
Divide and conquer, that is there strategy. Such a shame they won't seek the issues that would unite us and make us stronger. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "Republican senator faces challenging path to election victory in strongly Democratic state."
AP Politics: "SAN DIEGO - Lobbyist and former GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray will face Democrat Francine Busby in a June runoff to fill the House seat left vacant by jailed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham."
AP Politics: "HARRISBURG, Pa. - Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell and his likely GOP challenger, former football star Lynn Swann, got an independent challenger on Thursday for November's gubernatorial election."
Finally a real choice at the polls, instead of the regular tweedle deficient and tweedle dumb. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "WASHINGTON - Robert Hirsch wonders where all the statesmen have gone. Ed Laliberte wishes politicians would stop bickering and start fixing the nation's ills. Diane Heller says everybody in Washington is corrupt or out of touch."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Energized by GOP scandals, they grow more confident of winning control of Congress.
Not because they are inherently better politicians, however. Only because of a growing anti-incumbent sentiment amongst voters. If Democrats want to earn voter's confidence, they must still propose to solve more or our nation's problems than they create, which is their legacy. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's small but politically important Conservative Party will pre-empt the Republican Party by holding its state convention to choose nominees for governor and U.S. Senate before the GOP meets, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long said Tuesday."
ABC News: Politics: "With an Eye on the 2008 Presidential Race, Sen. Allen Launches Va. Re-Election Bid"
ABC News: Politics: "McCain Campaigns for Ohio Congressman on the Opposite Side of Immigration Debate"
Supporting or opposing candidates on a single issue is politically juvenile. Damn hard to find another candidate who agrees 100% with you on all the issues. This is a non-story. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "18 Candidates Led by Republican Contenders Face Off in Calif. Election to Fill House Seat"
ABC News: Politics: "Katrina Evacuees Begin Early Voting in New Orleans Election Around Louisiana"
ABC News: Politics: "Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Won't Seek Re-Election to Congress, Officials Say"
Damn, what a time to be too old to dance a jig. The anti-incumbent mood in Texas is growing, and now it shows. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Republicans Increasingly Uneasy About Bush's Slumping Poll Numbers, Unpopular Iraq Policies"
Like I just said in the previous story. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Katherine Harris' Senate Campaign Loses Core Staff; Congresswoman to Introduce New Members"
Could it be she is just a bitch to work for? Will she work for the people, or demand they work for her salary and perks from their taxes? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
