A new USA Today/Suffolk poll in Virginia shows Terry McAuliffe (D) and Glenn Youngkin (R) tied in the race for governor, 45% to 45%.
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Dysfunction in Texas Attorney General’s Office
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) staff this month “quietly dropped a series of human trafficking and child sexual assault cases after losing track of one of the victims, a…
U.S. Hits Russia with New Sanctions
“The U.S. on Friday sanctioned more than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including its Central Bank governor and families of Security Council members, after President…
Senators Want to Rename Volcano After Don Young
Alaska’s U.S. senators want to rename an active volcano in the Aleutian Islands after the late Rep. Don Young (R-AK), the Anchorage Daily News reports. Save to Favorites
Candidate Quality Still Matters
Philip Bump: “What’s apparent at this point, just over a month before voting ends in the 2022 midterm election, is that nearly any national outcome is possible.” “This big-picture perspective,…
5 Reasons For Democrats To Still Be Concerned
Nate Silver: “Overall, Democrats’ chances of winning the Senate are 68-in-100, according to the Deluxe version of our forecast. That’s down from a high of 71-in-100, which persisted from Sept….
Another Absurd Debt Ceiling Fight?
Jonathan Bernstein: “People are already talking about the possibility of a government default next year if Republicans win a House majority in November. According to Axios, one of the Republicans…
What if We’re Already Fighting World War III?
Susan Glasser: “Nuclear blackmail, illegal annexation of territory, hundreds of thousands of Russian men rounded up and sent to the front lines in Ukraine, undersea gas pipelines to Europe mysteriously…
Putin Pledges to Battle the ‘Satanism’ of the United States
President Vladimir Putin on Friday asserted that Russia would take control of four Ukrainian regions and decried the United States for “Satanism” and “neocolonial hegemony” in a speech that marked…
Inflation Hits Double-Digits in Europe
Consumer prices in the 19-country eurozone rose a record 10% in September from a year earlier, up from an annual 9.1% in August, the AP reports. Only a year ago,…
Russians Rebel as Putin Drafts More for Ukraine War
“President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of Russian men to fight in Ukraine has brought home the reality of war to ordinary Russian families,” the New York Times reports. “For months, Russian…
Quote of the Day
“President Biden will let any illiterate gang banger, oftentimes with drugs, come right on in.” — Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), on Fox News.Save to Favorites
House GOP Now Hoping for Bare Majority
Cook Political Report: “As the post-Dobbs surge in Democratic voter enthusiasm and flawed nominees like Majewski and Gibbs have put more GOP ‘reach’ targets out of reach, Republican groups are…
Trump’s Tax Return Excuse Was Made Up on the Fly
“According to a new book, Donald Trump came up with his famous excuse for not releasing his tax returns on the fly – literally, while riding his campaign plane during…
A Few Thoughts for the End of the Week
We are about to witness one of the greatest political comebacks of our lifetimes. On Sunday, Brazilians will head to the polls to choose between President Jair Bolsonaro, the right…
Putin Declares Parts of Ukraine Are Now Part of Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin “said on Friday that he would sign decrees to declare four Ukrainian regions part of Russia as the Kremlin seeks to solidify its tenuous hold over…
Trump Threatened to Go After Reporter’s Phone Records
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reports in her book, Confidence Man, out Tuesday — that former President Trump had threatened internally to go after her phone records to expose…
House GOP Has Already Tried to Impeach Biden
“House Republicans have introduced more than a dozen impeachment resolutions against President Biden and his officials, far outpacing Democrats’ formal impeachment efforts at this point in former President Trump’s term,”…
The Tories Have Become Unmoored from the British People
“In a single week, Britain has gone from being one among many nations facing fierce economic headwinds to being a financial basket case, its currency plunging, bond yields and mortgage…
Bolsonaro’s Party Attacks Brazil’s Voting Systems
“For months, officials in Brazil and across the international community have watched President Jair Bolsonaro cast doubt on Brazil’s voting systems, growing increasingly worried that the far-right leader was setting…
Putin Escalates Battle of the Wills with the West
“President Vladimir Putin plans to carry out his threat today to declare that some 40,000 square miles of eastern and southern Ukraine will become part of Russia, an illegal annexation…
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