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Corbett Faces Uphill Fight for Re-Election

August 29, 2013 at 8:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A Philadelphia Daily News/Franklin & Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania finds Gov. Tom Corbett (R) in big trouble for re-election next year.

Kye findings: “Just one in five registered voters think Corbett, who faces challengers from his own political party but no primary-election opponent, deserves a second term. It comes as little surprise that just 7% of Democrats want a second term for Corbett. It’s a problem for Corbett that just 22% of independents want him re-elected. It is potentially disastrous that just 38% of Republican voters support his re-election.”

Quote of the Day

August 29, 2013 at 8:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It’s part of a continuing narrative that the party finds itself in with these big deals for minority communities around the country and how they perceive our response to them.”

— Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, quoted by the Washington Post, on GOP leaders not making appearances at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington.

Booker Cruising Into the Senate

August 29, 2013 at 8:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll in New Jersey finds Cory Booker (D) crushing Steve Lonegan (R) in their U.S. Senate race, 50% to 22%.

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Talking America Into War?

August 29, 2013 at 7:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

George Will: “Barack Obama’s foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by ‘smart diplomacy’ — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton’s, rather than a gourmet’s, appetite for his own rhetorical cuisine, and he has talked America to the precipice of a fourth military intervention in the crescent that extends from Libya to Afghanistan.”

Wonk Wire: Can we afford to attack Syria?

San Diego Special Election Will Cost $6 Million

August 29, 2013 at 7:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The special election to replace outgoing San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) “will cost roughly $6 million and could force city leaders to tap reserves or make budget cuts in order to pay for it,” the San Diego Union Tribune reports.

“The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to set the special election for Nov. 19 as the city charter gave the panel zero wiggle room to choose a less-costly option. The voter-approved charter requires a special election if a mayor resigns with more than one year left on his term.”

Pryor Distances Himself from Obama

August 29, 2013 at 6:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Mark Pryor’s (D-AR) “political destiny — and potentially that of the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate — may come down to which president Arkansas voters most closely associate with him,” Bloomberg reports.

“Republicans are trying to paint Pryor as a Barack Obama Democrat who backed the health-care legislation and 2009 economic stimulus. Pryor is more comfortable being associated with a different president, fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton.”

That Clinton is making a big speech in Little Rock on Obamacare next month is probably an attempt to be helpful to Pryor.

States Find New Ways to Thwart Obamacare

August 29, 2013 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Several Republican-led states at the forefront of the campaign to undermine President Obama’s health-care law have come up with new ways to try to thwart it, refusing to enforce consumer protections, for example, and restricting federally funded workers hired to help people enroll in coverage,” the Washington Post reports.

“The actions have drawn less attention than congressional efforts to cut off funding for the law, or earlier state decisions to refuse to set up online insurance marketplaces or reject an expansion of Medicaid, which sharply limited the law’s reach.”

“But the moves could impede Obama’s most significant domestic accomplishment, which, despite having withstood a Supreme Court challenge and a presidential election, still faces doubts about its viability. And they could affect implementation at a crucial time, just as some of the major provisions of the law, also known as Obamacare, are set to go into effect.”

Wonk Wire: Affordable Care Act looks less affordable.

Rumsfeld Says Obama Hasn’t Justified Syria Attack

August 28, 2013 at 6:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “who ushered the U.S. into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, said the Obama administration has not clearly justified an attack on Syria,” The Hill reports.

Said Rumsfeld: “One thing that is very interesting, it seems to me, is that there really hasn’t been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect to this particular situation.”

However, in an interview with the Newhour, Obama cited “America’s core self-interest” as one justification.

Obama Comment Infuriated Putin

August 28, 2013 at 5:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The New York Times says that Russia’s suspicion of President Obama “only intensified after his decision to scuttle a planned summit meeting next week in Moscow and to describe Mr. Putin in unusually personal terms at a White House news conference, saying his body language often made him look ‘like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.'”

“Though Mr. Obama went on to say that their interactions were often constructive, the comment infuriated Mr. Putin, according to one Russian official not authorized to be quoted by name.”

Sorority Girls Offered Free Drinks to Vote

August 28, 2013 at 5:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The University of Alabama’s Chi Omega chapter was offered incentives to members in exchange for voting in the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education election, the Birmingham News reports.

Top Republicans Declined to Speak on MLK Anniversary

August 28, 2013 at 4:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House’s two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined, Roll Call reports.

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

August 28, 2013 at 3:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We don’t face beatings, lynchings and shootings for our political beliefs anymore. Martin Luther King did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock.”

— Bill Clinton, quoted by the Washington Post, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

De Blasio Surges Ahead in New York Mayoral Race

August 28, 2013 at 2:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Quinnipiac poll in New York City finds Bill de Blasio (D) surges ahead of the Democratic pack for mayor with 36% of likely voters, followed by Christine Quinn at 21 percent, Bill Thompson at 20%, Anthony Weiner at 8% and John Liu at 6%.

De Blasio is very close to the 40% threshold needed to avoid a runoff.

Adds pollster Maurice Carroll: “If there is a runoff, he clobbers Christine Quinn or William Thompson.”

Candidate Denies Masturbating at City Hall

August 28, 2013 at 2:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Congressional and possible mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio (R) told NBC San Diego that a news report accusing him of masturbating in a San Diego City Hall restroom as “disgusting, humiliating and nothing more than a character assassination attempt.”

He even offered up results of a polygraph taken August 26.

Weiner Paid for ‘Supporters’ at Recent Events

August 28, 2013 at 1:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Anthony Weiner is “having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide ‘supporters’ for his events,” the New York Post reports.

“Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand… The campaign asked the company to have actors seem ‘like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter.'”

Weiner tweets the story is a hoax.

Running Out of Time for Immigration Reform

August 28, 2013 at 1:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Fall’s fiscal fights have lined up in a way that could delay immigration reform until 2014, multiple senior House Republican leadership aides tell Politico, imperiling the effort’s prospects before the midterm elections.”

“Immigration reform isn’t certain to die if it slips into 2014, some in GOP leadership say. But major progress must be made in 2013 as it would be too difficult for the House to chart a course in 2014, an election year.”

The Coming Collapse of Campaign Finance

August 28, 2013 at 12:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wonk Wire has an important preview of an upcoming Supreme Court case.

Syria Crisis Highlights More GOP Divisions

August 28, 2013 at 11:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

McKay Coppins: “The rapidly-approaching conflict in Syria has begun to draw a deep rift between two sides of a Republican party that have long been drifting apart over foreign policy, pitting the hawkish holdovers of Bush-era neoconservatism against an ascendant libertarian wing that opposes humanitarian intervention.”

“As the Obama administration beats the war drum — calling the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own citizens a ‘moral obscenity,’ and insisting intervention is the only acceptable response — Republicans are scattered all over the philosophical spectrum, without a clear set of talking points, let alone a unified worldview…”

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