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October, 2009 Entries


October 31

    • Actual News on a Saturday: Dede Goes Bye-Bye

October 30

    • Callin' in Sick
    • One Guy's Take on Why Christie Will Win by Four or Five Percentage Points
    • Governor Who Broke Tax Pledge Insists He Really Means It This Time
    • I'd Rather Be Up Three Than Down Three, But . . .
    • ANOTHER Quinnipiac Poll?
    • 'We've got to spur our economy, Don. Dunkin' Donuts, IHOP, those people have to work, too!"
    • Owens & His Allies Have Spent Almost Twice as Much as Dede on Media
    • There Are Unconfirmed Reports That Tim Kaine Is Still Technically Governor of Virginia
    • New Jersey's Last Four Days: All Tolls, All the Time
    • 'Out-of-Staters for Corzine' Gains Momentum
    • Do 8 Percent of New Jerseyans Need to Be Reminded About Daggett?
    • Concerns About 'Rook and Crook' In Virginia?

October 29

    • New Jersey Is Close, Which Means New Jersey Is Going to Be Tough to Win
    • Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests
    • Latest Poll Doesn't Quite Show Doug Hoffman Winning, But . . .
    • When It Comes to Democrats, This Actually Is Just 'Normal Activity'
    • Ah, Those Perennial Late-Breaking Undecideds . . .
    • National Conservative Campaign Fund Sends Hoffman Endorsement Letter
    • Jon Corzine Appears to Lead Among Convicted But Not Yet Sentenced Felons
    • The Campaign Never Ends: Hillary Bashes Bush in Pakistan
    • Harmer Turns to the M&M Boys: Mark and Mitt
    • "I know that ultimately the measure of an economy is, ‘Is it producing jobs?’”
    • A Pair of Revealing Answers In Virginia

October 28

    • Perhaps He'll Say, 'This Man Can Fill This District's Potholes'
    • I Guess This Debate Works, Since These Two Are Competing For the Same Voters
    • Every Time the Sun Sets, We Get Closer to Toomsday
    • Latest Deeds Flyer Easily Mistaken For Obama 2008 Mailer
    • Good Try, Creigh, Good Try!
    • Remembering Some Recent New Jersey Polling History
    • Insert Hunting Trip Joke Here
    • Man With Limited Career Options Threatens Mutually Assured Destruction
    • Governor 27-Percent-Approval-Rating Endorses Democrat Bill Owens
    • The Quinnipac Poll Makes a Bit More Sense Now...
    • Peeking at the Early Returns of New Jersey's Absentee Ballots
    • Is Charlie Crist Examining Jon Corzine's Playbook?
    • Newt Makes the Pitch for Dede/Asks For Abuse, One More Time
    • Eight of Past Nine Polls Put McDonnell's Lead in Double Digits
    • Who Here Thinks Jon Corzine Can Bring Out More Democrats Than Barack Obama?
    • Charismatic Washington-Based Basketball Star Calls Chris Christie 'Slick'
    • Campaigning Lessons From Ken Cuccinelli
    • He's Had to Tighten His Belt to a Mere 20some Million
    • Quinnipiac Sees a Different New Jersey Race Than Rasmussen, PPP

October 27

    • Boy, Who Do You Have to Sleep With to Get That Column Published? Oh, Wait.
    • Can Garamendi Appeal to the 'California Moderates' in the 10th District?
    • Bob McDonnell and the Best-Smelling Campaign Event of the Year
    • The Hard Road, and Funny Ad, of a New Jersey Independent
    • Potential for Big GOP Pickups In Virginia's House of Delegates
    • Deeds Clawing His Way Back; Now Trails Only 58–41
    • Deeds Is Done
    • A Slight Sense of Momentum for Chris Christie
    • David Harmer Might Be Running the Right Race at the Right Time
    • This Is a Bad Day to Have Your Campaign Website Down
    • A Note of Caution About These Polls Showing Hoffman Up
    • Chris Daggett Knows the Score
    • A Surprise, and Rumors of Backroom Pushing, in Wisconsin
    • Almost Half of Respondents Mess With Joe Biden
    • Loading Up on Young Guns

October 26

    • It's the Little Things That Make the Deeds Campaign Such a Winner
    • Final Post Poll Has No Good News for Deeds
    • 93 Percent Turnout in New Jersey? Somehow, I Doubt That
    • A Pox on . . . Well, One of Your Houses More Than the Other
    • God Called, He Thinks You Have Too Much Money
    • Pawlenty's Late to the Hoffman Party, but Everybody's Glad He Came Anyway
    • The Strategy Behind Sign Blitzes
    • Could Be a Very Interesting Poll in New Jersey Tomorrow
    • Creigh Deeds: Even His Yard Signs Are a Negative Attack
    • Wait, How Could Someone Have an Unfavorable Opinion of Dede Scozzafava?
    • Harmer Running Right at the Public Option in California
    • When You Have No Other Argument, Put Up a Lot of Signs
    • It Can Happen: Congressman Doug Hoffman
    • What Will the Final Post Poll in Virginia Say?
    • Doug Hoffman, the Democrats' Top Target in NY-23
    • What, They Couldn't Get Hank Williams Jr.?
    • A Poll With Bad News for Christie? Or Just a Bad Poll?
    • In New Jersey, It's an 'F' vs. a Question Mark on Guns
    • As Long as We're Talking Newspaper Endorsements, Creigh . . .
    • We Can See Which Fight He's More Interested In
    • Territorial Concessions in Afghanistan?
    • If I Still Worked at a Wire Service . . .
    • A Scenario Few Republicans Were Prepared For

October 24

    • Maybe the Deeds Campaign Could Use an Ottoman
    • Another Outrage for Joe Klein's New Alien and Sedition Act

October 23

    • Priorities
    • Democratic Councilwoman: 'Corzine [looked] the other way in the face of corruption for his own political benefit.'
    • NRCC: '[Conservative] Party bosses in New York have been sold a bill of goods in the form of Doug Hoffman's deceptive smoke-and-mirrors campaign.'
    • Health-Care Analysis From Garrulous Irishmen
    • McDonnell's Flowers Bloom
    • Jon Corzine: Fighting the Corrupt by Writing Them Checks
    • Jon Corzine's Strategy of Mobilizing Cynicism
    • The White House Body-Slams Creigh Deeds's NoVa Turnout Efforts
    • Adding a Bit to a Healthy Debate
    • Sarah Backs Doug

October 22

    • Democratic Party Boss Convicted; Christie Accuses Corzine of Enabling Corruption
    • Creigh Deeds Tries His Fifteenth Negative Ad
    • NYC/Philadelphia Markets Remain Almost-All Corzine, All The Time
    • How Reliable Is Dede Scozzafava's Account of Monday Night?
    • Newt Tries to Make the Case for Dede
    • It's Time for Dede Scozzafava and Her False Police Report to Go
    • Economic Outlook Should Be Great for Derb's Book Sales
    • Is Somebody About to Make Doug Hoffman's Day?
    • The Dick Tracy Villain 'Mumbles' Speaks More Directly Than Creigh Deeds
    • Er, No, David
    • Creigh Deeds Makes the RGA's Life Easy
    • Obama Defends the Indefensible: Jon Corzine
    • Trust Them
    • 'A vote for Corzine, or Daggett, is a vote for higher taxes.'

October 21

    • Nevadans Don't Like You, Harry
    • Remembering the Impact of Obama's Last Visit to Help Corzine
    • Something's Jumping Down in Frog Jump, Tennessee
    • Glenn & Doug, Hanging Out Together a Lot (UPDATE: And Mark!)
    • Every Once in a While, the Polls Look Really Consistent . . .
    • 'Mr. President, New Jerseyans Want Change.'
    • Barack Obama Endorses Notorious Bear Killer
    • A Whole Lot of People Need Saving -- A Whole State's Worth
    • Creigh Deeds Must Hate Post-Debate Press Conferences
    • It's Time for the RNC and NRCC to Ask for Their Money Back
    • One Quinnipiac Result Earning Skepticism

October 20

    • Next Up, a Willie Horton Ad Featuring John McCormack
    • Finally, a Campaign Ad That Touts a Candidate's 'Major Strategic Blunder'
    • SurveyUSA Shows McDonnell Clinging to a 59–40 Lead
    • How Many Republican Challengers Outraised Democratic Incumbents Last Quarter?
    • Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
    • Obama Has Attended Five Fundraisers Since McChrystal Made His Request
    • Chris Christie vs. The New York Times
    • Looking Closely at New Jersey's Poll Numbers
    • Officers! Arrest That Man for Assault With a Deadly Question!
    • New Jersey Discovers a Whole New Kind of Numbers Racket
    • VFW Grumbling About White House Delay on Afghanistan Decision

October 19

    • Creigh Deeds, on Both Sides of the Abortion Issue Within Five Days
    • Jon Corzine Inherited Good Times, and Ended Them
    • Will We See Movement to Deeds in the Final Weeks?
    • Don't Get Sick If You Work for Chris Daggett
    • The Phrase That Pays
    • If You Like His Performance as Governor So Much, Try Living Here
    • When the Times Can't Spin a Record, You Know It's a Bad One
    • Our Conscience Can Rest, Apparently
    • Philadelphia and New York's Love for Corzine, Explained
    • Another Incumbent Democratic Governor With Good Reason To Worry . . .
    • Institutional Loyalty vs. Individual Loyalty
    • Because New Jersey Is Hungry for Change
    • The Philadelphia Inquirer Practices the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
    • 'We wanted to hear more about why Deeds should be governor and less about why his opponent should not be.'
    • Who Should Republican Committees Back in New York's Special Election?

October 18

    • A Predictable, Yet Audacious, Endorsement

October 16

    • Bob McDonnell's Latest Ad Features Sheila Johnson and... a Hidden Muppet
    • Hillary Clinton's Complete 180 on the Taliban
    • Feel That Stimulus in Virginia!
    • Feel That Stimulus in New Jersey!
    • 'Jersey Jobs Con Job'
    • Judging From This Polling Sample, Corzine Should Put Up Some Ads or Something

October 15

    • Worst Debate Answer Ever?
    • Speaking of Money . . .
    • Maoists in the White House. No, Really.
    • But in the End, You Can't Change the Name on the Ballot
    • Creigh Deeds Shocks Virginians With Positive Ad . . . Nah, Just Kidding
    • Which Candidates Can Get Donors to Open Their Wallets?
    • John Garamendi, Petty and Miserable Soul
    • Castles Are Hard to Knock Down
    • A Number to Keep in Mind in New Jersey
    • Creigh Deeds Brings in Mr. Excitement
    • In a Three-Way Race, 33 Percent Looks Like a Lot
    • The Outlook for Christie and Republicans in New Jersey
    • Because I Always Wear a Suit When I Work at Home
    • Democratic House Candidate Attacks the Wrong Guy
    • New Jersey Government Touts Employment Program That Has Created . . . Four Jobs
    • 'It's hard to imagine a worse candidate to reassemble the Obama coalition than Creigh Deeds.'

October 14

    • You Figure Dodd's One Skill Was Getting Money Into His Own Pocket
    • Time's Running Out to Have Me Call You Tonight
    • New Jersey's Sunny Job Numbers Reach Their Expiration Date, for the Fifth Straight Time
    • Obama Touts Transportation Stimulus in State That Has Spent Least
    • Surprisingly Weak Numbers for Obama in New Jersey
    • Chris Daggett Is No Jesse Ventura, Nor Is He Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • Interesting Video from the Republican Governors Association, Part One
    • A Blowout Coming in Virginia?
    • Does the Governor Manage State Government, or Use It as a Campaign Tool?
    • Comstock Rising
    • Jon Corzine Can't Quite Get Rid of That Last Percentage Point
    • And Now for Some News That's Special

October 13

    • Maybe That Faux Presidential Seal Wasn't a One-Time Deal
    • Baltimore Football Fans May Quibble About His Idea of 'Sensitivity'
    • Northern Virginia Paper Endorses McDonnell
    • Nudge-Nudge
    • Jonny Two-Note
    • In Your Face, Bloomberg
    • Maybe They Could Put Out a Color-Coded Chart
    • Washington Post Employee Suggests Washington Post Endorsement Decisive
    • They're Not Getting the Band Back Together
    • Now We Know What Makes Jon Corzine Happy
    • A Senate Candidate Who's ACORN-Tested, ACORN-Approved
    • With Implausible Polls Like This, That Campaign Ought to Be Meek
    • Because That's What Public Schools Need: Campaign Mail
    • Chris Christie Is in a Fight, but Not Doomed . . .
    • Kirk's Senate Enterprise Gaining Momentum
    • Name That Party? Try Name That Name.
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Fifty: More Suspicious Absentee Ballots
    • Lord, Make Me Chaste, but Not Yet
    • Creigh Deeds, Hell-Bent on Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy

October 12

    • Culture of Corruption, Part Forty-Nine: Fraudulent Absentee Ballot Edition
    • ACORN Employee, Caught in Voter Registration Fraud, to Have Wrist Slapped, Lightly
    • Everything Old Is New Again
    • Candidate Boldly Pledges to Tax the Heck Out of Those Faraway Counties
    • Chris Christie's Campaign Tangles With the New Jersey Teachers' Union
    • A Regrettable Endorsement, in More Ways Than One
    • Expect More Mud Next Year
    • Somebody at Gannett Has a Sense of Humor
    • Deeds's Troubles Go Well Beyond President Obama
    • All You Need Is Con-fi-dence . . .
    • Remember When Journalists Wanted to 'Afflict the Comfortable'?
    • Watch the Pronoun
    • Chris Daggett, Jon Corzine's Bodyguard

October 09

    • I Know You've Probably Never Heard of This Conflict, But . . .
    • Keeping an Eye on Those Special Elections for the House
    • And You Thought Foreign Cash Would Stop Heading Obama's Way After the Election
    • New Jersey Democrats Love Jon Corzine Again
    • The Award Isn't Just Early; It Ignores the Early Results
    • President at War Receives Peace Prize
    • 'People don't vote the negative stuff.'
    • Funny How Voters Notice When You Don't Talk About Issues
    • Let Me Be Clear: We Must Credit Obama for His Accomplishments

October 08

    • The Mother of All Expiration Dates: The Taliban Is No Longer a Direct Threat to Us
    • Post Puts McDonnell Up 9; Voters Tiring of the Thesis Attacks
    • The Most Prosperous Two Words Ever Spoken?
    • Aren't More Independents Going to Vote in New Jersey's Governor's Race?
    • Where's That Poll With Christopher Daggett at 17 Percent?
    • Looks Like It's Time for Another Address to Congress
    • The NRA Victory Fund's Rather Broad Impression of Bloomberg's 'Cronies'
    • I Thought Bees Were Supposed to Have Compound Eyes and Good Vision
    • Awaiting Formation of the Official 'Roman Polanski Defenders for Obama' PAC
    • Jon Corzine's Hilarious Ethnic Jokes
    • I Hear Her Primary Rival, Palm Reader, Is Renting Out MSG the Same Night
    • Could Delaware's Senate Race Turn Into a Gimmee For Republicans?
    • Maybe the Fat-Joke Tactic Makes Sense Now
    • Deeds Won't Let a Crowd Mess With Joe Biden
    • Corzine Campaign One Step Away From 'Yo Momma' Jokes

October 07

    • The Republican I Support the Least Seems to Be Doing Fine Without Me
    • The 'Mommy Tax' Sounds Painful, But You Have No Idea
    • Pakistanis Ask Why They Should Fight the Taliban if the President Won't
    • Campaigns Are Tough When You're Outspent 3 to 1
    • 'We Don't Like to Use the "T-Word." Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh!'
    • Creigh Deeds Touts 'Good Signs' in Economy as Unemployment Hits New High
    • Hey, How About You Play the Role of a Full-Time Congressman?
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Forty-Eight
    • Yet Another House Race to Watch in Virginia Next Year
    • A Million a Week in Negative Ads Can Make Anybody Look Bad

October 06

    • Perhaps the Biden Curse Is Contagious
    • Ironically, He's Paid Good Money for All Those Negative Ads
    • Meet the Two Newest GOP Recruits
    • Obama's Domestic-Agenda Ambitions Preclude Any Afghan Troop Surge
    • Back When Western Leaders Could Meet With the Dalai Lama . . .
    • Those Town Halls Are Still Going On . . .
    • Environmental Group Endorses Republican. No, Really.
    • A Little-Noticed Winning Streak for Delaware Republicans
    • Castle's In; Expect a Tough Fight, But No Fireworks
    • Does Mike Castle Want to Be a Senator?
    • 'Charlie Crist ought to start worrying.'
    • No, Really, I Will Call You
    • Is This Guy Running for Congress? Heck, Yes!
    • Jon Corzine Catches Up . . . But Notice Those Other Poll Numbers
    • Those Darn Undiagnosed, Unattended, Unmentioned Disabilities

October 05

    • Offices Don't Talk, Officials Do
    • SurveyUSA Has McDonnell Up by 11
    • But I'm Sure When He Said It, It Was All In Fun
    • Stuart Rothenberg Whacks AP Coverage of NJ Governor's Race
    • Karl Rove Makes His Pick in Florida's Senate Primary: Rubio
    • What Do Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, and Michael Bennet Have in Common?
    • Chris Christie Wants to Tell You 'Exactly' What He'll Do
    • The Clock Is Ticking on Afghanistan
    • Is Creigh Deeds Physically Handicapped or Not?
    • Shorter Zakaria: The Obama Administration Is Always Right
    • My Readers Want to See More from Chris Christie
    • McDonnell's Campaign Has Doubled McCain Campaign's Door-Knocking Efforts
    • Has Obama Done His Last Favor for Creigh Deeds?
    • Obama Introduces Dalai Lama to Concept of 'Expiration Dates'
    • Virginia's Getting Expensive for Both Parties
    • Barbara Boxer's Approval Is at 41 Percent?
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Forty-Seven: Hide the Kids
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Forty-Six: This One Stinks
    • 'I Think I Made Myself Clear, Young Lady.'
    • I Wonder if Corzine Has Read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
    • Shinseki's Defenders Label McChrystal a Threat

October 02

    • Brazilians Wax Chicago
    • The Big Guy's Only Supposed to Take the Stage When the Deal's Done
    • No Olympics for Chicago
    • Things Are Rotten Here, Never Mind in the State of Demark
    • Who Does Obama Trust More, McChrystal or Biden?
    • Tim Pawlenty's Fans Make the Case for Their Man
    • Reality Continues to Mess With Joe Biden and His Wildest Dreams

October 01

    • Contemplating Alan Grayson's Political Future . . .
    • Offer Implies Enrollment in Christie Advantage
    • Rep. Alan Grayson Rakes In the Cash
    • Which Comes First, the Afghanistan Surge Decision or the World Series?
    • Your Name-Calling Is Dangerous, My Name-Calling Is Just Honesty
    • Juvenile Helps Persuade Tom Friedman of Danger from 'Right Fringe'
    • If Creigh Deeds Has a Split Personality, It Explains a Lot
    • Because the Economy, Health Care, Iran and Afghanistan Are Fixed
    • Keep This In Mind With Tomorrow's Unemployment Number
    • Hey, At Least This Guy Kept All His Fingers
    • Tim Pawlenty Gets Called Up to the Major Leagues
    • Where Are Those 'Expert Military Analysts'?
    • Someone Should Introduce Hillary to the 82nd Airborne
    • From 'Hold Me Accountable' to 'It's Not My Fault'
    • Avalanche of Mud Predicted in Virginia
    • Each Rotation of the Earth Brings Us 24 Hours Closer to Toomsday
    • General Concern on Afghanistan?

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