Elections 2010

Josh Kraushaar catches a surprising poll in the 2010 primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. In the GOP race, Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a first-time candidate, has jumped out to a small lead over Secretary of State Trey Grayson. The trends:
Rand Paul – 35 (+9)
Trey Grayson – 32 (-4)

The smart take among liberal and Democratic strategists is that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is making an empty threat to filibuster his party’s health care bill. But there are short-term consequences for what Lieberman is doing. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is using Lieberman to push Democrats in red and purple states to back away [...]

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical Gingrichian hyberbole:
The Republican Revolution in 1994 started very much like what we see today. Like then, our country is reeling from misguided liberal policies, high taxes and out-of-control spending. This [...]

The candidates share a rationale: if any Democrats deserve to lose next year, it will be the powerful committee chairmen who are shepherding the party’s agenda through Congress.

Aurora, Colo. Councilman Ryan Frazier, an African-American Republican I spoke to for this piece on 2010 candidates, has dropped his Senate bid and launched a congressional campaign. Frazier’s new target: Rep. Earl Perlmutter (D-Colo.), who captured the state’s 7th District, which includes Aurora, in 2006.
The 7th District is considerably bluer than the rest of the [...]

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is going on the air for his 2010 re-election campaign, running two minute-long ads. One image that jumps out, from the ad titled “Hard Work”:

TWI’s David Weigel took to MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night to talk about his reporting on the Tea Party-spurred divisions that are emerging within the GOP. Video after the jump.

The newest poll from Siena Research Institute has Democratic candidate Bill Owens grabbing the lead in a three-way race to replace former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.). Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has faded slightly, due in large part to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman grabbing 27 percent of the self-identified Republican vote.

The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running for Congress in New Mexico’s heavily Democratic 3rd District. Kokesh is running basically unchallenged for the Republican nomination, running an anti-war campaign in a district Republicans are not really targeting for 2010 — [...]

This Sun-Sentinel video of Florida Republicans at a firing range pretty much speaks for itself. But did Robert Lowry, the Republican challenging Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), really need to have the letters “DWS” next to the silhouetted head of his target?
h/t: The Hill.