Yesterday at the White House, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and other senior administration officials rolled out a new strategy to fight HIV and AIDS in America. TWI’s video team was on hand; video and other fun stuff after the jump:
The Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll has the GOP insurgent surging to a 12-point lead over his Republican rival, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Paul’s overall favorable numbers are the highest in the field, nonwithstanding a slowly building campaign to bring them down.
Christine O’Donnell, a longtime conservative activist who took on the thankless task of challenging Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) in 2008, is running against Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the GOP’s Senate nomination. Castle is almost sure to win, O’Donnell almost sure to join the ranks of Tea Party More…
Another poll, another big lead for Rand Paul, the insurgent candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky who really should be labeled the frontrunner now. SurveyUSA has Paul up 42-27 over Trey Grayson, Kentucky’s secretary of state, in the GOP primary. The trendlines since the last SurveyUSA poll in More…
John Weaver and John Yob, two strategists for John McCain’s 2008 bid, are joining up with Democratic consultant Tad Devine to work for Tim Cahill, Massachusetts’ credible independent candidate for governor. Also signing on: Jordan Gehrke, a younger strategist who worked for both McCain and Scott Brown, albeit in More…
Springfield, Ore., Mayor Sid Leiken, one of the GOP’s first strong recruits for the 2010 cycle, is dropping a bid against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). The district, which includes Eugene and runs down the state’s coastline, has a mere D+2 Cook rating — it split 49-49 for Kerry More…
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) gets his first good news in a while with a Quinnipiac poll that has him recovering a lead over Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate who nearly ousted the senator in 2004. He has a 49-42 lead and a 48 percent approval rating.
Other, ambient good More…
A friend passes on this high-quality video of Rand Paul’s closing statement at a candidate forum for Kentucky U.S. Senate candidates. If you’ve watched enough video of his father, Ron, debating Republicans, the resonances and contrasts are remarkable. Rand looks and sounds like his father, but he’s got a More…
The “Republican Obama” — who doesn’t really push back against that term — gets the first real negative coverage of his Florida campaign for U.S. Senate, and fundraises off it in terms reminiscent of the Obama-Biden campaign.
Full email after the jump:
The former governor of Florida does some helpful tackling for Marco Rubio, spending several minutes with a Newsmax interviewer to make the point that Crist’s support of the 2009 economic stimulus can never be forgiven. It emphasizes how much Rubio’s “insurgent” campaign is one of various Republican Party interests More…
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