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Grassley: Elections No Referendum on Obama

By | 11.04.09 | 3:11 pm

The Iowa Independent reports that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) today echoed Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that yesterday’s election results should not be viewed as a referendum on the Obama presidency. From The Iowa Independent:

“I don’t think it’s a referendum on

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NY-23: Conservatives Struggle to Find an Anti-Pelosi Angle

By | 11.04.09 | 2:27 pm

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — On a conference call with some of the conservative leaders who’d backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s upstart campaign in NY-23, I asked for a response to an uncomfortable argument about the results. Hoffman and the outside groups who backed him tried very hard to link More…

A GOP Disappointment in California

By | 11.04.09 | 10:51 am

Republicans have real bragging rights to the election results in Virginia and New Jersey. But I’m still struck by how the National Republican Congressional Committee spun last night’s two congressional races by talking about the governor’s races, not NY-23 and CA-10. In California, a lot of conservatives saw an opportunity More…

GOP Upset in California Special Election Looking Unlikely

By | 10.30.09 | 12:35 pm

The NY-23 special election has gotten so much attention that a special election in California, for the seat of now-Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, has fallen off the the radar. There are Republicans who look at the race in CA-10 as a possible back-breaker for Democrats — former Arkansas Gov. More…