Most Democrats and even many Republicans agree that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lucked out in a major way when he drew tea party candidate Sharron Angle as his GOP challenger for Senate in 2010. So why, on the eve of his first (and only) debate with Angle — and More…
On the heels of my piece today about former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) and his remarkable ability to project moderation when the facts say otherwise, both he and Rep. Joe Sestak (D) have new ads up on the airwaves today claiming they represent the middle of Pennsylvania politics, while More…
As in many close elections, Pennsylvania’s Senate race has largely become a contest about defining and capturing the elusive middle. Democrats might enjoy a substantial registration advantage in the state, courtesy of the 2008 elections, but the state’s swing voters — mostly middle-class suburbanites with tolerant social views and moderate More…
Here’s a textbook case for the DISCLOSE Act that’s up tomorrow for a vote. It centers on Americans for Job Security, a pro-business issue advocacy group, that has reported zero dollars in donations supporting ads that cost millions to create and air.
The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack ads targeting “the liberal, out-of-touch records of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Gov. Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold, Michael Bennet, and Harry More…
Commonsense Ten, a Democrat-leaning independent spending outfit — and one of the first groups, along with Club for Growth, to petition the FEC to create a new category of “independent expenditure committees” allowed to raise unlimited funds from individuals — is finally up with its first ad of the More…
Earlier this year the organization SpeechNow.org won a sweeping victory against the FEC in the courts, which ruled that, in the wake of Citizens United, the group could raise unlimited sums of money as long as it doesn’t contribute directly or coordinate its activities with political candidates or parties. Despite More…
From Friday, but still worth noting, is a rather comprehensive list compiled by the Think Progress blog of all the monetary pledges conservative groups have made for spending in the upcoming November election:
Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is getting some help from his old friends today. The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization founded by Wall Street investors, announced a new 30-second ad today that will air statewide in Pennsylvania and attack Toomey’s opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) as “very liberal.” More…
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) will endorse Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) today in his Senate bid against former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Hagel told the Associated Press yesterday that Sestak, a fellow veteran, will put the interests of the nation ahead of his party:
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