The election post-mortems keep rolling in. Politico’s Byron Tau’s report on the remarkable shift in voting patterns among America’s oldest voters goes a long way to explain why last week’s contest became such a rout for Republicans. Voters over 65, he writes, favored Republicans by a 21-point margin after More…
From last night’s premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film,” here’s Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association — an industry-funded group bankrolling ads to turn senior citizens against the Democratic health care reform bills — having a friendly chat with Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). Martin on the left, Wilson More…
One important fact about the 60 Plus Association’s move into the health care debate is that from 1995 through really the end of the Bush administration, its big cause was support for Social Security privatization. It did a lot of blocking and tackling when President Bush pushed for privatization More…
Most folks around the country have had a few privileged weeks to recover from the drone of election-year politics. Not in Georgia, where tomorrow’s run-off vote will decide whether one-term GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss can make it two. And the big guns are out — at least on the Republican More…
Spencer sends over a short video clip revealing that Sen. Saxby Chambliss probably needs some rest.
Facing a runoff election in a few weeks — and recently hit with a subpoena to testify about his ties to the sugar company whose refinery exploded in February, killing 14 More…
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