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Better Know a District

Speaking of House seats … the math geek readers of Swing State Project have released their latest round of data on congressional districts, calculating the respective vote tallies for President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain in almost every district in California, Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. An analysis of which districts voted for George W. [...]


Portmania!

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up conservatives like nothing since Sarah Palin shot sparkles from her eyes. Hugh Hewitt:
This is an easy call for GOP supporters across the country.  Rob Portman is smart, experienced, [...]


Kerry vs. Clinton

I’ll admit to some professional shpilkis over the meeting between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama. After all, I published a piece on Election Day about how Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was atop the short list to become Obama’s secretary of state — a list I had no idea Clinton was on. So [...]


Obama Rolls Out Cancer Policy as Kerry Rebuts Palin

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign unveiled a new plank of its health-care policy on Friday. They outlined a plan to fight cancer, double funding for cancer research to $5 billion a year, protect cancer patients against health-care discrimination for pre-existing conditions and revive the National institute of Health, or NIH.
About 10 million Americans experience cancer during [...]


Obama’s Convention Ratings Still Rising

Sen. Barack Obama’s convention speech may seem like old news, as Americans worry about Hurricane Gustav and the political class focuses on Gov. Sarah Palin and the GOP convention. Yet the number of people who have watched Obama’s speech continues to rise.
On Thursday, the TV audience was 41.9 million people. That’s more than double [...]


Liveblog: John Kerry Is On

DENVER — Do you hear that paint peeling? That’s John Kerry, possible future secretary of state.
7:36: Obama and Biden will “make clear: the United States of America does not torture. Not now. Not ever!”
7:37: McCain. The “myth of a maverick to the reality of a politician.” He compares “Senator McCain” to “Candidate McCain.” He flip-flops [...]