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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele held a press conference this morning to analyze his party’s election victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey and its loss in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. After the jump, watch some video from the event.

It’s all in the lede of this one from Marco Rubio, the conservative Florida Republican who’s running against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in next year’s Senate primary.
Marco is not just a conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan, he’s a conservative in the mold of our Founding Fathers.
The email, written by Dusty Bailey, asks conservatives [...]

If now is the time for underdogs to shine, we’ll need to take a serious look at Michael E. Arth, an artist, developer, activist and, most recently, Democratic candidate for governor of Florida. He’s the rare aspiring pol with a zero percent unfavorable rating (to one percent favorable and 99 percent shrugged shoulders). And his [...]

The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey reports that everybody’s favorite congresswoman, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), might have to fend off a challenger from her own party when she runs for re-election next year.
Woodbury attorney Chris Johnston says he is “mulling a run” against Rep. Michele Bachmann in the next Republican primary. Johnston says the district needs [...]

Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and current Democratic contender for governor of Virginia, tried to pay off Ralph Nader, to keep the consumer activist from running in swing states during the 2004 presidential election, The Washington Post reports.
“Terry McAuliffe is slipperier than an eel in olive oil,” Nader said in an interview.
He said [...]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary next year.
Whitman is hosting a townhall meeting in Fresno today — and you know McCain can’t resist a good townhall.

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.
Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) by 35 [...]

Progressive-around-town Adam Green has set up a Facebook group called “I support a real progressive against Arlen Specter,” which is what it sounds like: a place to pledge $25 if a more liberal candidate runs against Specter in the Democratic primary. So far they have 286 members, which would make for $7150, which isn’t nothing, [...]

Supporters of homeschool constitutional amendment courting Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) as he fends off conservative challengers.