Michigan Democratic congressman Bart Stupak is another right-wing conservative infiltrator of the Democratic Party. Stupak represents Michigan's 1st Congressional District, which is located in the woodsy outback of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The area is about as conservative as West Texas. Not exactly a hotbed of progressive thinking. It's the kind [...]
John Fortier, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, has an interesting piece for Politico on the usefulness and pitfalls of primaries. He writes with a focus on the recent New York 23rd Congressional District, but his piece is full of notes worth remembering as Texas' biggest primary in a generation' [...]
For perhaps the first time in American history, seemingly rational adults will sit down and spend significant time dissecting the off-off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and in the much-discussed New York 23rd Congressional District.
Naturally, a consensus will emerge:
The angry-hard-right-radical-insane (etc.) conservative base has [...]
Condolences to the good people of New Jersey and Virginia. They chose to send Republicans to inhabit their governors’ mansions for the next four years and will now have to live with the consequences.
Congratulations to the folks in the 23rd Congressional District of New York. They dealt a serious blow [...]
From Eric Dondero:
Hottest Race in the Country: New York CD 23When software firm MobilVox wanted to break into the lucrative world of defense contracting, it pursued an unmistakable strategy: It expanded operations from its Northern Virginia base in Rep. James P. Moran's congressional district to the southwestern Pennsylvania district of Rep. John P. Murtha.
Working [...]