Happy Primary Day wherever you’re voting today. I know I have some crossed fingers in some races today.
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Connecticut Senate candidate Rob Simmons wants to remind you he's still in the race
< Today’s Hartford Courant, the largest newspaper in Connecticut, makes an interesting endorsement today: Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons has a gold-plated public-service resume. His votes over time have been in line with the mostly moderate traditions of the Republican Party in Connecticut. It is for those reasons that The Courant’s editorial board, with hesitation, recommends that Republican voters in the Aug. 10 primary choose Mr. Simmons to be their standard-bearer in the fall election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Christopher J. Dodd. Interesting because, well, it’d be a surprise to many in Connecticut...
Continue reading...Lesson: Racial slurs are totally fine, so long as they're in a joke
Noted this morning in the Morning Constitutional: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion,” said State Sen. Jake Knotts, of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Knotts backs Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in a four-way Republican primary race. Today, Knotts “apologized.” By “apologized,” of course, I mean, he’s sorry nobody got the joke: Unfortunately, the show was not recorded as was intended. If it had been recorded, the public would be able to hear firsthand that my “raghead” comments about Obama and Haley were intended in...
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There are several pretty important party primaries (and one special election) tomorrow around the country. Well, not important insofar as they’ll have any real impact, but important because they’ll guide the narrative leading to election day in November. Each party will see what messages worked, where the mood of the country is and is heading, and, probably less importantly, how big of a role the tea partiers can have in the election. I’ve been paying attention to most of the races since at least earlier this year, if not earlier, and have seen a stupid amount of...
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