Poll puts Matthews 3 points behind Specter
There's a long time to go before Election Day 2010 and MSNBC-TV's Chris Matthews hasn't yet jumped into the race, but Rasmussen Reports is out this morning with a survey that puts the Hardball host 3 percentage points behind Pennsylvania...Gallup: Black Democrats & Republicans think alike on many ‘moral’ issues
The pollsters at Gallup this morning put numbers behind some recent conventional wisdom about the views that many black Democrats have about moral issues. "In general," Gallup writes, "it appears that black Americans may be conflicted in their attitudes toward...Florida senator Martinez won’t run for re-election in 2010
Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, says he won't run for re-election in 2010. Martinez held a news conference at 11 a.m. ET to announce his plans. The news is splashed across the front...Obama says governors will be ‘true partners’ in economic recovery
President-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden are meeting with governors this morning in Philadelphia, and they've just given their opening remarks. Both of them noted that states are being hit hard by the recession and 41 states are...Jeb Bush: GOP can’t be ‘old white-guy party’
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and brother of the current president, has a lot of ideas on how his party can recover from losing Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. Bush lets loose with them in...Kerry, Hagel, Lieberman praise Obama national security team
December 1st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Foreign Policy, Iraq war, Obama administration, Republicans
Reaction is rolling in on President-elect Barack Obama's leadership team national security and foreign policy. First, some conservatives. Mary Katherine Ham at The Weekly Standard (jokingly?) accuses the Obama team of "blatant misogyny" and failure of usually "impeccable staging" because...