Category Archives: campaigns
“Beating Back the War on Judges; Voters rejected the crusade to politicize the courts.”
Bert Brandenburg has written this piece for Slate.
“In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes”
Philadelphia Inquirer: “It’s one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch. These are… Continue reading
“For One Night At Fox, News Tops Agenda”
NYT:
By now, most of you have no doubt seen or read about the election-night stare-down between the anchors at Fox News and Karl Rove, who, apart from running a “super PAC” that aimed to defeat… Continue reading
“Montana school superintendent race headed for recount”
Provisional ballots greatly exceed margin between candidates.
“Private consultants see huge election profits”
“Votes in six House races still being counted, seventh will see runoff”
“Mitt Romney’s ORCA program couldn’t stay afloat”
“Ethics in Play, Voters Oust Incumbents Under Scrutiny”
“Karl Rove: Obama ‘succeeded by suppressing the vote’”
WaPo reports.
Tom Edsall, hardly a Rove ally, made a similar point back in July.
It is worth pointing out, though (as Dan Eggen did in a tweet yesterday), that Rove’s groups ran more negative ads than the Obama… Continue reading
Four Planes
Fascinating tidbit from the NYT inside report of the campaigns:
Even as the networks declared Mr. Obama the winner, Mr. Romney, who had earlier told reporters he had written only a victory speech, paused before the walk downstairs from his… Continue reading
“Redistricting shakes up California House races”
“An historic loss: Howard Berman falls to Brad Sherman”
“Rove’s On-Air Rebuttal of Fox’s Ohio Vote Call Raises Questions About His Role”
NYT reports on the most fascinating political television meltdown I’ve seen.