Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/8/09
The week ends with a bit of a flurry, it seems. Enjoy the cornucopia of political information as we kick the weekend off.... NJ-Gov: New Poll Confirms Toss-Up, Christie Still on Defensive A new poll...
View ArticleHelp me send a message to FL-24 NO Vote Kosmas.
I was sickened and disappointed in my Congressperson, Suzanne Kosmas FL-24. She replaced Tom Feeney, the most corrupt, GOP Abramoff scandal-ridden politician in the House: and we were all so excited....
View ArticleCongressional races 2010, round 2: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho
The elections are 11 months away, so I am going to start this series again, updating my earlier ones. FL has 25 representatives: 15 R and 10 D GA has 13 representatives, 8 R and 5 D , seems vulnerable...
View ArticlePolling and Political Wrap-Up, 2/19/10
There aren't many electoral bombshells in the queue on this Friday evening, but there is an ample amount of headlines, including some new data in races that we haven't seen a lot of numbers on thus far...
View ArticleCALL to Action! Tell Kosmas (FL-24) to Act like a DEMOCRAT!
Democrat Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) replaced GOP darling Tom Feeney, the most corrupt, scandal-ridden politician in the House. We were all so excited. But last November, Suzanne voted against healthcare...
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YOU DID IT! Show Vulnerable Pro-HCR Dems: We've Got Your Backs!
You've already gotten us to 200 contributors, so .... NEW GOAL: Let's raise $25,000 today! 10 PM: Done! How about I bump the thermometer up to $30,000 and I wake up tomorrow to see how things look?...
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A Big F'n Deal: Show Them We've Got Their Backs
On Sunday the House of Representatives delivered by passing healthcare reform which President Barack Obama quickly signed into law. Many Democrats from vulnerable districts stood with us and voted for...
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UPDATED - 1st Goal MET: Defend Pro-HCR Dems From Sarah Palin!
Starting on Monday, over 380 of us have raised over $38,000 for 21 vulnerable House Dems who stuck to their principles and passed landmark health care reform, many of whom have now been targeted (with...
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Spring Quarter's Last Day: Get Them To 50K!
As your inbox no-doubt has confirmed for the past 48-72 hours, today is the last day of the fundraising quarter for federal candidates. Whatever's in the door by today will be reported publicly on...
View ArticlePut Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (with poll)
I ain't rolling in dough, but I'm a little better off now than a few years ago. I can afford to make (small) political donations and decided to do so in time for the end of this quarter. I went...
View ArticlePolling and Political Wrap-Up, 4/14/10
In the mid-week edition of the Wrap, there is a lot of money news, which is to be expected given tomorrow's FEC deadline. There are also a handful of new polls, and some campaign launches (and failures...
View ArticleJoe Garcia and hope for Florida Democrats
A new poll showing a lead for Democrat Joe Garcia in Florida's 25th is already garnering significant attention in the blogosphere, but it also makes me wonder if Florida, in an astonishing twist of...
View ArticleCongressional races 2010, round 3: Florida
Summary: Florida has 25 representatives: 15 Republicans and 10 Democrats Primary is Aug 24 Possibly vulnerable FL 8 Grayson D FL 10 Young R FL 12 Open R FL 22 Klein D FL 24 Kosmas D FL 25 Open R
View ArticleCan't spell Nauseate with NASA
The increasingly partisan fight about the funding of human space flight has become more irritating in the months since President Obama first announced he would let the shuttle program end. While I...
View ArticleFinance Reports show Blue Tide in FL
The new campaign finance figures for Florida Congressional races leave me more optimistic than ever about the prospects of Sunshine State Democrats in November. Call my glasses rose-collared, but I...
View ArticlePolling and Political Wrap, 8/17/10
If, like me, you occasionally like to slap your forehead at how old you are getting, here is today's installment: best birthday wishes are in order for Donnie Wahlberg: the older brother of actor Mark...
View ArticleFlorida in House Republicans' Sights
A major ad buy shows the National Republican Congressional Committee will focus heavily on dragon-slaying this year, according to Politico. The NRCC has targeted 40 incumbent Democrats, including three...
View ArticlePrimary Day Preview: AK, AZ, FL, VT
One of the more anticipated primary days in recent weeks is upon us, as high-profile races will be decided in a quartet of states on Tuesday. The action will start early in the evening (when polls...
View ArticleFlorida Primary Results
Update: Every race is done. I'm calling it a night. Thank you all. So I am told there is a primary election in Florida today. The real game kicks off tomorrow morning after we know exactly what the...
View ArticleACTION: 18 Dem House Candidates Who Deserve Our Help
This diary is going to highlight 18 Democratic House candidates who deserve our help. All of the candidates are running for re-election and their seats are considered in jeopardy by The Cook Report....
View ArticleCongressional Candidates’ Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: FL-24
Originally posted on The MarkUp. This is the tenth article in a continuing series by the NRDC Action Fund on the environmental stances of candidates in key races around the country.
View ArticlePolling and Political Wrap, 9/8/10
Yeah, I know...I made a big deal Monday night about how I'd be out until Thursday because of a little trip to the surgeon. But, heck, how was I to know that every campaign in America would get polled...
View ArticlePolling and Political Wrap, 9/28/10
As the mercury mercifully returns to double digits here on the Southern California coast, the heat does not abate on the campaign front. Tuesday brings another 35 polls to the 2010 database, with...
View ArticleFL-24, FL-08: The Kosmas Plan. The Grayson Plan
Central Florida this year may offer the best example of campaign experimentation for Democrats in this entire campaign cycle as Suzanne Kosmas and Alan Grayson take starkly different approaches to...
View ArticleFL-24: Space Jobs
So the Housetoday made it so we get one more shuttle launch. I hope Suzanne Kosmas uses this to her advantage, but that's about all I can say. Per the UPI Science News section, the House voted 304-118...
View ArticleCongressional races 2010, final update, Florida
Summary: Florida has 25 representatives: 15 Republicans and 10 Democrats Possibly vulnerable FL 2 Boyd D FL 8 Grayson D FL 12 Open R FL 22 Klein D FL 24 Kosmas D FL 25 Open R
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Crunch Time: Do YOU Have Their Backs?
We did quite a lot of good in November -- almost 400 Kossacks made 5,545 individual contributions to the twenty most vulnerable Democrats who voted both for health care reform and against the...
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Stupid Goes Viral: Climate Zombies of the Gulf Coast
They prowl the oily shores of the Gulf of Mexico, moaning for caaasshh. Their stupid has gone viral. And if they win, humanity loses. I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for...
View ArticleFlorida Election Guide
... and everywhere else, I know. Still, I thought I would once again do some live-blogging of just the most important races in the Sunshine State. I have posted my hopes, dreams, and pragmatic...
View Article10 Things Florida Voters Taught Me Last Night
My list of things which the voters of Florida taught me last night. Alan Grayson's antics are too outrageous for Congress. Allen West, totally acceptable.
View ArticleBlue America Has A First Congressional Candidate For 2012-- Meet Nicholas...
Although Blue Dog honcho Heath Shuler and ex-Blue Dog DCCC honcho Steve Israel are running around Florida looking for conservative Democrats to run for the GOP-held congressional seats that were lost...
View ArticleFlorida redistricting: New map emerges from Republican legislature
View Larger Map Add one more big state to the tally of states with a fully-formed redistricting map: on Thursday, the Florida state Senate signed off on the map that had passed earlier in the week by...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections Florida cheat sheet
# Rank 08/10 Results Cities Who's running? Redistribution White/ Black/ Hispanic 1 27 P: 32/67 G: 30/63 S: 13/65/20 Pensacola Ft. Walton Bch. Jeff Miller (R-inc) FL-01 (Miller) 95% FL-02 (Southerland)...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Republican Paul Babeu reportedly...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • AZ-04: Wow. Just wow. This story, which broke over the weekend, is...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: New poll has Sen. Joe Manchin up 52...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • WV-Sen, WV-Gov: Holy smokes! Okay, I mean, I know they love Sen. Joe...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: An instant contender for craziest...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • MO-Sen: Whoa. Have you seen this new Todd Akin ad yet? It's like he had...
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Sunshine State Showdowns: A Guide to the 2012 Congressional Races in Florida
Florida: the home of Disney World, snow birds (for half the year), the last known resting place of Governor Rick Scott's hair, and a host of competitive Congressional elections. The Republicans have...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Christie self-servingly sets special...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •NJ-Sen: At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Republican Gov. Chris...
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Morning Digest: Republicans hope that Joe Heck will give Nevada Democrats...
Republican Senate candidate Joe HeckLeading Off: •NV-Sen: On Monday, Rep. Joe Heck kicked off his long-awaited Senate campaign for retiring Sen. Harry Reid's seat. While Heck initially showed no...
View ArticleThe next Eric Cantor is lurking out there. Here's who it might be.
Every cycle, a number of House members find themselves facing tough primary challenges. The 2016 cycle is still developing, but a number of incumbents from both parties look like they could be in...
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Morning Digest: With days to go in Kentucky, another poll shows Conway...
Kentucky Democrat Jack ConwayLeading Off: •KY-Gov: SurveyUSA returns for one last look at the Nov. 3 general, and they find that Democrat Jack Conway holds a 45-40 lead over Republican Matt Bevin;...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Mark Kirk's refusal to pick sides on Scalia seat might just...
Leading Off:●SCOTUS: Every single vulnerable Republican senator has weighed in on whether Barack Obama should be permitted to name a replacement for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, and they're...
View ArticleA black congressional aspirant w/ teabagger agenda
I stumbled across this on Mish Shedlock's blogDeon Long Writes ...Dear Mish,I am in a five-way primary battle for the Republican nomination in Florida’s 24th Congressional District.I am running to...
View ArticleFlorida Progressive Dem starts early to retake Congressional District 24 that...
Nicholas Ruiz, a young Progressive Florida Democrat is starting early in the 2012 U.S. Congressional Campaign season, running to reclaim the District 24 seat that was lost by blue dog Suzanne Kosmas to...
View ArticleNicole Sandler ARRESTED at FL Townhall Last Night! WITH UPDATES
Forgive me if this has already been posted...I skimmed recent and rec list and saw nothing here on Kos yet but this is big...See below for some major updates.... this is just insane!
View ArticleTrump's gains with Latinos were most pronounced in three heavily Cuban...
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide ventures down to Florida, where Republicans flipped two House seats and again captured the state’s...
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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Lavern Spicer
Welcome to what is the 1048th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Lavern Spicer, who was a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Yes, Sarah Palin's flirting with a House bid—but don't expect...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Mo Brooks' back-from-the-dead routine looks like it's just...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Daniel Donner, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Trump's candidates faceplant again in Georgia's House runoffs
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Daniel Donner, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David...
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