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Electoral-vote.com has done the work to compile a fine list of the Senate’s most liberal members, using as a benchmark the aggregate scores from seven independent ranking organizations. On the one hand, each organization tends to focus on one area of policy, which helps analytically separate the senators using a common metric. On the other […]

This Laura Rozen report at Mother Jones is a glimpse into a future conservative coalition. The piece focuses on the perceived failure of Sheldon Adelson, major contributor to Freedom’s Watch, to build a formidable infrastructure to challenge what progressives have built during the Bush years: In not-for-attribution interviews, a few conservative think tank hands and […]

Last week, a NY Times/CBS poll found that 81 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and now, according to this Pew survey, 56 percent of Republicans agree. Obviously, if voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, then it stands to reason that they will be inclined […]

The Politico has a good story today on the funding problems facing the 2010 U.S. Census. As I noted last month, earlier attempts to upgrade data-gathering technology through a Republican-friendly contractor ultimately failed, leaving the Bureau with a significant shortfall. To make matters worse, the Bush administration is funding these shortfalls with money that had […]

Those are the call signs for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton respectively. Both have had Secret Service protection earlier than any presidential candidate. Clinton’s protection is part of the mandatory detail given to ex-presidents and their families. Other viable candidates for president don’t get a detail unless they request one. In fact, John McCain hasn’t […]

Back in late February, SUSA released a report that used polling data from all 50 states to game out hypothetical Clinton–McCain and Obama-McCain general election matchups. The results showed each Democrat would win, but in quite different fashions. Unfortunately the polls had small samples and large margins of error which is problematic since many states […]

According to Bloomberg, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton in support from elected officials: Obama, an Illinois senator, has the support of 99 Democratic U.S. lawmakers and governors, compared with Clinton’s 96 — a dramatic turnabout since the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, when Clinton, a New York senator, had more than double Obama’s support within […]

Donna Edwards, that is. Turns out she won’t have to wait until November to start representing MD-04: Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) will ask the state legislature to pass emergency legislation that would allow the state to hold a special general election to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D) without first holding a […]

I just got off of a conference call set up by Democratic National Convention Committee office of Online Communications set up to discuss the logistics of granting bloggers media credentials for the convention. Since last December, bloggers have been encouraged to submit an application for the credentials, with the goal being to have one blogger […]

Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch has an interesting editorial kicking off the April issue of the magazine. In it he argues that Ron Paul‘s undoing was brought about indirectly by allegations of racism — indirectly because “the issue of race relations has hovered uncomfortably around the edges of libertarian politics” going back to the early 1990s. […]