Sam Boyd

Well the Alaska Senate race was almost certainly decided today: WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial […]

This is pretty impressive: A document provided to Washington Whispers from a House GOP official shows that they could lose a net 34 seats. That means the Democrats would have a 270-165 advantage in the 111th Congress. In the Senate, Republicans expect to lose also but to keep up to 44 seats, ensuring their ability […]

Recently, group of Republicans actually protested an early voting location in North Carolina: As you can see from these videos, no one held anything back. People were shouting about Obama‘s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word “terrorist.” They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not […]

Politico reports today that networks are grappling with the possibility that an Obama victory will become apparent early in the night on Nov. 4th. If, as seems likely, Obama wins Virginia, where the polls close at 7 PM EST, the piece points out it will be fairly clear fairly how the election will shake out […]

You may not have noticed amid the clamor over Democrats’ chances of reaching 60 seats in the Senate, but they’re also set to make big gains in the house — perhaps even equaling their 30 seat gain in 2006: Independent political analysts like Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook have upped their predictions of Democratic gains […]

The RNC has a hilarious new ad out resurrecting the experience attack on Obama: There are some obvious problems here: McCain has no more executive experience than Obama, and he’s done much worse at the biggest executive test either has ever faced — running a presidential campaign (recall how his collapsed completely last summer). And, […]

From the AP: Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. In other news, Phoebe and I have conducted a thorough investigation of typos on […]

Christopher Orr highlights some numbers from the insta-polls after last night’s debate that are even more favorable to Obama than the overall “who won the debate” figures: Those surveyed thought Obama was more intelligent than McCain by 57 – 25 and expressed himself more clearly by 60 – 30. Obama reversed a prior weakness as […]

Especially on foreign policy, this debate is deeply repetitive of the previous two debates, even though the questions are supposedly more diverse since they come from ordinary people (maybe that’s because they were all screened by Tom Brokaw). For McCain it’s that he opposed sending troops to Lebanon, that Obama opposes the surge, and that […]