Sam Rosenfeld

GOP MIDTERM CRAPITUDE WATCH. How to outspend your opponent 24-to-1 and lose ground. –Sam Rosenfeld

FL-GOV: TWO-WAY CONTEST BECOMES THREE-WAY DEBATE. The suddenly-interesting gubernatorial race in Florida took a surprising turn last night, when self-financed independent Max Linn won a court order 20 minutes before the final gubernatorial debate and joined state Attorney General Charlie Crist (R) and Rep. Jim Davis (D) on the stage. As the Palm Beach Post […]

NANCY. Kevin Drum, Bob Somerby, and Dana Goldstein all offer good comments on this New York Times profile of Nancy Pelosi. Defending Pelosi against petty or mailcious attacks — mainly from her right, but also from her left — used to be a priority of mine before I got too busy, but needless to say […]

ENJOY YOUR TWENTIES. All right, we all know the stakes in the upcomings. But, Lord above, if this thing doesn’t swing the election to the Democratic party, nothing will. Just a note to the people engaged in yesterday’s Are Evangelicals Really Worth Saving? discussion — this kind of idiocy is why the “suckers-or-true believers” debate […]

MORE ON RELIGIOUS VOTERS. Amy Sullivan and Addie Stan know more about the religion issue than I do, so I�d like to get their opinions on the risks of going for the evangelical vote — it strikes me that even the smartest, most heartfelt attempts to lure evangelicals away from the GOP to the Democrats […]

NO REALLY, WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? On the heels of yesterday’s discussion of religion and the Democrats comes this fascinating New York Times article on outreach to evangelicals in Ohio by Democratic candidates Ted Strickland (in the gubernatorial race) and Sherrod Brown. After years of longing, I have finally heard from Strickland, an ordained Methodist […]

CNN POLLS FIVE KEY SENATE RACES. With just a week to go before the midterm elections, CNN released a new poll this morning on the five states political observers are watching most. * Missouri — Sen. Jim Talent (R) and state Auditor Claire McCaskill (D) are right where they’ve been all along, tied at 49 […]

LOOKING AHEAD. The battle for control of state legislatures and the U.S. House of Representatives for the next decade begins one week from today. How’s that? Well, because incumbent governors are re-elected at high rates; and because any four-year-term governors elected this coming Tuesday who are not term-limited from running for re-election in 2010 will […]

ABRACADABRA. Having tracked the religious right’s rise over the last two decades, I must say that, unlike Scott and Sam, I find the argument, rendered via Amy Sullivan, over whether or not the religious right is a tool of the man, or poised to become the man himself, largely irrelevant; either way, we wind up […]

SULLIVAN VS. LEMIEUX. Amy responds to Scott here. –Sam Rosenfeld