- Runoff elections wave of the future? (LETTER The Republican - MA) As the political parties decline in power and favor, the day may come where we see one ballot with all the names for each position and the voter makes his choice of one for each office and after votes are tabulated there will be a runoff for the two top vote-getters. The day that comes, politics as we know it will be gone.
- Young People And Minorities Are All The President Has Left (By Jim O'Sullivan, National Journal/Congressional Connection Poll) While fully 72 percent of voters 65 and over saying they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, only 39 percent of those under 30 share that dissatisfaction.
- Blue Dog Research Forum and Zogby Partner to Survey Key Voter Demographic: Likely Independent Voters (PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire)
- The Trouble With Obama’s Rolling Stone Interview (by Paul Hogarth‚ Beyond Chron) But I want to zero in on the part where Obama says his election made the Democrats a “bigger tent” – a wider coalition that makes it harder to keep together when you govern. It’s true that Obama won many Republican and independent voters in the last election, but they knew how progressive he was going to be. Obama did not win Indiana because they expected him to govern like Evan Bayh. George Bush had failed them, and these “red-state voters” were fully ready to accept a President called Barack Hussein Obama.
- Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview (By Jann S. Wenner)
- Analysis: GOP's 'Pledge to America' aimed at independent voters (Analysis, Salem News - MA)
- Bloomberg to address House GOP (By Molly K. Hooper, The Hill) Bloomberg, considered a possible presidential candidate, will speak at the weekly House GOP Theme Team meeting on Thursday morning.
- NRI and Gustavo Head Upstate (Bronx News Network) the anti-Pedro Espada group
- Political Group Launches Anti-Espada Campaign; Gets Behind Rivera (by Jeanmarie Evelly, Norwood News.org - Published by the Mosholu Preservation Corporation)
- Freedom Party Fills a Void in Governor's Race (By Ginger Geoffery, WKBW Channel 7)
- Long’s And Long Island’s Hold On Conservative Party In Play As Conservatives Nominate Paladino (By Andrew J. Hawkins, City Hall News)
- W.H. scorecard: MSNBC up, bloggers down (By: Keach Hagey, Politico) Glenn Greenwald: “As we head into a November election that looks more and more like Democrats are going to get slaughtered, I think they are trying to set up a villain, someone to blame other than Obama,” he said. “And that villain will be the left.”
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