Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
Blumenthal holds 5 point lead over McMahon in Connecticut US Senate race
Interesting. The margin of error for this Rasmussen poll is 4 points, after surveying 750 likely voters in Connecticut the two days after the most recent – and last – McMahon vs. Blumenthal debate. Blumenthal 51 percent, McMahon 46 percent, while 4 percent are undecided or want someone else.
Read MoreRasmussen vs. Quinnipiac – Blumenthal vs. McMahon
Hold on here a second. Will someone in the media please take a look at the polling methodology between the Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls concerning the US Senate race in Connecticut? Why are the results so different?
Read MoreRasmussen Poll: Blumenthal loses 10 points to McMahon in two weeks
New poll from Rasmussen this morning. The poll was taken yesterday, but it’s not clear what time the poll started or completed. The poll included 500 likely voters in Connecticut, and had a margin of error of 4.5 percent. That means – as of this morning – it’s a dead heat between Blumenthal and McMahon.
Read MoreAlpert’s big whopper
Democratic Senatorial candidate Merrick Alpert is a smart man, Started a business from scratch, sold it, presumably made a bundle, cleaned up and helped sell off another. So he knows his numbers. With that in mind, during last night’s Democratic Senate Debate, how could he possibly make a statement like this. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REe6ifp41Uw On the other…
Read MoreFlorida US Senate race: Rubio on his way to raising $787k by Feb. 10
In an effort to raise campaign funds for his GOP primary run against Charlie Christ for the Florida US Senate seat, Marco Rubio racks up more than half of his $787,000 goal. The Stimulus Bomb campaign ends in three days. The Rubio campaign is looking for $1,000 in donations for every billion of the federal…
Read MoreSenate votes to increase debt ceiling $1.9 trillion – That’s 15%
More than a week ago, I told you about a Democrat proposal to increase the debt ceiling for the federal government by a whopping 15 percent from $12.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion dollars. The Senate just voted to go with the plan, and they voted exactly down party lines – 60 to 40.
Read MorePrediction – Brown beats Coakley in Massachusetts US Senate showdown
Personally, I’m not going to make a prediction as I’m assuming things can swing big-time this weekend. But, I was speaking with Jim on Wednesday night and he flat out told me Scott Brown was going to win in Massachusetts. Today, he asked me to post his prediction.
Read MoreHarold Ford Jr. – Carpetbagger and flip-flopper
There’s always one thing about politicians from Tennessee that I’ve never quite understood. The bigger the stage they play to, the further to the left the go.
Read MoreWhy the health care industry is behind Coakley in Massachusetts
Speculation everywhere concerning why health care insurance and pharmaceutical companies are tossing money at Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in support of her bid for Senate. When you’re a big company, you’ve got to play both sides.
Read MoreDodd: We Senators are kinda like war heroes.
Last week we posted Newt Gingrich’s speech where he called on Americans not to give up the fight to stop an out of control expanding government. Don’t tell me you’re tired, he said, not when Washington’s troops kept fighting in the snow, even when they had no shoes.
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