Archive for May, 2006
…This kind of lovin’ in jail, Tom.
May 31, 2006 by Matthew Slutsky in
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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) kicked off her campaign in front of 700 people at New York’s Democratic state convention.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her bid for a second Senate term Wednesday, telling supporters to get ready for a Democratic sweep in November.
“When the dust clears in November, New York is going to have a Democratic government from top to bottom, and we’re going to show the rest of the country what that means,” Clinton said to the nearly 700 people at New York’s Democratic state convention.
Hillary’s re-election website.
May 31, 2006 by Peter Slutsky in
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according to the Associated Press. “U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday.”
May 31, 2006 at 2:52 PM | No Comments »
While Radical Rick will probably blame his low polling numbers on ‘the gays’ or ‘working mothers’ - we here at DoubleSpeak blame it on the fact that Sen. Rick Santorum is out of the mainstream of American politics and he will lose his election to the next great Senator from Pennsylvania, Bob Casey Jr.
Say what you will about Bob Casey, he is now officially the Democratic nominee and I believe he has this fight in him. He understands the stakes of what a Santroum re-election would look like and I hope the whole country will soon get behind his candidacy.
He is up on the airwaves with a new commercial and he has a new website that looks really good.
In a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, Casey is leading Santorum 56% to 33% - That’s 23%. Give ‘em hell, Bobby!
May 31, 2006 by Peter Slutsky in
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It is impossible to talk about the 2006 election cycle and the Democrats’ chances without including in the discussion the campaign of Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee.
If the pendulum swings and things really do happen for the D’s in 2006, then a state like Tennessee will be within our reach. Regardless, if we can stay competitive and give the resources to this critical race then many believe it will be a bellwether for good things to come. From the NYTimes:
“Tennessee could very well make or break whether we take back the Senate,” Mr. Schumer said.
Tennessee Republicans say they are confident their state will hold the line against what they call just another liberal. “He’s a media darling, he’s charismatic, all of the above, but at the end of the day, the guy doesn’t vote right,” said Bob Davis Jr., chairman of the State Republican Party.
Brad Todd, a consultant to former Representative Van Hilleary, a Republican contender for the Senate, said: “This is a federal race, and Tennessee elects bona fide conservatives to federal office. Even when Al Gore first ran for the Senate, he ran as a pro-life, pro-gun conservative. And Harold Ford is not that.”
Before Republicans can mount a full-scale campaign against Mr. Ford, they have a fiercely competitive primary to settle. Three major candidates are vying for the nomination in the Aug. 3 primary: Mr. Hilleary, former Representative Ed Bryant and Bob Corker, a former mayor of Chattanooga. Mr. Bryant and Mr. Corker have run for the Senate before and were defeated in Republican primaries. Much of the debate so far has revolved around who is the true conservative in the race.
One reason for Democratic optimism here is the possibility of a wounded Republican nominee emerging from a bitter (and relatively late) primary. Mr. Ford’s major opponent in the Democrat primary withdrew recently, giving him the luxury of running a general election campaign — raising money and running advertising, most recently on the price of gasoline.
Get involved in this race. Visit Rep. Ford’s website and give give give today!
May 31, 2006 by Matthew Slutsky in
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