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New Gabby Giffords ad (AZ-8)

I like this low production one:

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This is what is around Tucson

Sorry Ohio.

The elected Senators with the lowest numbers are George Voinovich at 22%, and Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln at 27%. Not a coincidence none of those folks will be back for the next Congress and it’s just too bad for Democrats Voinovich didn’t run again (although he may have had primary issues if he had just like Specter and Lincoln did.)

Hard to be a moderate in your party, eh, George?

Couple more from PPP

Hickenlooper still up big
John Hickenlooper continues to hold a large lead in his quest to be Colorado’s next Governor, polling at 47% to 33% for Tom Tancredo and 13% for Dan Maes. But there are at least a few small rays of hope for Tancredo in the poll.

The fact that Republicans are winning this election without showing much appeal to moderates is another reminder that the main reason for the pending GOP onslaught is the disengagement of Democratic voters. Conservatives will make up a much larger portion of the electorate this year than they did in 2008 and that’s put Republicans in a position to make big gains without even having to develop a message that’s appealing to the center.

Oh, poor Joe. Who will you go to work for now? What lobby?

Only 24% of voters in the state say they would vote to reelect Lieberman in 2012 to 66% who say they will vote to replace him. Majorities of Democrats (72%), independents (63%), and Republicans (61%) alike say it’s time to swap out Lieberman for someone new.

This one for k’es and my life givers, my angels
National Nurses United Jumps Into Nev. Race With Biggest Ever Union Campaign Expenditure

National Nurses United (NNU), the self-declared “RN Super Union,” today kicked off a major ad campaign against Nevada Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle.The $200,000 campaign is the largest ever expenditure on a political race by a single union…….
The centerpiece of the NNU’s campaign is a set of four 15-second television ads based on the theme of “Wrong Angle.” The ads highlight Angle’s extreme statements on healthcare, job creation, and education. The visuals push the angle metaphor: A ski jumper wipes out, a house slides off a cliff. These images are juxtaposed with clips of Angle calling for the privatization of Medicare and Social Security, opposing mandatory insurance coverage for pregnant women because “[she’s] not going to have any more babies,” or asserting that job creation is none of the government’s busines

Watch the commercials.

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“That was a different Sharron Angle, not me!”
Angle Introduced Legislation Expanding Coverage Mandate And Other ObamaCare-Like Provisions

Angle proposed no fewer than five laws that would have expanded state insurance mandates,

New polls from the DCCC

New polls from PPP are up.

I had an interesting “conversation” yesterday with some one who said he was going to vote straight Republican. I asked him if he wanted to do away with the VA (which he uses monthly and for his meds) and SS, Medicare and Medicaid? I added I would be dead if not for SS, medicaid and cancer research, would that be OK with him? He just shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
I know his family’s history. He was raised on SS and a Union pension. He would had been a young orphan if not for SS and Medicaid!
Death Panels for everyone but the rich!

Pick a candidate and see their stance on policy, what they have said on the policy and how they voted. Seems Christine has a whole bunch of “I don’t know” policy positions.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Christine_O%60Donnell.htm

An article on AZ-8 in southern AZ “profiles the beyond a bagger candidate Jessie Kelly, who is running against Gabby Giffords. Kelly in the primary did not get Simple S’arah’s blessing and beat her choice. This guy is a winger beyond words.

Gabrielle Giffords and Jesse Kelly make the play for CD 8 voters

Republican congressional candidate Jesse Kelly has a long list of grievances.

He’s had it with a tax system that takes from the rich to give to the poor. He’s sick of government workers who just “suck off the system.” He wants to scrap Medicare in order to get seniors “off the public dole.” He would “love to eliminate” Social Security. He’s looking for a “day of reckoning for liberals in both parties,” because “liberalism is destroying America.”….
Kelly opposes abortions even for women who have been the victims of rape or incest. He doesn’t believe gays could serve openly in the military without destroying morale. He believes Wall Street needs less regulation, not more. He’s outraged that the Obama administration engaged in a “shakedown” to require oil giant BP to set aside $20 billion to aid victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He’s called for every federal department, with the exception of the military, to be cut by at least 20 percent

This speech from Madison, Wisconsin didn’t get much coverage. It is a barn-burner.