Sherrod Brown wins according to AP. Sweet.
Elizabeth Warren wins. Sweet.
Richard Mourdock loses. Sweet.
Todd Akins loses. Sweet.
Barack Obama wins. Sweet.

A couple of developments in political advertising that may or may not be unique to Ohio:  in an interesting reversal from the norm, Democratic candidates are attacking Republican incumbents for raising taxes; and in what is perhaps a response to the impending sense of doom for the GOP, ads for Republican candidates are neglecting to mention their ( Read more... )

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Well, the election groundhogs in Texas and Ohio stuck their heads out yesterday and saw their shadows, so we'll have a couple more months of political winter.  HIllary Clinton won those primaries (though Texas's caucus results have not come in, which might push Barack Obama over the top in that state, delegate-wise).  Though I voted for Obama, this ( Read more... )

Well, the polls have closed for the
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It has been too long.  It's time to get all political up in this hizzouse.  I've been too distracted by other stuff and too uninformed about the candidates to get wrapped up in the primary season, unfortunately, but you all can help change that by coming to our place on February 5 to watch the Super Tuesday primary returns come in.  Twenty-four ( Read more... )

Oh, this just keeps getting better and better.

First President Bush and the GOP lost a majority of governorships, their majority in the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate (come on, Webb and Tester!).  Then Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista guerrilla leader who President Ronald Reagan and Oliver North hated so much that they came up with ( Read more... )

'Tis primary election day in the Buckeye State, and I did my best to perform my civic duty. I tried to vote. I really did. I was even going to ask for the Republican ballot just so I could vote for Ken Blackwell's (the gay-bashing, in-your-face pro-life gubernatorial candidate whose nauseating campaign commercials have been the bane of my life ( Read more... )