Glad to see NJ opened the door to Civil unions or gay marriage.  Not a complete win, but getting there.  We will see what the legislature does, although I bet they take the out they were given and follow in Vermont's footsteps.  

Either way, my feeling is the residency requirement in Mass will be gone by the end of 2008.

Despite the response ad to Michael J. Fox featuring Cardinal Pitcher Jeff Suppan, my gut tells me we are going to win Missouri i.e. Claire McCaskill. The minimum wage and stem cell referendums are gonna be net positives.

I don't understand the rational about the 50 googlebombs.

Why if a race was included in the list of potential races, why not list it for people to use?

I'm sure my race wasn't the only overlooked but it seems to me that we just wanted a nice, clean number '50' races to GoogleBomb and not another arbitrary number ala '61'.

I'm going through with my plan to GoogleBomb Sue Kelly in my NY-19 race but its sad that i have to go it alone.

-- MrMacMan

I think the new VoteVets ad just rocks.  Powerful.

Missouri, Tennesee, Virginia and Arizona senate races - Now taken, nothing is for granted, but with general consensus we'll take the house, shouldn't we put more focus on donating to these senate races?

I include Arizona on the off chance that early election returns from the East Coast encourage Dem voting/discourage GOP turnout.  Call it the Ace-in-the-hole philosophy.

Thoughts?  

It's great that Kerry and Kennedy pledged money. I really hope Hillary takes the initiative and writes a check too.  

I still believe in terms of the MA and NJ Senate races in 08 we should support the Congressman who donates the highest % of their money this year.  Personally I want Holt in NJ and as of now Frank in MA, but others are not out of the question yet, with the exception of Meehan of course, I won't support him unless he donates 2 million of his warchest within the next 3 days.

Kerry will be in PA Thursday to campaign with Pat Murphy (Bucks County Comm College).

Maybe I can say thanks!

Last night I asked if anyone knew whether the MN Dem delegation had given and how much to the DCCC. I still have not heard. Can someone help me out? Chris? I tried calling my Congressman, Martin Sabo, who is retiring but there was no answer in his Minneapolis or DC offices. He is retiring this year so I suspect the office may already be closed.

Did you guys hear Robert Siegel challenging Rove's view of the elections!!!

Awesome...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rove_d ukes_it_out_with_NPR_1025.html

The key for me was this

"And I think we saw this earlier this year in a blue state among blue voters and that's the Connecticut senatorial primary. There was only one issue: Iraq. Thirty-four of the states voters are Democrats eligible to participate in the primary. Forty percent of them turned out. Just over 7 percent of them voted to get out now, in a blue state."

"Lieberman went from being way behind to being narrowly behind on Election Day, because as the election got closer, people had to think about the consequences to America of winning or losing."

So Rove uses the August CT dem primary numbers as a model for November turn out!!! And then instead of noting that this was just about the biggest trunout for this election in history for dems, he some how says this was not enough. This is august man! Vacation time. If anything these numbers were huge. Joe got handed his ass.

And the kicker Rove is citing Joe's near loss as good news for republicans!! This shows two things. Rove is under unexpected pressure from Seigel and so he goes for his best news without thinking and its... JOE LIEBERMEN. This shows just how bad things are for republicans as well as just how far in bed Joe is with the administration.

If I were in Ned's campaign I would take this NPR radio clip and use it as a campaign add. Forget the kiss. Rove has just admited to the fact that Joe is his trojan horse!! Is that what Lieberman voters want for connecticut?

Rove just made the radio ad that will swing the election for Lamont. Joe is Rove's catspaw nothing more.

Paul Kanjorski's office (PA-11) were pretty rude about the whole thing

First the staffer complained she got "25 calls" today about it, I was polite, and just said I wanted my rep to get good press

she said he didn't need it because he wasn't running for a leadership position, hence he doesn't need to give anymore

Then about the "expanded field" she said "we're writing new checks but we aren't going to say publically how much"

i tried polite, i pushed back politely, in the end, it was clear: Kanjorski's office doesn't give a fuck, I recommend anyone in PA call Kanjorksi's office and complain about negative feedback you've gotten from members of his own district!

But this is a start. It pains me that they have to be shamed into giving. Tells you a lot about some of our so-called leaders.

Has anyone heard a thing from Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana? John Aravosis of AMERICAblog just labeled him the worst of the worst.

New poll in Oregon. Gov. Kulongoski (on most endangered list) up by 11 points, 47-36.

Kulongoski 47% and Saxton 36%. No traction for Saxton! It's Riley and Associates. I'm not a fan of them but I'll take it. Biggest move is with the Independents, moving to Kulongoski, and Saxton losing some of his base.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kg w_102506_news_gov_race_poll_.74398a9c.ht ml

Somebody get the clip of Limbaugh imitating Michael J fox up quick!!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archive s/010578.php

Has anyone called Stu Rothenberg? What kind of cash does he have lying around?

Has he searched his wall safes in Palm Beach and Napa Valley?

Here is what is on my mind: Sean Hannity is a coward. Dick Cheney is a coward. George Bush is a pee-his-pants coward. Can we hammer this point home? It was said well by someone: if you believe there is a war on terror then you are a coward.

mention of "Use it or Lose It" in both the Hartford Courant(a paragraph)and the New York Times today.