Climate Brief: Record-breaking heat blisters the high plains with triple-digit temperatures.

Yet, another heat dome has settled over the United States and Canada, this time in the region that grows our cereals. Temperature records were smashed in North Dakota. The state … Read More

VA-Gov: GOP's Leading Candidate For Governor Says Derek Chauvin Verdict Makes Her “Sick”

Friendly reminder, there’s a big Governor’s race in Virginia this year: Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase is no stranger to making provocative statements, and comments she made this week … Read More

NC-Sen: Disgraced Bathroom Bill Ex-Gov Jumps Into Senate GOP Primary

Some big news today out of North Carolina: Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s career in politics is not over. McCrory, a Republican who served one term as the state’s … Read More

Remember that Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary can address some of the Trump sweetheart deals

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen will be nominated as Treasury Secretary. Remember that Trump though Mnuchin lifted some Russian sanctions during the Mueller investigation on one Russian oligarch in particular, … Read More

CO-Sen: New Poll Has John Hickenlooper (D) Beating Cory Gardner (R) 53-42, Biden Beating Trump 53-41

Here’s the latest news today out of Colorado: A new poll conducted just days before the 2020 election shows Democrats Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper are poised for double-digit victories … Read More

KS-Sen: NYT/Siena Poll Confirms A Toss Up Race Between Barbara Bollier (D) & Roger Marshall (R)

Here’s the latest news today out of Kansas courtesy of the New York Times/Siena College latest poll: President Trump, who won Kansas by more than 20 percentage points four years … Read More

TX-Sen: Morning Consult Confirms A Tightening Race Between MJ Hegar (D) & John Cornyn (R)

Here’s the latest news today out of Texas courtesy of Morning Consult’s latest poll: In Texas, GOP Sen. John Cornyn still leads Democrat MJ Hegar, though the senior senator’s edge … Read More

KS-Sen: PPP Has Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) Tied With Rep. Roger Marshall (R) 43-43

Here’s the latest news today out of Kansas courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: x NEW POLL: 45% of Kanas voters say they’re less likely to vote for @RogerMarshallMD due to … Read More

GA-Sen B: HuffPost, “Matt Lieberman (D) Hosted Fundraiser For Lindsey Graham (R. SC) In 2013”

Since today is a heavy Lindsey Graham (R. SC) news day on Daily Kos, I figured it was important to highlight this from The Huffington Post: Democrat Matt Lieberman hosted … Read More

AZ-Sen: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D), “Martha McSally (R) will say anything to get elected”

U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D. AZ) is featured in Mark Kelly’s (D. AZ) newest campaign ad to remind Arizona voters how awful Martha McSally (R. AZ) truly is: x YouTube … Read More

VA-Sen: VCU Poll Has Sen. Mark Warner (D) Beating Daniel Gade (R) 55-38, Biden Beating Trump 53-39

Some good news today out of Virginia: x VIRGINIABiden 53% (+14)Trump 39%.#VAsen:Warner (D-inc) 55% (+17)Gade (R) 38%@VCU, 8/28-9/7https://t.co/zeTrMz37eC— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) September 15, 2020 The latest indicator: the double-digit lead … Read More

TX-Sen: New Poll Has A Single Digit Race Between Cornyn (R) & Hegar (D), Biden Beats Trump 48-45

Some big news out of Texas today: x 🚨TEXAS POLL🚨 w/ @JoltInitiative, @MOVE_texas, @texrising Biden: 48% (+3)Trump: 45% Hegar: 40%Cornyn: 46% (+6) Majority of voters (66%) more likely to support … Read More

F&M College Poll Has Joe Biden Beating Trump In Pennsylvania 49-42

Here’s the latest news out of Pennsylvania: Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll being released Thursday, with voters … Read More

ABC News: Another A+ Pollster Gives Biden a Double-Digit National Lead

An ABC News/Washington Post Poll shows Joe Biden leading Trump nationally by 10% or better. Biden leads Trump by 54% to 44% among likely voters and leads by 53% to 41% … Read More

Biden Expands Lead to 11% in Top Rated Marist Poll; Cook Report Shifts Ratings on 15 US House Races

The Marist Poll shows Joe Biden has a 53% to 42% national lead over Trump, the largest lead ever for this poll. Marist is rated as an A+ poll by … Read More

AZ-Sen: McSally (R), “GOP would never get the Senate back if D.C. and Puerto Rico were states”

I have no problem with that: It's the most expensive race in Arizona history — already. For the Senate seat held by GOP for 50 years, from Goldwater to McCain, … Read More

AZ-Sen: New OH Predictive Insights Poll Has Mark Kelly (D) Leading Martha McSally (R) 48-43

Here’s the latest news today out of Arizona: A poll released Tuesday found that U.S. Sen. Martha McSally’s support has remained the same, but she has still cut into Democrat … Read More

Blue Texas PAC Launches To Help Joe Biden Flip Texas Blue

From The Houston Chronicle: For years, the same question has been asked: When will the new Texas emerge? The answer? Right now. Join @BlueTexasPAC as we work to secure Texas’ … Read More

Cook Report Moves 2 US House Races to Tossup, AZ CD-6 and MO CD-2

twitter.com/… Cook Political Report has changed its ratings on five US House races, four in the direction of the Democratic candidate. Kansas CD-2 became more likely to remain Republican after … Read More

Biden Takes 13% Lead in Florida, According to Quinnipiac Poll

poll.qu.edu/… The Quinnipiac University Poll has just released a survey showing Joe Biden leading Trump by 51% to 38% in Florida, one of the largest swing states. The last time Quinnipiac … Read More

Quinnipiac: Biden Has 13% Lead in Florida; Fox Poll: Biden Has Major Leads in PA, MI, and MN

poll.qu.edu/… The Quinnipiac University Poll has just released a survey showing Joe Biden leading Trump by 51% to 38% in Florida, one of the largest swing states. The last time Quinnipiac … Read More

COVID presser: Trump pimps for free television coverage with the same shtick starting Tuesday

So the return of the daily presser can be blamed on Lindsey Graham. The pretense will be the coronovirus. Deja vu all over again. However, since Trump might not appear with … Read More

Trump on school supplies: “We don't need 57 pencils for every kid. You can have two.”

Trump apparently believes that science should not stand in the way of full schools, because his truism is that the economy must turn around for him to be reelected. Also … Read More

Brad Parscale out as Trump campaign manager (Remember the Manafort!)

Today in disinformation: the plan continues to be no plan, increasing our information search-costs. The best example of that is removing as campaign manager, Brad Parscale, the real manipulator of … Read More

Politico, “Joe Biden signals openness to eliminating Senate filibuster”

From Politico: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday signaled he would be open to the Senate ending its practice of imposing a 60-vote threshold for most legislation, a positional … Read More

AK-Sen: PPP Confirms Another Close Senate Race & A 3 Point Race Between Trump & Biden

Some very encouraging news today out of Alaska courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: x Election Twitter’s crowdfunded Alaska poll results@ppppolls / Election Twitter (7/7-7/8)MoE +/- 3.0% ________ AK-SEN Sullivan  39% … Read More

Biden is Running the Right Campaign

There have been a lot of diaries here, and a lot of moaning among the punditocracy, about how Biden should be doing this, or how he needs to do that, … Read More

State Poll Summary: Is Trump's Base Starting to Crack?

The New York Times reports that the Trump campaign is deeply worried about their candidate’s internal polls, and if they are anything like the publicly available polls, one can see … Read More

NC-Sen: PPP Has Cal Cunningham (D) Beating Thom Tillis 43-41, Biden Beating Trump 49-45

Here’s the latest news out of North Carolina courtesy of Public Policy Polling’s latest poll: PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds that Joe Biden leads Donald Trump 49-45, the largest … Read More

NC-Sen: NYT, “Money Pours Into North Carolina as Battle for U.S. Senate Heats Up”

The New York Times has a good piece out about how heated and expensive the North Carolina U.S. Senate race is becoming: Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis is used to … Read More

IA-Sen: Sen. Joni Ernst (R), “Trump Is Handling Coronavirus Pandemic Quite Well”

Oh really? When asked how President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic might impact her reelection race, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst was confident his response to the public health … Read More

Polls, Damned Polls, and Probabilities because Trump's negging us with strange polling

What is wrong with these polls? Is Trump disinforming himself to make himself feel better (by reading Breitbart). Is Trump negging us by using an old poll right after doing … Read More

Roanoke College Poll Has Joe Biden Destroying Trump In Virginia 51-39

Let’s close out the day with some very good news out of Virginia: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over President Trump in Virginia, according to a new poll from Roanoke College released … Read More

SC-Sen: The Hill, “Graham's (R) embrace of Trump fuels competitive fight in South Carolina”

The Hill had a piece this week that goes into how U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R. SC) full embrace of Trump might be putting his re-election bid in danger: Graham’s … Read More

15 today. She is such an advocate and please wish her a birthday wish. I wanted it to be special.

I wanted to do something special for Sierra.  She is our baby girl, the only  one left at home of the grandkids we adopted.   I have been Mama since she … Read More

Daily Kos interview: Attorney, Navy vet Pam Keith is a contender to flip House seat in South Florida

Pam Keith entered her first-ever race as a Florida candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016. She was green back then but even so, the Miami Herald endorsed Keith, noting that “This long-shot candidate … Read More

MI-Sen: New Quinnipiac Poll Has Sen. Gary Peters (D) Beating John James (R) 45-39

Here’s the latest news out of Michigan today courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: MICHIGAN SENATE RACE In the Michigan Senate race, incumbent Democrat Gary Peters leads Republican John James, … Read More

NC-Sen: New PPP Poll Has Cal Cunningham (D) Leading In The Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate

Here’s the latest news out of North Carolina courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: In the Democratic primary for US Senate Cal Cunningham now has a double digit lead with 22% … Read More

It's still early for time to be running out

There have been some challenges for the Harris campaign, including some being framed by RW and MSM, with a recent staff shake-up. Some of us want the Harris campaign to … Read More

SC-Sen: DFA Keeps Up The Momentum For Jaime Harrison (D) To Defeat Leningrad Lindsey Graham (R)

Received this e-mail from Democracy for America in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: In the aftermath of last week, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of … Read More

MS-Gov: Mike Espy (D) Returns To Help Jim Hood (D) Become Governor Of Mississippi

Received this e-mail from former Congressman, Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Senate candidate, Mike Espy (D. MS), in support of Attorney General Jim Hood’s (D. MS) campaign This November, Mississippians … Read More

More Numbers Leak from Embarrassing Trump Internal Poll; Trump Fires Pollsters

http://www.nbcnews.com/… More state numbers have leaked from the Republican internal poll that showed Donald Trump losing in nearly all swing states, several by very large margins. The Poll was taken March … Read More

Michigan Poll has Biden Beating Trump 52% to 41%

http://www.freep.com/… An Epic-MRA poll of Michigan voters released today shows Donald Trump trailing in the key battleground state of Michigan, a state he won by less than 1% in 2016. Biden … Read More

Trump campaign's internal polling leaked, and it's just as bad as you heard

ABC News has obtained the internal polling Donald Trump claimed was fake news (probably through the time-honored journalistic technique known as “wait for an insider who hates Trump to hand … Read More

Smoke Signals.

There were two things that I saw in the news this week that I felt were worth mentioning and commenting upon. One was a poll that had nothing to do … Read More

TX-Sen: NYT, “The Woman You Missed While You Were Paying Attention to Beto”

The New York Times has a great piece out from Mimi Swartz profiling Veteran, former Congressional candidate and current U.S. Senate candidate, MJ Hegar (D. TX). With Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) … Read More

Here's an actual photo the actual White House Twitter just shared of our actual FLOTUS

Caption this … I guess.  x Happy Birthday, @FLOTUS! pic.twitter.com/qwUwcod5LC — The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 26, 2019 Why is this the photo the official White House Twitter chose to congratulate … Read More

OK Demicratic Chairs. It's time to put up or shut up.

I have always enjoyed Michael Isikoff’s work as an investigative journalist. Not only does he uncover some really cool, nasty shit, but like his co-author David Corn, he has a … Read More

OK Democratic Chairs. It's time to put up or shut up.

I have always enjoyed Michael Isikoff’s work as an investigative journalist. Not only does he uncover some really cool, nasty shit, but like his co-author David Corn, he has a … Read More

The 2019 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” Year End Summary Report

Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy … Read More