Received this e-mail on Friday from Slate Magazine’s The Surge where they rank these seven U.S. Senate races to watch: 1. Maine Putting this race in the top slot feels a bit like cheating. Sure, there was a Quinnipiac poll this week that showed GOP Sen. Susan Collins trailing her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, by 12 percentage…
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TX-Sen: MJ Hegar (D) Talks With Elle Magazine How Son Convinced Her To Run Against John Cornyn (R)
Elle Magazine has a great profile piece out about U.S. Senate MJ Hegar (D. TX). She talks about how after very narrowly losing a very red congressional district in 2018, she decided to move on from politics and not for office again. But all that changed after having a discussion with her four-year-old son: Fast…
Slate Magazine's The Surge Lists These 7 Battleground States Joe Biden Should Keep His Eye On
Received this e-mail today from Slate Magazine’s The Surge that re-evaluates the top seven swing states the Biden-Harris ticket should keep an eye onn: 1. Florida Pipe down, Pennsylvania. Sit on it, Wisconsin. Go suck an egg, Michigan! When it comes to election anxiety production, Florida, the Terror State, has retaken the crown. We’d like…
ME-Sen: Slate Magazine, “How Maine Turned on Susan Collins (R)”
Slate Magazine has a new piece out about the upcoming U.S. Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. ME) and Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D. ME): Six years ago, Karin Leuthy, a registered Democrat, voted for Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Like many Mainers, Leuthy, 48, took pride in not voting a straight…
Slate Magazine's The Surge Ranks These 7 Battleground States Joe Biden Should Prioritize
Received Slate Magazine’s weekly e-mail letter, The Surge, today. Every few weeks they will change up their battleground state rankings for the 2020 Election. Below are the seven states that are tipping towards Joe Biden and deserve the most attention: 1. Texas There has been some recent discourse about whether Texas, while trending bluer, qualifies as a “swing…
New York Magazine, “Biden’s Surge Could Flip the Senate — and Boost His Presidency”
Ed Kilgore at New York Magazine nails it: Savvy Democrats generally understand that if Joe Biden wants to get anything done as president, Democrats need to take the Senate. If Republicans maintain control, Mitch McConnell stands waiting like a bridge troll to obstruct anything a new administration or its House allies might try to accomplish….
KY, CO, MT, IA, KS, AZ & AL-Sen: Slate Magazine's The Surge Highlights These 7 Races To Watch
Received this e-mail today from Slate Magazine’s The Slurge that highlights seven U.S. Senate races to keep your eye one: 1. Kentucky The national Democratic establishment gets its way in Senate primaries. It’s a rule. Democratic primary voters aren’t like Republicans. When Republican voters hear that Mitch McConnell has recruited some well-credentialed haircut, they think, Screw…
Slate Magazine's The Surge Lists These 7 States That Could Be The Path For Joe Biden's Victory
Received an e-mail update from Slate Magazine’s The Surge and they have released the top seven states that are now the most competitive for Joe Biden to reach electoral victory. Here they are: 1. Arizona The GOP is getting so desperate that it might voluntarily spend time there in August. The very afternoon of our…
New York Magazine, “Joe Biden Is Planning An FDR-Size Presidency”
New York Magazine has a must-read piece out right now: When fourth-term senator Joe Biden built his Wilmington, Delaware, home in 1996, he had no plans to turn it into a backup office, let alone a presidential-campaign isolation bunker from which to plan a crisis presidency an order of magnitude more expansive than anything in the past half-century. Now,…
AK-Sen: Forward Magazine Says To Keep Your Eye Out On This Grizzly Slayer's Campaign
The progressive Jewish magazine, Forward, has a piece that profiles eight Jewish candidates running for Congress. Four of the candidates profiled are Democrats, including U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Matt Lieberman (D. GA). The other Democrats mentioned are Sara Jacobs (D. CA-53) and Kathy Manning (D. NC-06). Three of the candidates profiled…
Slate Magazine's The Surge Has Joe Biden Beating Trump In 6 Out Of These 7 Swing States
If Slate Magazine is starting to tracking polling on. who’s leading in key swing states: For the past few weeks, as everyone’s attention has turned from the election to the virus, we’ve been trying out different things to rank. Governors, world leaders, stuff like that. But this week, we get back to the election—the general…
Will Trump be hanging copies of this fake “Time magazine cover” at his golf resorts
In the tradition of Trump putting fake Time magazine covers of his face in his golf resorts, his campaign decided to indulge their propaganda jones. Trump also tried to bully Thunberg in a tweet today. President Trump's reelection campaign on Thursday tweeted an edited cover of Time magazine's “Person of the Year” issue that depicted…
Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine Sums Up The Last 24 Hours Nicely.
I’m sure most of you have seen the clip from last night’s car wreck of a Laura Ingraham show where she and her all star panel of a torture advocate and alleged child rapist smeared today’s witness in the impeachment hearings, Lt. Colonel Alexander S. Vindman. If not: The torture enabler was right in there gaslighting with…
