This is no surprise. An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows whites without four-year college degrees preferring Republican candidates by twice the margin of the last two elections, when Democrats made significant gains in the House and Senate. I’m just sayin’…

Tim Walberg has finally agreed to a debate sponsored by the AARP bringing to four the total number of debates between him and Democratic incumbent Mark Schauer in Michigan’s 7th District. Walberg had been holding off on accepting the AARP’s debate invitation because he felt they were beholden to the Democratic Party, calling them a “Democratic organization.” Asked Thursday what […]

I have received four robocalls against Christine Green, the Democratic candidate for the 52nd state House district. The robocalls are from a woman who speaks without once saying where she’s from. She does not mention Mark Ouimet, Green’s GOP opponent. There are also literature pieces being mailed into the 52nd district. I have heard that these robocalls are happening in […]

The Mudflats blog revealed an email yesterday from Alaskan Senate hopeful and all around teabagger, Joe Miller. Turns out there’s a little trouble in paradise Alaska between Miller the Teabagger and Sarah Palin the Teabagger Annointer. Sarah promoted him (since he was the the teabagger candidate) and Joe Miller found a way to piss her off. The email in question […]

Last night, Rachel Maddow had actor Mark Ruffalo on last night to talk about fracking in New York and Pennsylvania. By now, you’ve surely seen the scene from “Gasland” where the guy lights his tap water on fire. This is due to fracking wells that pump chemicals and water into the bedrock shale to fracture it and release the natural […]

Dr. Rob Steele is running on the Republican Tea Party ticket against the Dean of the House, Congressman John Dingell. His campaign has been positively full of fail but today he reached a new level of fail and hypocrisy (or as I like to call it “GOPocrisy”.) He is having a “Second Amendment Rally” (Pig Roast, actually) and suggesting that […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. A Yahoo News Blog entry reports that the RNC is dialing back on its GOTV efforts due to a lack of funds. [T]he RNC has decided to end the long-standing practice of sending congressional staffers into hotly contested districts to make contacts with voters and assist the GOP’s midterm election efforts. A spokesman for the RNC […]

Yesterday

Oopsy: Two of gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder’s companies have been hit with liens for unpaid state taxes, one as recently as two months ago. Records show the state of California filed a $1,265 tax lien against Avalon Ventures LLC of Ann Arbor on Aug. 2, the day before Snyder won the Republican primary. The company’s 2010 annual report lists Snyder, […]

Good news today for Democratic incumbent Mark Schauer: JACKSON – Today Congressman Mark Schauer (D-MI) was endorsed by the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce over former Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI), whom the Chamber previously endorsed in 2008. The news follows an announcement yesterday from Next Alternative, Inc. (NAI), outlining its plans for a new battery assembly plant and up to […]

I was having a look at Tim Walberg’s website this morning, wondering if he had anything that discusses the Republicans’ recent rejection of a federal bill to reward companies that return jobs to the USA and to punish those that outsource them. I had a look at his jobs plan and, you won’t believe this, IT DOES NOT ACTUALLY MENTION […]