At 11 a.m. today, Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, DNC Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democratic members held a press conference to introduce what they call the “Republican-Tea Party Contract on America.” According to DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan, these Democratic leaders, “will present the American people a handy 10-point blueprint [...]

Should we assume that Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum knows he had to buy the rights for both the song and the video from Rick Astley’s record company?

And even 19 percent approval seems high:
Casting a shadow over [GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg] Whitman’s campaign is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s continuing status as the least popular Governor in the country. 71 percent of voters in the state disapprove of the job he’s doing and only 19 percent give him good marks. Generally when you have [...]

Huffington Post:
The New York Times’ Brian Stelter tweeted that, according to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News has averaged just 29,000 black viewers in primetime so far this television season (9/09-7/10). That represents just 1.38% of its 2.102 million total viewer audience.
CNN and MSNBC, meanwhile, both have far more black viewers, both in absolute terms and [...]

Public Policy Polling:
[New Hampshire GOP senate candidate] Kelly Ayotte’s seen her appeal to moderate voters crumble in the wake of her endorsement by Sarah Palin and her lead over Paul Hodes has shrunk to its lowest level of any public polling in 2010- she has a 45-42 advantage over him, down from 47-40 in an [...]

ne of the most nonsensical claims by opponents of gay marriage is that it is a threat to “traditional marriage,” by which they mean what their intellectual hero, Carrie Prejean, the disgraced former Miss California USA, referred to as “opposite marriage.”
For people who aren’t tuned into the debate, the canard that gay marriage threatens [...]

The law doesn’t require you to be a successful crook. It just requires you to be a crook.

— Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Niewoehner, quoted by the Chicago Tribune, making closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

This is old bad news at a new bad time.

–Michael Clarke, director of the U.K. Royal United Services Institute think-tank, discussing the material posted on Wikileaks concerning anti-Taliban efforts in Afghanistan

Life’s made up of valleys and peaks,
When it’s the TRUTH for which one seeks.
But when it comes to the war
Search blindly no more —
Just navigate over to Wikileaks.

a href=”http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/07/26/128775898/tancredo-joins-colorado-governor-race-as-third-party-candidate?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw”>Ken Rudin:
You should get out of the race for governor, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) told Colorado Republicans Scott McInnis and Dan Maes last week, if polls show that you can’t beat Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper in the November election. And if you don’t, I’m going to run as a third-party candidate.
McInnis and [...]