American Spectator,
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David Catron
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11/2/2022 2:00:15 AM
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Unless you have obsessively followed the midterm tracking polls in an effort to divine which party will control a majority in the U.S. Senate next year, you have probably never heard of the following people: Erik Gerhardt, Jeremy Kauffman, Chase Oliver, Neil Scott, and Marc Victor. Yet, because all are Libertarian Senate candidates in states where the major party nominees are statistically tied, each has the potential to save a faltering Democrat. Nowhere is that more true than in Georgia.
Daily Wire,
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Joseph Curl
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11/1/2022 2:45:21 PM
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Usually, the final month of a midterm election is a hectic one for the president of the United States.
Barack Obama, for instance, made 22 campaign-related trips in October 2010 in a futile effort to stem losses in his first midterm election — Democrats lost 63 House seats and control of the chamber.President Joe Biden, in comparison, made just eight last month and has little on his schedule for the final week of campaigning. The problem: Next to nobody wants Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on stage with them.
“Of the 14 states with some of the most competitive Senate and governor races,
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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11/1/2022 2:21:22 PM
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Look past the topline number on this latest — and presumably final — generic ballot poll from the Wall Street Journal, which may not look terribly spectacular at the moment. An R+2 barely even pops in this field, coming in under the RCP average lead of 2.8 points for the GOP.Keep two other points in mind. Who’s leading in enthusiasm? And what do respondents think about the direction of the country and economy? That, and one other related issue, makes this a fairly significant entry into the midterm red-wave sweepstakes:
Voters are giving Republicans a late boost in support just ahead of the midterm elections, as pessimism about the economy
American Spectator,
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David Catron
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10/28/2022 3:23:56 AM
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Benjamin Franklin was a man of great wisdom, but he was mistaken when he opined that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Equally inevitable is the biennial Democratic attempt to frighten elderly voters by claiming the Republicans are plotting to destroy Social Security and Medicare. This year the Democrats are particularly desperate. Thus, they have been flogging this shopworn conspiracy theory even more frantically than usual as Nov. 8 draws nigh.
New York Post,
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John Podhoretz
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10/26/2022 1:37:04 PM
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Eleven years ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry destroyed his bid for the presidency when he said in a debate that he had three examples of something and then could only remember two.
That’s all it took — and rightly so. Debates afford voters a rare chance to see politicians under pressure having to think on their feet and respond to unexpected events.
I’ve never seen anything like the Pennsylvania Senate debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz on Tuesday night, and I hope never to have to see anything like it ever again. It was horrible. I didn’t think I would ever experience a moment as painful
Commentary,
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Noah Rothman
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10/26/2022 1:31:45 PM
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It seemed like Kevin McCarthy had thrown Democrats a lifeline. When the likely future Speaker of the House absentmindedly mused about his conference’s willingness to cut off America’s support for Ukraine’s war effort, Democrats were quick to leverage his disparagement of this popular initiative for all it was worth. But just as Democrats like President Joe Biden began to retail this new line of attack against the GOP, progressives swooped in to pull the rug out from under their own party. Again.
In an inexplicably bizarre episode on Monday, 30 House progressives sent a co-signed letter to the White House urging Joe Biden to seek a negotiated settlement with
Post Millenial [Canada],
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Hannah Nightingale
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10/25/2022 12:54:01 PM
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A new undercover video from Project Veritas featuring Becky Hobbs, the twin sister of Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, has revealed that the Democrat party gave money to what they classified as "extreme" Republican campaigns in an effort to win the vote. "So, all across the country Democrat candidates, not candidates themselves, but the party, was putting money in primaries, into the races of extreme Trump-endorsed candidates, as opposed to the moderate Republicans that were running, because they wanted those extremists to win because they knew that the Dems had a better chance of winning their races against the extremist candidates than they did against the moderate Republicans," CORRECTION*
Hot Air,
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Karen Townsend
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10/25/2022 12:38:38 PM
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The first and only debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz is happening Tuesday. Fetterman, a Democrat and the current Pennsylvania Lt. Governor, and Dr. Oz, his Republican challenger, will face off without a live audience. In an unusual twist, the Fetterman campaign is lowering expectations before the debates happens.Fetterman, once expected to trounce Oz in the race to be Pennsylvania’s next senator, now runs as though he is the underdog. Since he suffered a serious stroke, his ability to serve in the Senate has been called into question. All polls still show Fetterman ahead of Oz, though only just barely.
Washington Free Beacon,
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Andrew Kerr
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10/24/2022 1:42:20 PM
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Few corporate landlords sought to evict more residents in 2021 than the company Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D., Ga.) church partnered with to manage its low-income apartment building.
Columbia Residential manages 49 apartments in the Atlanta area, including Columbia Tower at MLK Village, a low-income apartment building owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as senior pastor. Out of 1,587 corporate landlords across the country, only 30 filed more eviction lawsuits in 2021 than Columbia Residential, records show. The property management company filed 605 eviction actions against its residents in 2021, according to a dataset cited by House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis chairman Rep. James Clyburn (D., Ga.).
Washington Free Beacon,
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Alana Goodman
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10/24/2022 1:33:43 PM
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A flood of negative advertising against both candidates in Georgia appears to be hurting Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D.) image more than Republican challenger Herschel Walker's in the final weeks of the election, according to an internal Walker campaign poll obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
While the internal polling shows a tight race, consistent with independent surveys showing the race within the margin of error, Walker's pollster says the surveys show that criticism of Warnock is starting to take a toll on his favorability rating in the run-up to Election Day.Warnock's favorability rating has dipped to 40 percent, a 5-point decrease since the campaign's previous poll
American Spectator,
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David Catron
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10/24/2022 2:56:14 AM
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November is almost upon us, and the consensus among credible election analysts is that any momentum the Democrats enjoyed this summer has evaporated. Despite implausible claims about the ephemeral “Dobbs effect,” the election was always destined to be about inflation, crime, immigration, and President Joe Biden’s job performance — all issues that favor Republicans. Yet the Democrats and the corporate media continue to engage in magical thinking about the midterms.
Hot Air,
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Karen Townsend
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10/20/2022 1:41:55 PM
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Republican candidate Herschel Walker is making the most of a criticism from his opponent, Democrat incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock. Warnock made the mistake of mocking Walker for being in possession of what he called “fake” police badges during a debate. Walker quickly whipped one out and proudly held it up to the audience. As it turns out, the so-called fake badges are honorary badges presented to Walker by sheriffs throughout the state.In response to the political attack from Warnock, the Walker campaign ordered 1,000 imitation plastic law enforcement badges that say “I’m with Herschel”. The campaign has turned the badges into a fundraising tool.