The National Rifle Association will rely on old-fashioned snail mail in a massive get-out-the-vote campaign ahead of next month’s election. The nation’s largest gun-rights group will send out a whopping four million voter cards to members in every state, The New York Times reported Monday. The cards will arrive inside NRA-sponsored publications and will list [...]
Calling it the “House surge strategy,” an alliance of Republican groups has launched a $50-million advertising campaign to help push GOP congressional candidates to victory in races where they have been out-raised and out-spent by Democrats. The ad offensive represents “the biggest spending blitz ever by such groups in a congressional election campaign,” The Wall [...]
When Marco Rubio embarked on his campaign for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Florida, he had very little public support among Republican power brokers, who overwhelmingly backed Charlie Crist, Florida governor and odds-on favorite at the time. Enter Jim DeMint. The junior Republican senator from South Carolina, who has developed a [...]
Sarah Palin raised a hefty $1.2 million over the summer and also spent about a million, paying consultants for advice on finance, international affairs and media, and also contributing to favored candidates in the midterm elections. It was Palin’s strongest three months of fundraising since her resignation as Alaska’s governor in July 2009, Politico reported. [...]
Colorado Senate Candidates Face Off Over Negative Ads, Social Security DENVER — Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and his Republican opponent, Ken Buck, sparred Monday over the economy, tax cuts, the deficit and health care at the first of three debates this week. Monday’s event, sponsored by 9News and The Denver Post, will be followed [...]
Jill Lawrence makes a fascinating point in her column today, writing that “Pat Toomey — the diehard conservative who drove Arlen Specter out of the Republican Party — seems almost middle of the road compared with his fellow Republican Senate nominees.” If her theory is true — and I believe it is — then it [...]
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