While much attention is focused on the federal elections, a more profound change might be underway in state legislatures across the country.
Controlling the statehouses is important for two reasons. One, that’s where the future leaders of both parties cut their teeth. Being in control means being able to point to a track record of legislative [...]

Paul Silver thinks so and thinks the centrist movement is upon us.
I have to say the idea of Bloomberg seems intriguing. After all, he’s a RINO and has definitely kept NYC happy post Giuliani.
Hrmmm…
UPDATE:
Sorry folks, my goof on the title.

His question: will it really matter if Dems take control?
The answer lies in our nation’s history.
A must read.

And please, for everybody’s sake, just shut up.
From Captain Ed come a few sage questions…
Will Ned Lamont repudiate Kerry’s words? Will Bob Casey, Jr dispute his mentor’s characterization of our military as a junkyard for goldbricking idiots? Will Benjamin Cardin affirm that soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines don’t have what it takes to succeed in [...]

It’s the money stupid…
From the Wash Post:
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world’s annual gross domestic product, according to a report issued yesterday by [...]

State leaders have harsh words for the national Dems, and it could have the potential to swing the race:
A coalition of black Democratic political leaders from Prince George’s County led by former county executive Wayne K. Curry endorsed Republican Michael S. Steele’s bid for the U.S. Senate yesterday.
The support from Curry, five County Council members [...]

I don’t really think so, but after what happened to my family this weekend, I’m beginning to wonder.

Good Will Hinton launched recently and I dig it. The centro-blogosphere is growing…good news for us all.
Do you have any new favorite blogs?

I just went surfing over to the Unity 08 site, as I do from time to time, and I found this:
The FEC, the very agency that oversees a system that allows obscene amounts of special interest money to flow in favor of the two major parties, ruled to place strict limits on the money Unity08 [...]

I had heard the name before on a few, right-wing blogs, and they all basically had an issue with photographers taking pictures of what the enemy was doing instead of stopping the acts they were perpetrating. One blogger even went so far as to call for Hussein’s death. …
A little more background…Hussein worked for the [...]

All the New Jersey court upheld was that same sex couples should have the same legal rights as everybody else. That’s it. They did not mandate marriage. And yet the GOPers were very happy that the issue got brought back up again. Why, even Bush said about the decision, “Yesterday in New Jersey, we had [...]

Apparently, Republicans are waking up with a bad hangover from their “absolute power” bender and discovering that (shocker!) they don’t like Bush. Why? Because he’s not really a conservative.
From Noonan comes a requiem for a lame duck…
This is two weeks ago, from a Bush appointee: “I hope they lose the House.” And one week ago, [...]

I was right. The New Jersey decision has lit a fire under the GOP.
From NY Times:
Wednesday’s ruling, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, had immediate ripple effects, especially in Senate races in some of the eight states [...]

Courtesy of testing.com.

In The Washington Times, Barry Casselman throws cool water on the current Obama blaze, coins a neat twist on the “first _____ president” meme, and makes an intriguing suggestion:
Mr. Obama was elected to the Senate only two years ago. He has no executive experience. The office in question is the presidency, arguably the toughest job [...]

…ever?
And it’s in Kansas. Who knew?

New polls show that the ad had an impact…
Among all respondents, support for stem cell research increased from 78% prior to viewing the ad, to 83% after viewing the ad. Support among Democrats increased from 89% to 93%, support among Republicans increased from 66% to 68% and support among Independents increased from 80% to 87% [...]

And guess who smokes?
Barack Obama.
As the scrutiny of every little detai about the junior senator from Illinois begins, Michael Currie Schaffer writes in The New Republic that Obama’s nicotine habit could furnish a welcome populist touch in a party infamous for upscale, Whole(Foods)ier-Than-Thou elitism:
[A]mong the healthy living smart-set types who represent the elite of both [...]

Yesterday I laid out how the Democrats could still lose the upcoming election. But, let’s be honest, the Republicans are the more likely losers, sure to lose seats and in danger of losing one if not both houses of Congress.
So, if they lose, what will be the reason? Unlike the Democrats’ medley of unfocused vision, [...]

You’ve gotta hand it to Cheney. He certainly knows how to turn a phrase.
From a recent interview:
WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a sensation of drowning.
Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t regard water-boarding as [...]