October 22, 2010

CA Gov: Reports Show Whitman Has Spent $163 Mil, Brown $25 Mil

October 22, 2010October 22, 2010 Jon Ponder

$163,000,000

Amount Republican billionaire Meg Whitman has spent on her campaign for governor of California, so far. By contrast, Democratic candidate Jerry Brown has spent $25 million. But money can’t buy you love, as the song said — Brown has led Whitman in every poll taken since Labor Day, at least, and Whitman’s favorability rating was under 40 percent in a recent Los Angeles Times poll.

Watch George W. Bush Stiltingly Read Ad Copy About His New ‘Book’ from a Teleprompter

October 22, 2010 Jon Ponder

It’s Not Easy Being Obama

October 22, 2010 Trish

Cute video in The Capitol Steps genre. Now can everyone just get off his back?

CA Sen: Human Rights Campaign Ad Spotlights Fiorina’s Ties to Virulently Anti-Gay Hate Group

October 22, 2010October 22, 2010 Jon Ponder

After Carly Fiorina won the California Republican primary in June, the anti-gay hate group National Organization for [Heterosexuals-Only] Marriage issued a news release taking credit for her win over socially moderate Tom Campbell:

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Juan Williams’ Song

October 22, 2010March 8, 2019 Buck Banks

I don’t like Muslims on my plane,
I don’t like Muslims, they’re all the same.
I don’t want Muslims at Ground Zero
And Bill O’Reilly is my hero.
I’m scared of Muslims, that’s what I say,
And I’ll get fired for $2 million any day.

Verbatim

October 22, 2010October 22, 2010 Buck Banks

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Day: October 22, 2010

CA Gov: Reports Show Whitman Has Spent $163 Mil, Brown $25 Mil

$163,000,000

Watch George W. Bush Stiltingly Read Ad Copy About His New ‘Book’ from a Teleprompter

It’s Not Easy Being Obama

CA Sen: Human Rights Campaign Ad Spotlights Fiorina’s Ties to Virulently Anti-Gay Hate Group

Juan Williams’ Song

Verbatim

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

— Former President George W. Bush, quoted by the Chicago Tribune.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”