In this morning’s Columbus Dispatch, an article (no online version available) reported on a TV advertisement opposing Deborah Pryce’s bid to be re-elected to the House of Representatives in Ohio’s 15th District. The ad points out that Rep. Pryce, in voting for H.R. 1 in 2003, acted to prohibit the government from negotiating with big [...]

Winning the title of Progressive Patriot requires grassroots support from actual voters, not behind-the-scenes maneuvering with insider political power brokers. Wetterling’s campaign has an impressive record of online activism, winning the support of John Edwards’s One America Committee in a similar contest earlier this summer.

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Every year down in Wausau, Florida, locals raise money by convincing gullible politicians that in order to win their elections, they have to come to their town and eat possum. They win extra points if they say that it doesn’t taste so bad.

“I think primaries are a waste of money.” — Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett, trying to engineer a challenger-free race. I can see why Robert Bennett is so uncomfortable with democracy. When Republican candidates have to spar with each other for a slot on a ballot, they can get pretty dog-gone nasty. In the [...]

One of the rewards for top vote-getting candidates is a fundraising email sent out the DCCCs big email list – and that email list is made bigger by the vote-getting competition. It’s all a bit circular, isn’t it?

In the wake of ethically-challenged Republican Bob Ney’s decision not to run for re-election to the House of Representativesl in Ohio’s 18th District, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett has explained that “I think primaries are a waste of money.” He’d much rather appoint Joy Padgett, a State Senator who won her office by accusing [...]

This whole New South thing is a load of garbage when it comes to Virginia Republicans. They’re still pulling the old racist bull. They’ll come up with any excuse to forgive the fact that Republican Senator George Allen called a man a monkey just because he wasn’t of European ancestry.

John Boehner left Central New York today on the defensive, and Ray Meier ended up with a lot of slick donations from big business fat cats, but a lot of questions about why he wants to break the promise that Bush made years ago that he would never raid the Social Security lock box.

There’s a great video circulating on YouTube of the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart reacting to congressional hearings on video games and the video game ratings system. My favorite portion of the clip: Republican Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska: “As a father of three young boys — 11, 8 and 6 — who are avid gamers, [...]