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Just thought I would start a daily thread of links to articles posted on FR as a clearinghouse showing the dinosaur medias attempt to shape this election and suppress GOP/conservative turnout. They are pulling out all the stops, for the dinosaur media knows if they lose this election, it's a steep downhill for them from there. I'll start of with a couple of threads. Disconnect with GOP finds it way to Texas(AP finds a democrat who calls himself a Republican)GOP fears Ohio democrats' strength a nationwide omen(unnamed sources of course)

Not so blue, according to Ken Mehlman. Speaking to a small group of center-right journalists at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator this morning, Mehlman said that if the election were held today Republicans would keep control of the Senate and probably the House as well. He acknowledged that this year's environment is "challenging" for three main reasons -- the three I focused on during the weekend: the six year itch ("a party in power collects barnacles)," the war in Iraq, and scandals in Congress. On the other hand, Mehlman believes that four factors will help his party avoid...

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, a hospital official said. He was 69. Christian Kiriakos, central administrator at the hospital, said Studds died between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. He did not have additional information, and details of Studds' death could not be immediately confirmed. Studds, a liberal Democrat who spent more than 20 years in Congress, was censured by the House in the 1980s for having sex with a 17-year-old male page. He was re-elected for several more terms. Last year...

In his second memoir in 11 years, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Sen. Barack Obama paints a picture of America as it is and as he believes it should be. Obama, 45, tackles faith, politics, values, race, opportunity and the United States' place in the global village in the 288-page tome from Crown Publishing Group scheduled to hit bookstore shelves Tuesday. The title of Obama's new book comes from the keynote address he delivered at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, in which he said the "audacity of hope" is "God's greatest gift to...

The advertisement, published on a full-page in major Jewish papers across the US, shows Senator Joe Lieberman hugging a voter during a campaign tour ahead of next month's Congressional elections. The headline reads: "Joe Lieberman was a voice of support for Israel. That voice has been silenced by the Democratic Party." The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), which ran this ad, is not standing up for now-independent Lieberman as much as it is trying to make a point - the Democrats aren't as good as the Republicans when it comes to Israel. Another ad makes this point event clearer: A large...

Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats -- shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush's second...

The Democratic Party remains the most popular political organization before next month’s congressional election in the United States, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News. 50 per cent of respondents would vote for the Democratic candidate in their district, while 41 per cent would support the Republican contender. Support for the Democrats increased by one point since September, while backing for the Republicans went up by 10 points. American voters will renew the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate on Nov. 7.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger chuckled at a comment from Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez last month in Sacramento as he signed Núñez's measure to create a discount prescription drug program. SACRAMENTO – Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez is a key figure in a major gubernatorial campaign. But it might be hard to tell which one. Núñez, co-chairman of Democrat Phil Angelides' struggling campaign, has been spending far more time at public events heaping praise on Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger than with the candidate he has endorsed. In a variety of joint appearances, Núñez has lauded Schwarzenegger's “courage” and “leadership” in signing bills to...

With their record over the past few years, the Big Government Republicans in Washington do not merit the support of conservatives. They have busted the federal budget for generations to come with the prescription-drug benefit and the creation and expansion of other programs. They have brought forth a limitless flow of pork for the sole, immoral purpose of holding onto office. They have expanded government regulation into every aspect of our lives and refused to deal seriously with mounting domestic problems such as illegal immigration. They have spent more time seeking the favors of K Street lobbyists than listening to...

Murtha Tells MoveOn Members: 'Screw' Republicans By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor October 13, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - "Screw them," Rep. John Murtha said of Republicans in an email sent to the liberal political group MoveOn.org on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who is urging a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, added that he needs its members' help to throw GOP congressmen "out of power -- as many of them as possible." "A year ago when I presented my plan for Iraq, I did it to provide leadership and protect our troops," Murtha stated in his email. "The Republicans have spent their...

Angelides drew attention when he called on the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System to involve 2 percent of their portfolios in the state's "emerging markets" -- neglected, low-income neighborhoods. But conservatives charge he pushed controversial financial policies and effectively overrode the state constitution by politicizing a ministerial post to promote market and societal changes. "He is putting the public employees' money at risk to pursue a political agenda and to help him get into the governor's mansion," protested Adrian Moore, vice president of the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles libertarian think tank. As a...

Perhaps nothing underscores the significance of these mid-term elections more than the reality of 2500 killed and 18,000 maimed needlessly in Iraq, 100,000 Iraqi civilians lives lost. And then on Thursday, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives used the opposition of a small Klan-type group of legislators as an excuse to hijack the long-awaited vote to re-approve the Voting Rights Act, potentially denying and disenfranchising Black and Latino voters in the South. And on Wednesday the Senate failed to get the 60 votes necessary to increase the minimum wage, while a third of children live in poverty, a...

CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in… (Chrissy)MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that? CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. They live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance...

State Sen. Tom McClintock, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, is generally the darling of the conservative "hot talk" radio crowd, but he's been taking his lumps lately for daring to defend Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his erstwhile running mate. Tuesday night, for example, McClintock joined the governor for a Schwarzenegger fund-raiser in Pasadena, then made his way over to the KFI radio studio, where talk show host John Ziegler spent an hour trying to get him to trash the governor. Having Angelides as governor "would hurt like the dickens and hurt (the state) for years to come," he said. "I...

With the Democrats' full-throated moralizing of late, I'm almost tempted to vote for them — although perhaps "full-throated" is the wrong phrase to use with regard to Democrats and sex scandals. The sudden emergence of the Swift Butt Veterans for Truth demonstrates that the Democrats would prefer to talk about anything other than national security. Unfortunately for them, the psychotic Kim Jong Il seems to be setting off nukes, raising the embarrassing issue of the Clinton administration's 1994 "peace" deal with North Korea. At least with former Rep. Mark Foley, you could say the Democrats' hypocritical grandstanding was just politics....

North Korea's explosive declaration that it has joined the ranks of nuclear-armed nations is the sort of shock wave that at first glance would seem to provide a boost to Republican candidates. One month before election day, with the GOP mired in a congressional sex scandal, the emergence of a new global threat and a renewed focus on national security seems to play right into a Republican strength with an issue that has secured their national majority the past two elections. "Let me put it this way,'' White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday from the briefing-room podium. "We're...

Sept. 28 - With less than six weeks until the November mid-term elections, Democratic Congressional candidates have taken the lead among voters, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll.IF THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS for U.S. Congress were held today, more registered voters say they would vote for the Democratic candidate (47 percent) than the Republican candidate (40 percent) in their district. Thirteen percent say the would vote for another party’s candidate or are undecided. That’s a turnabout from the NEWSWEEK poll taken just after President George W. Bush’s Sept. 12 speech on Iraq to the United Nations, when 43 percent said they...

Sunset Edition A new poll shows Democrat Jay Fawcett tied with Republican Doug Lamborn in the race for an open congressional seat in a district that historically has been solidly in GOP hands. Each has support from 37 percent of respondents in a poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, while 26 percent of respondents in the six-county district were undecided. The poll of 400 likely voters, conducted Oct. 3-7, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. “It appears that Lamborn is now the first Republican who has ever had to fight hard to take...

Ex-Boston City Councilor Scondras nabbed in underage sex sting By Laura Crimaldi Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Updated: 06:06 PM EST LAWRENCE - Former Boston City Councilor David Scondras was busted in a Lawrence school parking lot before dawn Monday after showing up with lubricant and booze in hope of a tryst in the woods with a 15-year-old boy he’d met online, the authorities said. The ‘‘boy” that Scondras, 60, of Cambridge allegedly drove some 30 miles to meet for sex turned out to be a 20-year-old Lawrence General Hospital security guard, police say. The guard said he’d received a...

Outside Santorum's Sanctum By JERRY BOWYER October 10, 2006 Rick Santorum is in big trouble. He had already been on the ropes for the past year, but last week it got a lot worse. Carl Romenelli, a Green Party candidate for Senate lost — lost his last legal hope for ballot access. Not enough signatures. The Greens would have siphoned votes away from the Democrats, and now they won't. The national press corrps is already rehearsing its soliloquies on the meaning of the loss by Senator Santorum. They are all about President Bush, Iraq, the economy, and an alleged backlash...