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Actual Title of Article from Hillbuzz (shortened for FR requirements): Who Is Funding the Purchase of the $35 million Beachfront Hawaiian Estate for Barack and Michelle Obama to Move into Come January 2013? I’ve done some more digging here in Chicago on the story we brought you on Friday about plans currently underway to purchase a $35 million beachfront estate on the island of Oahu in a part of Hawaii called “Kailua” for the Obama family to move into in January 2013 when they leave the White House. >snip The woman who is organizing the funding of the Obama’s post-presidential...

1) He's not a conservative. There have been a lot of conservatives who've talked a good game during the primaries and then have let us down in D.C., but if Mitt Romney becomes the nominee and gets elected, some people seem to be hoping that he'll be the first Republican moderate to go to D.C. and turn into a fire-breathing conservative. Based on his record, if Mitt Romney is nominated, he will be the least conservative candidate since Nixon. >snip 2) He doesn't believe in anything politically other than Mitt Romney. What conservative cause has Mitt Romney ever fought like...

Oh my God, could bluer than blue Brookline — the capital of Moonbat-istan — be breaking for Republican Sean Bielat? For 25 years I’ve lived in Brookline, where Republicans admit they’re Republicans at their own risk. Yet I haven’t seen so many lawn signs for a Republican since a few courageous matrons put a “Weld for Governor” placard on their lawn in 1990 and paid the price: social suicide. They were promptly shunned at Whole Foods. Their poor children sat alone in the cafeteria. It says something huge about Barney Frank’s fall from grace that a few brave Brookline-ites are...

Here are five races that suggest the scope and type of change this election may bring to the House. This Democrat's Fate is a Litmus Test of the GOP Wave Rep. Raul Grijalva vs. Ruth McClung, Arizona, 7th District If the Republican "wave" reaches historic proportions—but perhaps only if it does—it could swamp Democrats such as Rep. Raul Grijalva. snip Vote May Help Boost GOP's Position With Minorities Tim Scott vs. Ben Frasier, South Carolina, 1st District A Republican state legislator, Tim Scott, is likely to succeed an outgoing Republican congressman in a conservative district. But it may tell us...

We just got an email from a woman in Connecticut who heard a caller on a radio show tonight say she witnessed Democrats filling out ballots for unresponsive, dementia-addled patients in nursing homes. The caller identified two facilities by name. Can someone track down the names of those two nursing homes? For some reason, when a lot of you send these tips to us you leave out a lot of vital info…and then we need to sleuth this stuff out. In this instance, it would have been great to know the radio station call letters, the show and hosts’ names,...

Murray's latest fundraising report shows that some of her heaviest support has come from lawyers, government employees and executives at nonprofit groups, health-care companies and biotechnology firms. That's in contrast to Rossi, who counts real-estate developers, venture capitalists, Wall Street executives and auto dealers among his biggest donors. Among the local business leaders backing Murray's fourth run for the U.S. Senate are lawyer Bill Gates Sr. and his wife, Mimi, and Jon DeVaan, Microsoft senior vice president of Windows Development and an active Democratic campaign contributor. Others who gave to Murray include Joni Earl, director of Sound Transit; Lee Fromson,...

Back during the Republican primary, there was the Case of the Missing Ballots in the Republican Primary. Then, interestingly, someone with the Alaska Division of Elections in Wasilla stated that the NRSC (who was representing Lisa Murkowski at the time) had not used its computers when, in reality, Joe Miller's people had witnessed the NRSC had done precisely that. Then there was Dan Riehl asking if Lisa Murkowski could cheat on an Alaskan Bar exam -- why wouldn't she cheat in an election? Now enter Exhibit 1 from Matt Felling - a tweet he sent out yesterday evening. matthewfelling matthewfelling...

Latest Real Clear Politics rankings, which seem to be shifting red in recent days: WA-9 (Smith v Muri) and WA-2 (Larsen v Koster) are toss-up, WA-8 (Reichert v DelBene) and WA-3 (Heck v Herrera) leaning GOP. Reichert has always had close races, but in the other districts Larsen, Smith and Baird won their last three elections (if not more) with over 60% of the vote. RCP considers WA's remaining seats to be safe for the incumbents.

Dino Rossi and Patty Murray 2nd and final debate in Seattle tonight. 7 p.m. Pacific. Watch on Komo TV Channel 4 in Seattle or via live streaming here: http://www.komonews.com/live

Info here (Spokane or Eastern WA stations and live streaming): televised on KXLY4, KSPS, simulcast on KXLY920 and streamed live on kxly.com. http://www.kxly.com/index.html

After Election Day, Washington state easily could become the scene of a marathon ballot count, with the balance of power in the Senate on the line. Though the solid blue state would seem an unexpected place for national political drama, the unusually close race for control in the Senate makes the Pacific Northwest factor heavily into Republican plans for a takeover. And with Washington elections decided almost entirely by absentee ballot, it could take weeks before the winner of the state's senate race is declared. snip Somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 percent of voters in Washington state opt for...

Dino Rossi (hopefully the next Senator from WA State) will be on Fox News soon.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee may be throwing in the towel in Washington State’s Eighth District race between incumbent Rep. Dave Reichert (R) and former Microsoft executive Suzan Delbene (D). The Delbene campaign has been running silent for at least 48 hours, and sources indicate that the DCCC has cancelled a third of their broadcast television buys in the Seattle market for October 19th through the 25th. Credible sources claim that the cancelled spots were those that targeted Reichert, leaving Delbene now to fend for herself. The cancellation of the DCCC's ad buy affects a critical time period in the...

Note from Seattle Conservative: Cathy McMorris Rodgers is Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference and a Republican Rep from the 5th District of WA State.] From the web site: Before we departed for the August recess, I challenged my Republican colleagues in Congress to use the power of visual and social media to develop a more dynamic connection with constituents. To accomplish that, as Vice-Chair of the House Republican Conference, I hosted a video competition among Members. The entries are in! Please watch my office's first video submission: [note: video at link] Please tell me what you think, and...

Barbara Boxer says she wants California voters to send her back to the Senate, but she might have an easier time making that argument if she had spent more time there in the first place. Jim Geraghty reports on Boxer’s travel habits, as well as her habit of having family tag along to such hotbeds of foreign-policy focus as … Paris, France, where Boxer ostensibly studied Islamic influence, and Dublin, where Boxer researched US-Russian relations? I guess Moscow wasn’t as much fun: Since 2000, Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, has taken 18 trips sponsored by outside organizations, at a value...

The Washington Employment Security Department has released to Red County the email sent by a WorkSource employee who used government resources to organize support for Sen. Patty Murray’s campaign. In the email, WorkSource employee Sally Garcia asks veterans to contact Kerala Hise, either by telephone or at a pattymurray.com address, to get involved in a ‘”walk and knock” to remind people to vote” for Murray’s re-election. Garcia’s email also suggested that recipients “[t]ake a look at the attachments I”—Garcia—“have included.” Employment Security unequivocally stated that no attachments were sent with the message but that Garcia did send a file to...

Quote: Okay guys, I pulled up some old 2004 election night result coverage and watched it, so read this BEFORE Election Night 2008, it will help calm your nerves. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, DC, New Jersey, Vermont, Delaware, Maine, Illinois, Rhode Island, California, Washington, ALL called with 0 percent in just from exit polls. So if that happens with Obama, don't get discouraged. Kerry didn't win remember. Virginia - was too close to call with Kerry vs. Bush. Bush ended up winning by 8%. South Carolina - too close to call. Bush ended up winning by quite a bit....

Joe the Plumber, of Knoxville, that is, says he's less concerned about whether he gets a tax break if his customers still can't afford to hire him. Still, Joe Shanks, a licensed master plumber and owner of Joe's Plumbing Service in the Cedar Bluff area, has followed the presidential campaigns the same as his much-quoted counterpart in Toledo, Ohio, who questioned Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over his proposed tax hike for those who make more than $250,000 a year. >snip Shanks, an independent voter, said he's supporting Republican Sen. John McCain, citing the official's career experience in office as the...

A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is "not confident we can get a fair election" in the state come November. Justice Sandra Newman, accompanied by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward Marsico and Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason, expressed her concerns at a Harrisburg press conference this morning. A thick document replete with photo copies of phony registrations and aerial shots of vacant lots used as "addresses" for "voters" was handed out to journalists. Gleason was even more explicit. "Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County...

From Sandy in PA: obama said last night that his mother spent the last months of her life (when she was dying of cancer) lying in a hospital bed "fighting with the insurance company". What's bothering me about this is: a) That he is using his mother's death for political gain (but I'm not surprised) and I'm suspicious that he's lying anyway. b) What kind of son or daughter allows their sick and dying mother to have to deal with the insurance company crap? I think a lot of us can attest to stepping in and dealing with the insurance...