Tag Archives: 2010 elections

Sam Stein reports at Huffington Post: An otherwise obscure statehouse race in Midland County, Michigan, may be home to the most remarkable robocall of the election cycle — put up by a social conservative group, it drops the word “homosexual” ten times. Over the weekend, Gary Glenn, the chairman of the Campaign for Michigan Families, released a robocall attacking the …

“People are tired of activist judges who rule not according to their own constitution and laws of their state. If they are removed, it will stop this judicial activism. What they are saying is that they can give rights to individuals that were at one time unimagined. If that’s not judicial activism, what is? What’s to stop them from letting …

A just-released poll shows Rep. Barney Frank leading GOP candidate Sean Bielat by 13 points, a tighter margin than some had expected.

“There’s no absolute right to serve. Men under the height of 5 feet, 2 inches can’t serve — I don’t see anybody protesting. Where are the people standing in front of the White House, the short guys standing in front of the White House? You don’t see it. We understand that there’s no absolute right to serve in all these …

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Today the Associated Press wonders if gay voters disillusioned with the Obama administration will cost the Democrats seats in tightly contested races. Across the country, activists say gay voters are angry — at the lack of progress on issues from eliminating employment discrimination to uncertainty over serving in the military to the economy — and some are choosing to sit …

Teabagger loon, “ex-gay” advocate, and not-a-witch Christine O’Donnell has admitted that she’s been illegally using campaign donations to pay her rent. [O’Donnell] acknowledges using campaign money to pay part of the rent on her current town house. Her attorney maintains someone with the Federal Election Commission approved the arrangement, although the commission’s rules say candidates can’t use campaign money for …

Gold’s Gym CEO Robert Rowling is one of the four billionaires providing 97% of the funding to Karl Rove’s “grassroots” political action group, American Crossroads, which in turn is funding the campaigns of anti-gay candidates like Roy Blunt and Sharron Angle. Change.org reports: Rowling, head of TRT Holdings, which is the owner of Gold’s Gym, is spending quite a bit …

This is (by my count) the ninth consecutive ad from Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann in which her own name is not mentioned, other than in the opening disclaimer.

Some good news out of Florida, where the latest polls show Alex Sink improving to a toss-up with teabagger Rick Scott, whose hospital chain paid the largest federal fine in history for medicare fraud. Unsurprisingly, Scott is also the founder of an astroturf group lobbying for removing regulations on the hospital industry. If elected, Scott vows to block health care …

Sean Bielat is trailing miles behind Rep. Barney Frank (10 to 25 points, depending on whose poll you believe), so today he takes a disco potshot at Frank via a woman in a fat suit.

Over at FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver updates his forecasts today to predict that the GOP will pick up 49 seats in the House. That’s far fewer than the 100+ being claimed by some Republican flacks, but still enough for the GOP to take the majority by six seats. Silver hedges his bets: As I have warned repeatedly in the past, we …

With an unprecedented number of races in the toss-up category, it’s gonna be loooong election night on November 2nd.

Next Monday NOM launches their third bus tour, this time in Iowa to support the Christianist campaign to defeat the state’s Supreme Court justices. In one sweeping decision unelected judges decided that it is all right to purposefully deny a child a mother and a father and that millennia of tradition and the views of a large majority of Iowans, …

Embiggen for the details. I blog a LOT about the nonstop clown car that is the New York Senate, but too rarely do I laud its heroes like my own state Sen. Liz Krueger, who is onboard with every LGBT issue.