Tag Archives: Senate

FLORIDA: Anti-Gay Teabagger Marco Rubio Defeats Charlie Crist For Senate

Oh, what a world in which Charlie Crist was actually the better choice. Rubio, of course, is in the pocket of the Florida Family Policy Council, who were one of the main groups behind Amendment 2, which instituted a statewide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Rubio’s decisive win has thrilled the repulsive quislings at GOProud, who’ve never met a disgustingly …

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KENTUCKY: Teabagger Rand Paul Stomps His Boot On The Face Of The State

Matt Yglesias has the best tweet in reaction to the networks calling teabagger Rand Paul as the Senate winner from Kentucky: “Finally we have a Senator willing to stand up the tyranny of the Civil Rights Act!”

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ALASKA: 70 Teabaggers Registered As Write-Ins To Confuse Murkowski Voters

Hoping to confuse Alaska voters intent on voting for write-in candidate Sen. Lisa Murkowski, at least 70 teabagger supporters of anti-gay nutjob Joe Miller have also had their names placed on today’s ballot. The possibility that Miller backers or Tea Party supporters would launch some sort of effort in an attempt to torpedo her write-in bid was already a concern …

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Nate Silver’s Final Senate Forecast

Larger interactive version here. Silver gives the GOP a 9% chance of winning the Senate majority. Keep your eyes on West Virginia, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, and Illinois. Alaska is really a mystery, what with Murkowski’s write-in campaign and the GOP backing away from its own nominee Joe Miller. Democrat Scott McAdams is only polling at 27%, but in a three-way …

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Attack Ad Of The Year

Dan Savage weighs in on Diaper Boy. David Vitter, of course, is a whoremonger and a conservative Christian who supports “family values.” But Vitter is right with God and right with his constituents—and will most likely get his rightwing ass reelected—because, you see, he at least has the decency to hate the homos. Vitter supports a constitutional amendment banning same-sex …

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Ken Buck On The Gays

From the official YouTube channel of Sen. Michael Bennet.

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KENTUCKY: Rand Paul’s Head-Stomper Wants An Apology From The VICTIM

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NEVADA: Nate Silver Sees Harry Reid’s Chances Shrinking Against Sharron Angle

Grim, grim, grim. As much as we loathe Lady Racist, at least some of this has to be due to Reid’s somnolent performance in the debate. He makes Al Gore look like a manic game show host.

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CALIFORNIA: Sen. Barbara Boxer Holding Decent Lead Over Carly Fiorina

It’s looking more and more like Sen. Barbara Boxer is going to be able to fend off Carly “Demon Sheep” Fiorina, who this week poured another million from her HP golden parachute into her campaign. Fiorina has spent $6.5M of her own money so far, but still lags far behind Boxer in overall fundraising.

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ALASKA: Rachel Maddow Corners Teabagger Loon Joe Miller On Gay Issues

And the answers were (murkily) what you’d expect. Miller says if elected to the Senate, he’d support an constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. He is currently in a three-way tie with Democrat Sam McAdams and write-in GOP incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

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Quote Of The Day – Ken Buck

“I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that’s sanctioned by the government, it doesn’t mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion. And so …

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KENTUCKY: Rand Paul Supporters Attack Protester From MoveOn.Org

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It’s Gonna Be A Long Election Night

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

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HRC & Courage Campaign To Carly Fiorina: Reject The Extremists At NOM

NOM has spent over $220K supporting Carly Fiorina. HRC and the Courage Campaign want Fiorina to reject their support as religious extremism.

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Tweet Of The Day – Reid Wilson

Here’s the full quote from Sharron Angle: “So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it’s the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what …

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Rand Paul Vs. Jack Conway

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Quote Of The Day – John McCain

“The President of the United States has no military experience, no impact with the military, went over to San Diego and called the corpsman ‘corpse’ man. I guess he thought it was ‘The Day of the Living Dead’. And has made this decision because of a political promise to the gay and lesbian community. Absolutely I will filibuster or stop …

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Teabagger Senate Candidate Ken Buck: Gayness Is A Choice, Like Alcoholism

Today on Meet The Press, teabagger Senate candidate Ken Buck declared that being gay is a choice. Except when it’s not, like for alcoholics. Or something. Via Talking Points Memo: Colorado Senate candidates Ken Buck (R) and incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet (D) met for a debate on Meet The Press this morning and sparred on the budget, the Tea Party …

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Rand Paul: Abolish The DOE Because They Might Teach About Gay Families

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ALASKA: Teabagger Joe Miller Parodies Old Spice Ad To Mock GOP’s Lisa Murkowski

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