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First, the obligatory Monty Python video. Second, a word problem. In 1994 the GOP gained 54 seats to take control of the House for the first time in decades. In 2010, Fox News is reporting that it appears Republicans will gain up to 65 seats. What’s the difference between 65 and 54? Answer below the […]

As expected, Republicans will take control of the House and likely by 60+ seats. Surprisingly, it looks like the GOP will underperform in the Senate races. Many believed if the GOP were in the 60+ area, that gaining control of the Senate was within reach. Instead it appears that the Republicans will fall 3-4 seats […]

Morons at Saturday’s “Rally for Sanity”.

Late Saturday night a story broke in the Alaska Senate race about some reporters at the Alaska CBS affiliate KTVA suggesting that there would be a child molester at a rally for Republican nominee Joe Miller or maybe a fight. The audio was obtained after a KTVA staffer failed to successfully hang up the phone […]

If you turned in this article in Professor Hoy’s journalism 101 class, you’d get an F. Single-payer coverage sought by doctors The government is the only insurance provider in such a system, touted by some local physicians By Bob Cuddy | [email protected] These are gloomy days for those who believe President Barack Obama’s health care […]

How’s that working out? President Obama's post-partisan America has disappeared, replaced by the politics of polarization, resentment and division. In a Univision interview on Monday, the president, who campaigned in 2008 by referring not to a "Red America" or a "Blue America" but a United States of America, urged Hispanic listeners to vote in this […]

It took President George W. Bush a heck of a lot longer to get this unpopular. Says [Democrat pollster Doug] Schoen: "Despite voters feelings toward Obama personally, 56 percent say he does not deserve to be re-elected, while 38 percent say he does deserve to be re-elected president." Worse, Schoen adds, "43 percent say that […]

Proposition 23 in California will suspend the state’s global warming law until the state unemployment rate falls below 5.5% for 4 consecutive quarters. The one thing you don’t want to be doing in this economic environment is raising costs on consumers and businesses. (For the record: The stupid law ought to be repealed wholesale, but […]

A couple weeks back, an East San Diego County school board candidate asked for my prediction on the upcoming midterm elections. My guess then: GOP +55 House, GOP +8 Senate. Now, that’s going against the historic grain for one reason: In the past century or so, every time control of the House has flipped, the […]

Usually it’s politicians using push polls to make things look better than they are. In some instances, less trustworthy media do push polling in an effort to make their side think things are better than they really are. $1 magazine, known to many as Newsweek has a poll out today that has apparently been shipped […]