Tag: U.S. Senate
Senate Bill To Include Opt-Out Public Option
Harry Reid is holding a press conference starting at 3:15 to announce the details of the health care bill that will voted on by the Senate. Early reports say that the bill will include the opt-out public option. This is important because it will take 60 votes to remove the public option out of the […]
CASTLE TO RUN
Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) will be running for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware, according to a source connected to the congressman, instantly giving Republicans the opportunity to flip a traditionally-Democratic seat in their column.
Castle and Biden to Play Chicken?
Senate Guru has a nice post up about some of the potential gamesmanship between Beau Biden and Michael Castle in the next month or so. Beau is due back this month from Iraq and Castle has been sitting on the pot for way too long. Senate Guru’s guess is that neither of them wants to […]
Cattle Call – Delaware Senate Race
Who do you think should run for the open Senate seat in 2010? Democrats, Republicans, Independents – tell us your picks.
In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW
Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first:
End of the 2Q Fundraising
Today, June 30, is the end of the 2nd quarter and the last day to give for donations to appear in the 2Q fundraising reports (federal candidates). I know it’s not an election year, but fundraising reports, especially in the early race are used as a gauge of strength of a candidate. There are two […]
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