Day: March 30, 2010

Just a few tidbits from a recent conference call with John Kraus, senior strategist for Senator Russ Feingold’s reelection campaign: On health care reform being signed into law: Health care reform is a HUGE benefit to the campaign – good policy is also good politics. In getting health care reform…

It seems the folks at the Republican National Committee aren’t as fiscally conservative with their money as they say they’d be with taxpayers’ money, according to a report from The Washington Post’s 44 blog. According to newly filed financial disclosure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, the RNC has…

This story is precisely why health care reform was so necessary: Houston Tracy is just 10 days old, but the little boy has already lived through trying times. “He was born with what’s called transposition of the great arteries.” his father, Doug Tracy said. “It’s heart wrenching; I hated it.”…

What will a Democratic “victory” look like in November? That’s a question I’ve been finding myself pondering lately, and as Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight notes, “victory” for Democrats could be defined using any number of criteria: Obviously, there are some overly literal ways to interpret this question. One could say…

The gubernatorial campaign of Republican Scott Walker has been making hay of the recent closure of a ramp in the Zoo Interchange, attempting to portray Tom Barrett as being responsible for the closure, but the Barrett campaign has hit back at Walker, pointing out that blame is going to be…