Democratic leaders are expressing their outrage over a 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding an Indiana law requiring a photo I.D. be presented at polling places in order to vote.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, "The Court
Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright star in a new campaign ad for Greg Davis, the Republican running for the House seat once held by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
The ad highlights Obama's endorsement for his opponent, Democrat Travis Childers, and Wright's controversial statement about the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The spot is similar to one that the North Carolina Republican Party plans to run this week that features footage of Obama, Wright and two Democratic gubernatorial candidates.
Though Childers is a Democrat running in a conservative district, he received more votes than Davis in a special election last week. But since he didn't capture a majority of the special election's votes, Childers must still beat Davis in a run-off next month.
Childers's campaign has yet to respond to Davis's ad.
House Republican campaign chief Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) wasn't kidding when he said that President Bush would be welcome to campaign for his candidates. But trips like Bush's most recent one might cause him agita.
Bush recently visited South Kent, Conn., to attend a fundraiser at Henry Kissinger's house for Nutmeg State Republicans. Though Bush was born in Connecticut, he's far from a favorite son; two-thirds of the voters in 2006, the last time a statewide election was held, disapproved of how he was handling his job.
As the president got off Air Force One, he was photographed with Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.), who faces another tough reelection race this year. (thirdparty at Daily Kos has the photos.)
While Shays was photographed with Bush, a Republican House candidate the president was raising money for, David Cappiello, was not, reports The New York Times. Cappiello, a state senator, has raised about $1.1 million less than the congressman he hopes to unseat, freshman Chris Murphy (D).
Duncan D. Hunter is getting a boost from a national pro-life group in his bid to succeed his father, retiring Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.).
The National Right to Life PAC endorsed the younger Hunter on Thursday.
"The countless Americans who respect the sanctity of innocent human life appreciate your willingness to serve," said the PAC's executive director, David O'Steen, in a statement.
Hunter's father, a staunch conservative, has represented the San Diego-area district for 27 years. Hunter, a 31-year-old veteran of the Iraq war, will face three other Republicans in a June 3 primary. He has raised about
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) leads his Democratic challenger Al Franken in a new Rasmussen poll.
Coleman, seeking a second term, is ahead 50 percent to 43 percent in the poll of likely Minnesota voters. The margin of error is 4.5 percent.
Previous Rasmussen surveys in February and March had the race within the margin of error. Eric Kleefeld of TPM Election Central suggested that Franken's failure to pay California taxes may have hurt him.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) today released a web video outlining what it calls illegal collaboration between the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the conservative advocacy group Freedom's Watch.
Both Freedom's Watch (see here) and the NRCC (see here) have aired television ads in Louisiana attacking Don Cazayoux, Democratic candidate for the state's sixth congressional district seat. The DCCC alleges that the organizations collaborated illegally in creating the ads.
The DCCC first alleged illegal coordination between Freedom's Watch and the NRCC last Wednesday in a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). In the press release accompanying that complaint, the DCCC said Freedom's Watch had "provided television stations running their ads" with a script that "included electronic identifiers indicating that the NRCC created the Word document."
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has filed another complaint against a television ad run by a conservative advocacy group in Louisiana's 6th congressional district race.
In its complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the DCCC charges that the spot by Freedom's Watch, which tries to tie the Democratic candidate Don Cazayoux to excessive government spending, breaks election law by taking a position on Cazayoux's voting record. The DCCC views this as an appeal to vote against Cazayoux, which is prohibited three weeks before an election. The complaint also argues that the group broke the law by failing to disclose donors who each gave $1,000 or more for "the purpose of furthering electioneering communications."
This is the DCCC's second complaint to the FEC over the ad; last week, it had accused Freedom's Watch with illegally coordinating its message with the National Republican Congressional Committee, which had run a similar ad about Cazayoux.
Cazayoux faces Republican Woody Jenkins in a May 3 special election for the House seat. Rep. Richard Baker (R) vacated the seat in February to take a job with a lobbying association representing the hedge fund industry.
Ed Patru, a spokesman for Freedom's Watch, called both of the DCCC's complaints "nonsense."
"The DCCC is obsessed with keeping Don Cazayoux
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Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) will announce today his challenge to Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R), according to Alaska Report. Stevens, who is currently under multiple criminal investigations, has held the seat since 1968.
After forming an exploratory committee earlier in the cycle, Begich has raised $267,090.
The Iowa Democratic Party is criticizing Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) for posting the transcript of a controversial radio interview on his congressional website. In the interview, King said Islamic terrorists would celebrate if Barack Obama were elected U.S. president because of the Illinois senator's Kenyan father and middle name.
The race to succeed retiring Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.) remains wide open, according to a new poll released Thursday.
Republicans believe the seat is a possible pick-up opportunity in a year where many seats lean Democratic.
In the GOP primary, voters are divided between businessman Mike Erickson and former state party chairman Kevin Mannix. Erickson received 44 percent and Mannix got 40 percent in the Survey USA poll, which has a margin of error of 5 percent. The race is breaking down along ideological lines, as Erickson leads by 30 points among pro-choice voters and Mannix leads by 8 points among pro-life voters.
The Democratic primary is just as unsettled. State Sen. Kurt Schrader receives 23 percent in the poll while Steve Marks, a one-time gubernatorial chief of staff, gets 20 percent. The margin of error for the Democrats is 4 percent.
Hooley, who announced she wouldn't seek a seventh term in February, had won her 2006 race by 11 points.
Both of the Republicans have raised more money, about $100,000 each, than the Democrats, who raised about $26,000 each.
Watch the Erickson's just-released campaign ad against illegal immigration and video of Mannix speaking after the jump.
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