Campaign

So, which side in this election cycle has raised the most special interest cash?

According to The New York Times, ah, that would be the Democrats.

Which special interest group has spent the most money trying to influence voters?

According to The Wall Street Journal, that would be the union representing government workers.

Which president got elected because of the influx of unaccountable, untraceable money from hedge fund billionaires?

That would be Barack Hussein Obama. Read more...

With Election Day less than a week away, the buzz in Washington has turned to likely voters and how they’ll cast their ballot next Tuesday. One group generating attention this year is women.

As I wrote earlier this month, it appears the gender gap is fading away. Now new poll data released by both Pew and Gallup reinforce this finding.

In a recent survey, Pew found white women favor Republicans by 20 points. And among all likely female voters, respondents chose Republicans over Democrats 49-43.

Seven days from now the nation will have spoken, sort of, through the election booth. This coming week is the time when the elusive “undecided voter” makes his or her decision about voting for and against candidates for public office.

There’s been no shortage of information out there about the election to date. But if undecided voters are looking for more, they may take into consideration one Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California, as a possible crystal ball for a glimpse into the future of a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. If independent voters are looking for consensus-building solutions that will address our lagging economy, Issa is a great example of how a Republican-controlled Congress will deliver anything but. Rather than work constructively on solutions, a Republican House will spend its time and taxpayer resources on frivolous, politically driven “gotcha” games designed to embarrass the administration.

The NPR firing of Juan Williams should cut off any perceived momentum that Democrats were hoping to gain through the NAACP’s attack on the Tea Parties. After all, it is Fox News that embraced Williams by giving him a new, lucrative contract extension after NPR fired him for stating that people in Muslim garb on a plane make him nervous.

For Tea Party Republicans, that could not be better timing. First they get to support a black, liberal journalist, hardly what one would expect from those whom the NAACP attacked as “racists.”

We know Democrats aren't talking about their agenda, but we hear them talking an awful lot about those "shadowy" Republican groups spending secretly donated money on "issue" ads that have expanded the playing field and left Democrats scrambling to defend nearly 100 seats.

What Democrats aren't telling you is that some of them are backing third-party candidates they hope will be spoilers for the GOP challengers running against them, according to The New York Times.

Most readers know that Lilly Ledbetter is the woman whose courageous battle has led to progress, though not enough progress, for women receiving equal pay for equal work. Recently, Ledbetter stood side by side with one of her greatest supporters when she endorsed Sen. Harry Reid (D) for reelection in Nevada.

Lilly Ledbetter is the Good Lord's answer to Sharron Angle, who taunts Reid with her call to "man up.” What Lilly Ledbetter knows and Sharron Angle will never learn is that a real man stands tall, as Harry Reid has stood tall for a lifetime, to fight for every woman in Nevada and every woman in America receiving an honest day's pay for an honest day's work.

By now everyone has heard that Democratic Party operatives in New Jersey placed a candidate on the ballot in New Jersey’s 3^rd congressional district, as incumbent Rep. John Adler desperately tries to hold on to his seat against former Philadelphia Eagle Jon Runyan.

The uproar has been loud and pronounced against this dirty trick designed to split the vote of independent and Tea Party voters away from his Republican opponent. Of course, the impact of third-party candidates on elections is well documented.

The Tea Party is coming to town. The number of seats won Nov. 2 by Tea Party-backed candidates doesn't matter; the movement is coming to Washington and will dramatically alter the Republican Conference in the House as well as the one in the Senate.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) knows this and has seen it coming. Even if he doesn't become Speaker, he will be leading a more conservative group of Republicans. Since he wants to win as many seats as possible and to become Speaker, Boehner started giving to Tea Party candidates even before some of them won primary races against establishment candidates, according to today's Washington Post.

The strong comeback in the Pennsylvania Senate campaign of Democratic Rep. and retired Adm. Joe Sestak is, from my point of view, one of the few great moments in the 2010 campaign.

In a national campaign full of sickening slanders and second-rate minds, Sestak stands out for one big truth that has governed his life, his work and his career, and it is this: