Palin Resigning as Governor
Sarah Palin has announced that, not only will she not seek re-election as governor of Alaska in 2010 but that she is resigning her office later this month. Andrew Hinkelman and Lori Tipton for KTUU: Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning. Lt. Gov. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 3, 2009 15:48
Joe Sestak to Challenge Specter in Democratic Primary
Talking Points Memo is reporting that Rep. Joe Sestak from Pennsylvania will be challenging Arlen Specter in the Democratic Primary. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is privately telling supporters that he intends to run for Senate, TPMDC has confirmed. "He intends to get in the race," says Meg Infantino, the Congressman's sister, who works at Sestak for Congress. "In the not too distant ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 28, 2009 00:12
Tom Ridge Maryland Resident, Pennsylvanian?
Taegan Goddard passes on word that Tom Ridge, once Pennsylvania's governor and putatively contemplating running for Arlen Specter's seat representing that state in the Senate, is a resident of Maryland for the purposes of federal tax and lobbying filings. Do these sort of things matter in statewide elections? Is anyone otherwise disposed to vote for Ridge going to be dissuaded by ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 5, 2009 14:51
Tom Ridge Senate Bid?
Former Pennsylvania governor and Department of Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge is considering running for Arlen Specter's seat in the Senate, Roll Call reports (via Taegan Goddard). Very interesting. With Specter in the race for the Republican nomination, it was expected to be a two-way rematch with Pat Toomey. Now, there's speculation that former senator Rick Santorum may run and there ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 3, 2009 08:14
Chris Matthews for Senate?
At least two statewide Pennsylvania polls have shown that "Hardball" host Chris Matthews would be a serious contender if he chose to challenge Arlen Specter for the Senate in 2010 and Matthews has indicated that he has at least some interest in running, WaPo's Chris Cillizza reports. Matthews would be an interesting candidate. His "Hardball" personality is annoying and frenetic for ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 12, 2008 15:12
McCain - Obama Debate 1: Foreign Policy
Forty minutes into the first presidential debate of the 2008 general election season, which was supposed to be about foreign policy, we have had precisely no discussion of foreign policy thanks to moderator Jim Lehrer's asking the same three domestic policy questions repeatedly. Granting that there's an emergency in the financial sector, most of the questions are only tangentially related ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 26, 2008 21:43
Some Bad Fiscal News
Mark Thoma and Menzie Chinn post excerpts from a Wall Street Journal article on Bush's budget. What caught my eye was the last part about the fiscal problm facing the next administration, OK. Take a breath. The U.S. economy is not Iraq, and today's headlines are upbeat... But look ahead, and there is an unwelcome parallel between Iraq and the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on February 10, 2007 11:56
Chris Dodd ‘Drops’ Re-Election Bid
Chris Dodd has filed papers dropping out of the 2010 Senate race. As Hotline explains, though, this is just an accounting move which allows him to "transfer all of his money he raised for his 2010 re-election to his WH campaign account without penalty." It's a bizarre system, really. To the extent the federal government is going ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 21, 2007 09:53
Barack Obama Officially Running in 2008
Senator Barack Obama is forming a presidential exploratory committee, thus officially tossing his hat into the 2008 presidential ring. The press release is available, in PDF format, here. The text is available below the fold of this post. His website is now taking donations. Here's his announcement video, which Hotline says is likely the work of David Axelrod: Interestingly, as ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 16, 2007 11:45
Mark Dayton May Run for Minnesota Governor
Mark Dayton may have been a lousy Senator but he thinks he'd make a great governor. As the minutes ticked down toward noon Wednesday -- the end of his one-term Senate career -- the departing Democrat said he is considering a run for Minnesota governor in 2010. The announcement came as he recounted his frustration with Congress, acknowledging he had not ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 5, 2007 10:42
Long-Term Senate Democratic Majority?
Perhaps weirdly ironic in light of the Tim Johnson health watch, but Hotline editor Chuck Todd argues that "the party may not have another realistic shot at getting the majority back until 2012." Todd's race-by-race analysis of the 2008 contested seats is interesting and plausible, although as he himself notes early forecasts had the Democrats gaining zero seats in 2006. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 15, 2006 13:03
Charles Barkley May Run for Alabama Governor in 2010
NBA legend Charles Barkley has told an approving crowd in his home state that he is seriously considering running for governor of Alabama in 2010. Charles Barkley, declaring himself a Democrat, said Tuesday he is seriously considering a run for governor of Alabama, maybe as early as 2010. The Leeds native and former Auburn University and NBA basketball star has teased ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 26, 2006 16:08
Election 2010: Harry Reid Loses Senate Seat
Sherman Frederick, publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal, is going out on a limb to predict that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will lose his re-election bid. In 2010. In 50-plus months, Nevada voters will march to the polls and replace Sen. Harry Reid, thus ending one of the longer, more powerful political runs in state history. When it ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 22, 2006 15:37
