I didn't know that. Open the live player, and then select the Live Senate debate.

I didn't like what I just heard. She was trying to make a joke about Coons "just being jealous he didn't get to be on Saturday Night Live," but seemed to be the only one laughing at it.

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The Hill: After forty years in Dem hands, Rep. Obey's seat in jeopardy

Or, as Lt. Col. Nathan R. Jessup might say, it's in danger.

-- Grave danger?

Is there any other kind?

Duffy leads Lassa 44-35, with 18 percent undecided. He is beating the Democrat among men and women, and the former cast member of MTV’s “The Real World” is winning 61 percent of the youth vote.

Independents strongly favor Duffy; he leads Lassa by 17 points among that group. Lassa leads only among voters above the age of 55, and she is down two points among female voters.

McClung Jumps To Small Lead Against Grivalja: She wins with men and independents; he wins with Fat Mobster Number Two from Scarface.

This must mean it's time for more white people to freak out and start with the racial epithets.

That's us! We always do that. We're silly.

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At Hot Air again.

54-33, according to SurveyUSA, with O'Donnell being decimated by women, especially, 58-25.

There is only some small amount of good news here: O'Donnell is, as I feared, simply not being considered as a credible candidate. So Coons wins by default, despite his history as a taxing, bankrupting Marxist.

See, this is what I try to tell people: The first hurdle, and the most important one, is the personal one, about credibility and basic appeal. Ideology comes in second (and is far weaker a factor, anyway).

I really wish people would stop insisting that people they know for a fact are nothing at all like them are in fact exactly like them when it comes to voting. Independents and moderates are not ideological. If they were, they'd be partisans.

But that said, O'Donnell is currently not being considered by most as a possible alternative. She's too weird, too unqualified, etc.

Well, tonight, she will stand on the same stage as Coons. If she seems just as credible and just as qualified as he does -- and I think she has a rather good chance at that -- many of those not even considering her at the moment will start considering her, and then will move on to phase 2 of candidate selection, ideology and issues.

O'Donnell benefits here as so many Republicans derided as stupid and crazy have before: The Democrats and media have made such claims about her basic incompetence that the bar for impressing people -- or at least saying, hey, she's not bad at all -- is set quite low.

They always do this. They can't help themselves.

But she will have to perform, not quite flawlessly, but she'll have to avoid any gaffes that will be endlessly re-run by the media determined to bake in the narrative of her non-seriousness.

And if she does that, she's got a shot at moving votes.

She will be benefited by something else: The public is interested in this race. It's nationalized. Her name has been dragged through the mud. So people will tune in, even if just to see a car wreck.

If there is no car wreck, then all of a sudden Coons has a credible opponent, and a competitive race, on his hands. And the public will not simply overlook his faults and give him the race by default, but will begin asking: Why is it again you want to raise everyone's taxes 50%? And how did you nearly bankrupt New Castle County even with taxes so raised?

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The NRCC is taking a second look (at Hot Air, Mary Katharine Ham writing).

It's pretty much set -- well, mostly -- that I'm going to kick off my GOTV stuff in Bielat's district, what I like to call "The Bielat Seat," which grotesque toad Barney Frank is currently squatting on. Newton, MA -- Saturday.

We are trying to get that website up for the GOTV effort. Should be up soon.

But I'll just preannounce here -- Newton, MA, for me, on Saturday.

If for some reason Bielat doesn't want me (and I am understanding about this: I bring baggage, and also, body lice), I'll contact Bill Hudnak about it.

I'm going to Boston on Friday so one of these lucky guys is going to get to have me stinking up their place.

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Nice Deb tells me this can happen.

Jacob Turk's opponent is Emanuel Cleaver, who is not only as socialist/progressive as you could possibly want (or bear), but who also happens to be the chief architect of SpittleGate and all those racial slurs which no one seemed to record as the most liberal members of the Democratic Caucus marched defiantly to show they were ready willing and eager to defy the will of the electorate.

Unbeatable? Not so: A private Rasmussen poll shows him down a mere 6-9 points. And he was down 20 a couple of months ago.

Jacob Turk: proud to be a Tea Partier.

Here he is mixing it up with some of those dirty tea-bagger types at a rally:

Daring to come within spitting distance of a Tea Partier.

Jacob Turk for Congress

Two things, Emanuel: 1. We're spitting mad but we don't spit.

2. You're fired.

I love how every time Democrats are in political trouble Angry White People start popping out of the shadows to throw epithets at them. Just when they need it the most.

Just so curious how this keeps on happening. Like, with Ruth McClung. She's about to beat Grivalja or whatever his name is, Fat Tarantula Face, and just as she's about to score that upset, the Secret Legions of Conveniently Unrecorded Epithet-Hurling White Racists suddenly decide to activate.

Well, that all started with Cleaver, didn't it? Well, it didn't start with him, but he sure knows which page to turn to in the playbook.

Let him know: We remember.

And we're not in a forgiving mood.

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One "reporter" even threatens to hit the guy asking uncomfortable questions.

Things get really interesting about a minute in.

There are two things at work.

First, the obvious bias of wanting to protect Emanuel from tough questions. Did you notice the question the ABC reporter shill asks at about 1:35? "What are you hearing in the neighborhoods?" Oooh, that's hard hitting. It would have been more honest and direct to simply say, "Rahm, please regale us with your prepared talking points".

The other factor in this is The Guild. Why this guy asking tough questions probably never even applied to journalism school (where they teach you to ask "what are you hearing in the neighborhoods") let alone graduated from one. This punk is a blogger and a radio show host. That's the enemy to these old line Dinosaur Media types. Unlike the real dinosaurs, they know their extinction is coming and they don't like it. Not one bit.

Added: If you're not familiar with the eligibility issues, here's the Chicago Sun Times' story which concludes Emanuel isn't eligible. Do you think these TV idiots would treat the Sun Times reporter that way?

The Guild Ãœber Alles!

And don't forget: CBS Radio in Chicago once threatened to stop covering Mark Kirk because they didn't like his attacks on mob banker and Obama buddy, Alex Giannoulias. They concluded that "AlexiÂ’s been pilloried."

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Sam Caligiuri is currently a State Senator representing Connecticut's 16th district. From his website:

In 2007, Sam was the only State Senator in any party, to vote against the state budget, arguing that it was wrong for the people of Connecticut because it exceeded the state spending cap and would lead to huge state deficits. Because of Sam’s principled stance against the state budget, newspapers praised him, calling him the “last defender” of the state spending cap and the “last sane man in Hartford.”

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From I Bleed Crimson Red, a story so erotic , so controversial it's been suppressed by the government.

Until now.

To prove his "inappropriate physical relationship," he's finally releasing the gold-standard proof of an affair: An affidavit that he typed up and then sent to the media.

TO: [redacted]
FROM: Will Folks, Carolina Cassanova; Expert Cocksman; Triple Degree Black Belt in Nine Styles of Erotic Martial Arts; Blogger
RE: I Tapped That

Dear [redacted],

Rumors continue to swirl about whether I tapped that. I do not know where these rumors of tapping spring from. (By the way, did you hear? I tapped that.)

Per our last discussion re: my having tapped that, please find enclosed one (1) affidavit affirming the substance of my previous statement, to wit, I tapped that.

Please let this serve as a memorization of our discussion. I will not wallow further in these rumors that I am starting, except to say, I tapped that. I tapped that well.

I tapped that,

Will Folks

PLEASE TREAT THIS COMMUNICATION AS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

BUT ALSO, TELL A FRIEND!

Among the revelations: They made out and stuff, always in parked cars (because that's what adults do, you know), conveniently never in a hotel where there at least might be a receipt.

In addition, Nikki Haley was very, very upset when Will Folks called it off. Yes, he called it off. Because he began tapping some other ass. And Nikki Haley asked him if she could please tell a third party, because she was so upset to lose him (and the the tapping), and really needed to talk about it with someone.

Now Folks may continue have no evidence that this happened, but then, Nikki Haley has no evidence it didn't happen.

Well, some evidence. She has this:

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The private retirement account system works well.

The unions' pension system never did. It wasn't a system so much as a scheme.

So, you know. Fair is fair.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee heard from hand-picked witnesses advocating the infamous "Guaranteed Retirement Account" (GRA) authored by Theresa Guilarducci.

(You can find the blistering interview with Guilarducci by radio talk show host Mark Levin in 2007 at the link).

In a nutshell, under the GRA system government would seize private 401(k) accounts, setting up an additional 5% mandatory payroll tax to dole out a "fair" pension to everyone using that confiscated money coupled with the mandated contributions. This would, of course, be a sister government ponzi scheme working in tandem with Social Security, the primary purpose being to give big government politicians additional taxpayer funds to raid to pay for their out-of-control spending.

Thanks to Dave in Texas.

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Oh, Chuckster, you scared me again with your desperate flailing and rumors about rumors. But I did not bite this time.

"Major."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and activist, announced he's supporting Crist's Senate bid at an event in Deerfield Beach Wednesday.

Last week, the Sierra Club announced it was co-endorsing Democrat Kendrick Meek and Crist.

Meek rejected that endorsement because he didn't like the "either A or B" nature of it.

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