Joe Mastroianni (R) is running against Angelo Santabarbara (D) in New York’s 111th legislative district for an Assembly seat. The 2024 race is a rematch; Santabarbara defeated Mastroianni by 54%-43% in 2022 (see those results here). Santabarbara, 54, is a professional engineer; Mastroianni, a [...]
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Trump in a nursing home (video)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a frequent target of rightwing haters (because of his prominence on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 insurrection), is running for re-election in California, and his campaign decided to poke fun at Trump with this ad. Sure, it’s a partisan spoof. Whet[...]
Trump is poison for Washington GOP candidates
I don’t live in a GOP desert; roughly 1 of every 3 voters in my neighborhood is a Republican. But unlike in 2016 and 2020, I haven’t seen a Trump yard sign this year. I don’t see bumper stickers anymore, either, but that’s not surprising because they invite parking lot vandal[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 5:36 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake is incompetent
In late August, I wrote (here) that Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. Senator. Now, weeks away from the election, after she debated Rep. Ruben Gallego, her Democratic opponent, I’m confident she’ll take a shellacking. Lake blew the debate, refusing to admit she lost Arizona’s 2022 go[...]
October 8th, 2024 - 10:08 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ohio GOP candidates shun J. D. Vance
He’s an Ohio senator, and their party’s vice presidential nominee, but Ohio GOP candidates want nothing to do with him. Vance is “conspicuously absent” from billboards that “prominently feature” Trump, Bernie Moreno, and Derek Merrin, according to Politico (read s[...]
Will Florida voters ditch the GOP in 2024?
You wouldn’t think so, and Democratic strategists didn’t believe it, until they saw some shocking polling results. There are a million more registered Republicans than Democrats in the Sunshine State, where about 11 million people voted in 2020. They’ve elected a radically rightwin[...]
October 8th, 2024 - 1:45 am § in Politics, Republicans
First voting fraud of 2024 found!
After former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI; photo, left; bio here) retired from Congress, he bought a $1.6 million home in Coral Gables, Florida, claimed a “homestead” tax exemption on it, and registered to vote there. Then Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) decided to retire, too, and Rogers decided [...]
Will there be surprises in Senate races?
As of October 2024, Democrats have a 51-49 edge in the U.S. Senate, counting the 4 nominally “independent” senators who caucus with them. They are Joe Manchin (WV), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Bernie Sanders (VT), and Angus King (ME), of whom Sanders and King are reliable Democratic votes, and [...]
GOP rep is criticized for spreading lies about FEMA relief funds
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) has a track record as a conspiracy theorist. Now, she’s falsely asserting that FEMA relief funds were “redirected” to illegal immigrants (read story here). Rep. Cammack (photo, left) is an election denier who voted against certifying Biden’s 2020 elect[...]
September 27th, 2024 - 8:08 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Bachelor GOP candidate borrows friend’s family for campaign photos
Eugene Vindman, who’s running for Congress in Virginia, has an interesting opponent. Derrick Anderson doesn’t have children, and Republicans think that’s weird, so he borrows a friends’ wife and children for photo ops (see, e.g., photo below). He doesn’t lie by saying they&[...]