Mississippi Gets the Change They Deserve
Last night -- in a special election -- Democrats picked up another House seat in yet another distract that has been reliably Republican for over a decade.New Jersey New York
John McCain's East River Tour
John McCain is taking a ferry ride down the East River from New York City to Highland, New Jersey. Sounds like a great photo op, no? Turns out, McCain's tour will pass a series of landmarks he opposed funding for or even voted voted against.Arizona
Arizona Republic: McCain Not a Maverick
The Arizona Republic declared that in tight votes, John McCain is "not a 'maverick.'" An examination of the presumptive GOP nominee's voting record in the Senate since 1999 found that "when it matters most, he seldom bucks the party." John McCain: The Bush president Bush Republicans have been waiting for.Michigan
Michigan Fundraiser Highlights McCain's Radical Friends
What the invitation to a John McCain fundraiser does not say, however, is that Rakolta and Liggett were two of the key backers of an organization that helped finance an ad that compared Democrats to Adolf Hitler in the 2006 election. Rakolta and his wife contributed $10,000 to a group called Voice the Vote, which used the money to buy a newspaper ad that compared Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and a procession of Democratic presidents to Hitler.Florida
Oppenheimer's Straight Talk on John McCain
Columnist Andrés Oppenheimer ripped John McCain over his embrace of the right-wing on immigration in Sunday's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer, an award-winning journalist, writes that following an interview with the presumptive GOP nominee that McCain is "moving steadily backward" on immigration.Florida
Democrats Expected to Surpass Republicans in Registered Hispanics
The Tancredo Effect: For the first time, the number of Hispanic Democrats in the state is expected to exceed the number of Hispanic Republicans. The Florida secretary of state is expected to release the month's voter registration figures to the...Join Senator John Edwards & Elizabeth Edwards in London!
Save the Date: June 2, 2008 ... more details to come!Join Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat in Brussels!
Please mark your calendars for a DexPat event with Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat on May 16th in Brussels. Look for an invitation soon. For more information, please contact Stephanie Cherkezian at CherkezianS@dnc.org or +1-202-863-8170.Indiana
DNC Statement on Indiana Voter ID Law Ruling By the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court acknowledged that "The record contains no evidence of any such [impersonation] fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history," and acknowledged the law's burden on the elderly, low-income voters and other classes of voters covering hundreds of thousands of Indiana citizens. Yet this Court, ignoring the realities of life for the less affluent and powerful of the state's citizens, shrugged off these burdens and found that the law should stand.North Carolina
Doing Everything He Can
John McCain was asked about the North Carolina GOP's racially divisive ad on the Today Show, to which he replied: "I have done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue."...Indiana Mississippi North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Vermont Wyoming
Democratic Voter Registration Off the Charts
Democrats have turned out in record numbers across the country and voter registration figures are through the roof. Democrats increased their numbers in the past seven primary states by 1 million voters while Republican voter registration figures "mainly ebbed or stagnated," reports the Washington Post.Link to this Article · Comments (5) · Go to the Indiana blog · Go to the Mississippi blog · Go to the North Carolina blog · Go to the Ohio blog · Go to the Pennsylvania blog · Go to the Rhode Island blog · Go to the Texas blog · Go to the Vermont blog · Go to the Wyoming blog
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McCain's Idea of Doing All He Can? Sending an Email
Asked about the North Carolina Republican Party's racially divisive ad on the Today Show this morning, John McCain said "I have done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue." So far, McCain's idea of doing "everything I can" includes just one thing: sending the state party chair an email.North Carolina
Question of the Day
Josh Marshall asks: If John McCain can't stand up to the North Carolina GOP swift-boat freaks, how can he stand up to al Qaeda?...Alabama
Wilcox County, Alabama
John McCain is touring through areas with a history of economic and social justice problems (which Republicans traditionally ignore) to portray the presumptive GOP nominee as "not that kind of Republican." He will visit places Republicans actively vote against the...North Carolina
Dean: McCain Needs to Show Real Leadership on North Carolina Ad
Given his ties to state Republican leaders, if McCain is serious about making sure this ad never airs, he should have no trouble making it happen. If not, McCain should return their contributions, remove them from his campaign committees, and strip the state chair from her role on the GOP's convention committee.Pennsylvania
PA Exits: 9 in 10 Believe U.S. in Recession; Bush: "We're Not in a Recession"
On the same day President Bush spoke at an economic summit in New Orleans and stated the "we are not in a recession," Pennsylvania exit polls showed nine in ten voters believed the U.S. was in a recession.Ohio
John McCain: Way Out of Touch in Ohio
In Youngstown, Ohio today, John McCain, "standing before a nearly shuttered factory pocked with broken windows," tried to sell his failed Bush economic ideas but failed miserably, showing just how out of touch he is with the issues facing America's families. McCain, the ninth richest member of Congress, even went as far as comparing his presidential primary campaign to the struggles of workers hit hardest by the Bush economy in Rust Belt cities such as Youngstown where jobs have left and people are struggling to find work.Pennsylvania
Two Historically GOP PA Counties Flip Democratic
In Pennsylvania two historically Republican counties in voter registrations flipped Democratic ahead of the March 24 deadline. The registration deadline was March 24, and tens of thousands of new registrations flooded in, from both new voters and party switchers. Elections...New York
Republicans Struggling to Find Candidates
Republicans are struggling to find candidates at the Congressional level this cycle and, in particular, coming up empty-handed in New York. From the New York Times this morning: Heading into this election cycle, Republican leaders in Washington identified dozens of...Colorado
CNMI: A "Successful" Guest-Worker Program?
GOP Senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer was touting his support for a guest-worker program while discussing his views on immigration. However, you will never guess the specific guest-worker program he pointed to: He pointed to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S....Arizona
Must Read: "Arizona Blacks: Where's McCain?"
A report in the Politico today exposes McCain's disconnect with the African American community in his home state just days after McCain acknowledged having made 'a mistake' when he opposed making MLK Day a holiday. According to the report, despite having represented Arizona over the past quarter century McCain has not established a strong relationship with the state's black community.Michigan
Joint Statement from DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Senator Carl Levin, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan DNC member Debbie Dingell and UAW President Ron Gettelfinger
"We are united in our commitment to doing everything we can to ensure that a Michigan delegation is seated in Denver this summer."Florida
Joint Statement from DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Florida Democratic Chair Karen Thurman and the Florida Congressional Delegation on Seating Florida’s Delegates
"We will continue to work towards a solution to ensure delegates are seated and logistics are in place for a Florida delegation in Denver."Vermont
Dean Statement on the Death of Violet Coffin
"From the day we first met nearly 30 years ago, I was impressed with how sensible and levelheaded Vi Coffin was, and how deeply she cared for her fellow citizens. Vi was a loyal Vermonter who single-handedly kept the State Democratic Party together during her tenure as Chairwoman, and whose work touched the lives of countless others. My thoughts and prayers are with her husband Ned and her family today, and I join them in mourning her loss."New York
Hundreds of Thousands Missing at the NRCC
Last month, news broke that the NRCC called the FBI on itself regarding some accounting irregularities that scared several House Republicans. In Thursday's New York Times, more details emerged as Christopher J. Ward, the former treasurer of the NRCC for...Florida New York
Big Wins in FL, NY
Yesterday there were a couple special elections -- in New York and in Florida.Ohio
McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and The Ohio Ballot
After casting himself as a "Maverick" in 2000, the new John McCain is walking in lockstep with President Bush, pandering to the right wing of the Republican Party, and embracing the ideology he once denounced. On the campaign trail McCain has callously abandoned many of his previously held positions, even contradicted himself, in a blatant attempt to remake himself into a candidate Republicans can accept in 2008. So just who is the real John McCain? The Democratic National Committee will present a daily fact aimed at exposing the man behind the myth. Today's McCain Myth: John McCain has not benefited from the FEC's matching funds program.Arizona
McCain Praised Renzi's Honesty and Integrity in 2006 Robo-Call
As was mentioned earlier, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Flagstaff, Ariz.) was indicted on a series of charges, including extortion, surrounding a land deal. It just so happens that Renzi and Republican presidential nominee John McCain are described by their local paper,...California
California Republicans Protect Yacht Owners from Sales Taxes
California Republicans successfully thwarted an attempt to close the tax loophole for yacht owners. (It was described in the Sacramento Bee as "a loophole that allows purchasers of boats, motor homes and airplanes to take possession outside the state's boundaries...Texas
