Screenshot from the Agenda Project’s ad. A new ad running in states with tight Senate races blasts Republicans for the budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and bio-disaster preparedness programs in hospitals. The ad cuts in testimony from government healthcare officials with dozens of clips of Republicans demanding […]

Georgia Republican David Perdue’s pride in his outsourcing career was screaming out for a campaign ad, and Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn has obliged. The ad is composed almost entirely of news coverage laying out the situation—and it’s damning enough on its own. Newscaster: David Perdue is defending his career amid an outsourcing report. Newscaster: David […]

There have been elections where the issues are murky, the decisions difficult, and the sides unclear. There have been elections where the ranks of Democrats and Republicans have so overlapped in their positions that you had to choose carefully among your options. This is not one of those elections. This is, quite easily, the simplest […]

Help us elect the real South Dakotan, this guy, Rick Weiland Via Mike Lux, let’s hop in the way-back machine to 1998, when ex-Sen. Larry Pressler was looking at all his options and thinking that his best bet was definitely not returning to South Dakota. No, he was ready to commit himself wholly to D.C. […]

Virginia Democrat John Foust is out with an ad hitting his opponent, Barbara Comstock, for just one of the ways she embodies the worst of the Republican party: having pushed three anti-union bills through the Virginia state legislature without disclosing that she was being paid by an anti-union organization for which those bills were priorities. […]

How Joni Ernst wants you to see her. Joni Ernst has been running for Iowa Senate as the kind of Republican woman who’s tough enough to castrate hogs and serve in the National Guard, but also a nice-mom-next-door. Basically Sarah Palin’s image circa 2008, minus the glamour and with hog castration taking the place of […]

In the first and likely only Kentucky Senate debate, Mitch McConnell continued to offer his nonsensical word salad when it comes to Obamacare and his state’s implementation of it, Kynect. Calling Kynect, just “a website,” McConnell reiterated his position that Obamacare should be repealed. “Kentucky Kynect is a website. It was paid for by a […]

I spend a lot of time thinking about the problems outlined in this cartoon. Concentrating prosperity into just a few ever-growing cities seems ridiculous and unsustainable. Having just traveled from Austin to San Francisco and back, it’s interesting to compare how this dynamic is playing out in both places. At least SF has the BART. […]

Last night, Stephen took a look at a video of a duckling following a cat dressed like a shark riding a Roomba the midterm elections. Full video after the jump.