Leading Off: • IA-Sen: On the GOP side, Freedom Partners continues to hammer Democrat Bruce Braley on his “farmer from Iowa” gaffe. The spot features a husband and wife arguing that Braley hates all farmers. The NRSC also goes after Braley, resurrecting a story from a few months ago in which Braley allegedly threatened to […]

Joni Ernst: Mother. Soldier. Anti-choice extremist. Unlike Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner, Iowa Republican Joni Ernst is not denying that she supports fetal personhood bills. Ernst has supported a personhood bill in the Iowa state legislature, and she’s promising to do the same if elected to the United States Senate: “I will continue to stand by […]

I don’t know who on Iowa Rep. Steve King’s staff convinced him to clam up these last weeks, but they deserve not just Steve King’s eternal thanks, but ours as well. It’s been a rare treat. Alas, the fact that King has been keeping mum doesn’t mean he’s stopped campaigning—he’s just been outsourcing the insanity. […]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Let’s play simple answers to to naive questions: “Will the Ebola crisis play a role in the fall’s elections?” When have Republicans ever, ever resisted the opportunity to fearmonger? When have they ever resisted Terruh!!!! Case in point, Thursday’s hearing about Ebola panic, during which a prevalent theme emerged from […]

The overturning of Arkansas’ voter ID law could help Sen. Mark Pryor since voters who favor Democrats are more likely to be harmed by such laws. The Arkansas Supreme Court confirmed the decision of an appeals court Wednesday and overturned the state’s strict voter ID law on a 7-0. Since the grounds for reversal related […]

Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is In defense of the ‘R’ word: If we turn out, we win. Chip in $3 to help Get Out The Vote for Daily Kos’ endorsed candidates: Applications for initial unemployment compensation fall to 14-year low: For the the week ending Oct. 11, seasonally adjusted initial claims fell to 264,000, […]

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley makes a strong case for her state still being the worse Carolina with this entry, in which she says that the state continuing to fly the Confederate battle flag on statehouse grounds is fine because none of the CEO’s she’s talked to have a problem with it. “What I can […]

In his run for Senate, Rep. Cory Gardner has settled on the lie that the federal personhood bill he cosponsored is not actually a personhood bill. It would appear that Colorado reporters are getting sick of that lie. In a recent debate between Gardner and Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, a moderator had this rather pointed […]

Tom Cotton is adamant about one thing—repealing Obamacare. But what the Republican running for Senate in Arkansas has avoided answering during this whole campaign is just what he’d do for all the people who gained coverage through the law, and through the state’s private option Medicaid expansion, after repeal. David Ramsey at the Arkansas blog […]

If you look up the word painful in the dictionary, you get this: Democrat Charlie Crist’s closing statement in last night’s Florida gubernatorial debate is standard run-of-the-mill feel good politician blather. But then we get to Rick Scott, speaking with his peculiar robot accent. I want to thank my wife for standing by me, through […]