As early voting got underway today in Georgia, we learned some unexpectedly pleasant news: Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Michelle Nunn leads “proud outsourcer” and GOP nominee David Perdue in the latest SurveyUSA poll. But not all the news is quite so peachy, because even as the first ballots are being cast, the fate of 40,000 […]

Today’s comic by Matt Bors is No boots about it: These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook October 14: Highly Respected Conservative Judge Rips “Voter ID” Laws–and the GOP–in Blistering Opinion, by Dartagnan GOP Male Rep. says female Democratic candidate Ann McLane Kuster is “UGLY As SIN” and can’t win!!!, by […]

Leading Off: • Governors, FL-Gov: Here’s an interesting fact: More money is going to gubernatorial contests than Senate races this year. The Center for Public Integrity reports that as of Oct. 6, $332.6 million has been spent on gubernatorial races compared to $282.6 million on Senate contests. The Wall Street Journal explains the disparity: No […]

Nina Turner, the Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state, has a new ad contrasting her priorities with those of incumbent Republican Jon Husted: The ballot box. Some dismiss it. Nina Turner has spent her life defending it. When you’re a first-generation college graduate, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the heart and soul of Ohio, defending […]

Volunteers in the MoveOn field office making calls to Iowa. Democrats could lose the Senate this year, simply because the pivotal races are almost all in red states that voted for Romney. If you don’t live in a state with a competitive race, this can feel very disempowering—given that control of the U.S. Senate will […]

Here’s a new one: “Many people were happy” before Obamacare, when their pre-existing health problems kept them from getting private insurance. That’s what Republican Tom Cotton said, anyway, in Tuesday’s debate with Sen. Mark Pryor in the Arkansas Senate race. Cotton said that the previous coverage for these folks, high-risk pools set up in some […]

Scott Walker The respected Marquette Law poll takes another look at Wisconsin’s gubernatorial contest, and they find things are as close as ever: Mary Burke (D): 47 Scott Walker (R-inc): 47 Marquette’s last poll from two weeks ago showed Walker leading 50-45. This new survey interrupts a small streak of polls that gave Walker a […]

Tuesday night I made calls from the comfort of my own laptop at home to South Dakota through MoveOn’s hub dialer for Democrat Rick Weiland. In this three-way race the difference could come down to just hundreds of votes. Before I tell you the nuts and bolts of the hub dialer (which, despite the inevitable […]

Not just pro-gun, but fervently anti-government. Again: The National Rifle Association is a far-right conservative organization whose corporate sponsors just happen to be gun companies. The spending underlines a broader shift by the NRA to step up support for Republicans at the expense of Democrats, in contrast to the past where it would back Democratic […]

Clearly they haven’t learned 2012’s real lesson If you are the Republican official in charge of making sure that your party’s nominees didn’t end up becoming the next Richard Mourdock or Todd Akin, what would you do? Yeah, yeah, I know—you’d look in the mirror and wonder where your life went wrong. But apparently in […]