Quote of the Day
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 14th, 2010 4:42 am by HL
Quote of the Day
“I have my hands full with this election. I’m not going to be a vice presidential or presidential contender. Just the fact that I’m addressing it embarrasses me.”
— Marco Rubio (R), quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, on conservatives urging him to run for president in 2012.
How Colorado Went from Red to Blue
Just published: The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care) by Rob Witwer and Adam Schrager.
The book looks at how Colorado Democrats flipped the solid red state in just ten years and provides fascinating insights into one of the most sustained and coordinated political efforts in recent history.
Independent in New England
“They make less of a ruckus than the tea party people, but independents in New England are brewing their own revolution,” Froma Harrop observes. “Third-party governors may have been elected elsewhere — Walter Hickel in Alaska (1990) and Jesse Ventura in Minnesota (1998) — but in New England, such candidacies have become almost routine.”
“Independents are making credible runs for governor in Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island. The strongest contender, Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee, is a former U.S. senator and former Republican. Polls show Chafee comfortably ahead of his likely Democratic and Republican rivals.”
“This regional trend preceded the tea party phenomenon. The U.S. Senate’s two independents are Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, both of whom caucus with Democrats. Connecticut’s former governor, Lowell Weicker, had been a Republican-turned-independent. And if elected, Eliot Cutler would be Maine’s third independent governor.”
