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The good news for the GOP comes in a new Gallup poll showing Republicans edging about Democrats ahead of 2010 — and independents breaking the elephants’ way:
Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup’s generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing [...]

Nightmare on Eighth Avenue.

Scroll down for updates…Palin endorses conservative Doug Hoffman…
From reader Barnaby, who sent back his crossed-out Republican solicitation forms with a “NO RINOS” sticky note for Newt Gingrich:

From reader K., a message to GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s office:
As you’ve hopefully figured out by now, your boss really stepped in it with the endorsement of this left-winger [...]

What up?!

Something horrible happened to Bill Sparkman, who worked part-time as a Census worker in rural southeastern Kentucky.
He was found dead. Tied to a tree. Preliminary tests show he died of asphyxiation.
But the “cause of Sparkman’s death is under investigation, and authorities have not ruled out suicide, an accident or homicide, said Kentucky state police spokesman [...]

Every few days I like to post something to remind us that, in spite of all the madness and stresses that may encompass our daily lives, we remain inexorably sane and grounded in comparison to some of the attention-starved, hypocritical, “phonier than the contents of bikini tops on Malibu beaches” Hollywood Left sect.
Today’s poster-boy for [...]

A looming Steele-workers strike?

(Design: Tennyson Hayes)
Blog pioneer Glenn Reynolds, author of “An Army of Davids,” has a nice overview of the Tea Party movement in the Wall Street Journal today. (We probably shouldn’t use the phrase “army of (fill-in-the-blank) anymore” — what with all the DHS warnings about “rightwing extremism chatter on the Internet” and “disgruntled military veterans” [...]

Keep an eye out for the Tea Party crashers tomorrow. If you have other example to add to the list, give me a holler:
1) From Code Pink Website:
Santa Monica Tea Party Wednesday, April 15th 2009 4:00–5:00 PM Santa Monica, CA
The Santa Monica Tea Party of 2009 and Tea Parties all across America are being organized [...]

“Craven squish.”

Scroll for updates…Steele non-apologizes to Limbaugh…No word on the “Nazi Germany”/GOP convention slur…

I said positive things about RNC chairman Michael Steele this weekend on Washington Journal (link here) and have covered his rise extensively.
Now, a word of friendly advice:
There’s nothing wrong with criticizing Rush Limbaugh. But if you are going to go on Obamedia [...]

I’ve dealt with the Left’s “self-hating” minority smear for so long that it bores me. It’s a testament to MSNBC liberals’ utter shallowness that they’ve dragged out the college sophomore-level attack against Michael Steele.
Allah’s got video.
Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the [...]

For those of you interested, the balloting is taking place on the Republican National Committee chairmanship.
Incumbent Mike Duncan just pulled out.
Lots of conservatives breathing a sigh of relief. But who will take over?
Hot Air is tracking. Stacy McCain is live at the RNC.
And up-to-the-second reports on Twitter. Just search #rnc or #rncchair. Or go [...]

Really?
He crumbled on the behemoth bailout.
He cuddled Nancy Pelosi on Al Gore’s global warming couch.
And he’s played footsie with Hillary Clinton on health care.
Is Newt Gingrich really the best choice for RNC chairman?
You tell me:

Should Newt Gingrich be RNC chairman?

Yes.

No.

Please put him out to pasture.

Doesn’t matter. I stopped giving $ to the RNC years [...]

The Gawker smear machine returns.

Fight the smears. Crush the smears.

Vanilla Dean.

“Show me that. I’ll be surprised to see that.”

Caution: Congress at work.

***update: a reader notes that the RNC chair has to be elected by GOP state chairmen (they meet in January)…are there any out there who are listening to conservatives and who will oppose Martinez?…A RedState blogger calls Martinez “the Harriet Miers of RNC chairs”…send your comments to info@gop.com***
Oh, well. Michael Steele has been passed up [...]

Well, isn’t this rich? Howard Dean is scolding the Maryland state Democratic Party for being too..white:
Saying Maryland Democratic leaders must do more to encourage black candidates so “we do not have another Michael Steele problem,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on Thursday criticized the state party’s lack of diversity on its recent winning tickets.
Speaking [...]

Three quick items–make that four:
1) Once again, I say good riddance to Lincoln Chafee:
Two days after losing a bid for a second term, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican.
Chafee lost to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in a race seen as a referendum on
President Bush and the GOP. On [...]

12:30am Eastern update. Unlikely, but not impossible.
11:50pm Eastern update:
52-46 65% of precincts
52 Cardin
46 Steele

***Bumping to the top…Just e-mailed the Steele campaign…spokesman Doug Heye reiterating Steele is NOT conceding…just told his supporters to hang in for a long night…also: Absentee ballots are almost 200,000 strong…***
Reports Kathryn Lopez.
Update:
Cardin 190,680 49%
Steele 188,124 49%
31% Reporting
Update 11:07 pm Eastern…
613 [...]

***Watch the vid***
Michael Steele is burning up the campaign trail and the airwaves. The GOP Senate candidate and Maryland Lt. Gov. took his clue-by-four to the Washington Post on Fox News Sunday. Responding to a WaPo editorial attempting to paint him as the “establishment” candidate, Steele upbraided the smug punditocracy with his trademark anti-establishment candor:
WALLACE: [...]

***1:00pm Eastern update: Cardin-Steele in a statistical dead heat…***
Here is a very telling campaign moment you won’t read about in the New York Times. Yesterday, Democrat Rep. Ben Cardin, the Senate candidate in Maryland, tried to rally black politicians to his side after GOP challenger Michael Steele won huge endorsements from black Democrats in liberal [...]

I’m blogging from the road (don’t worry, Bryan Preston is driving) on our way back from a Michael Steele campaign event. We’ll have an interview with him posted tomorrow at Hot Air. The GOP candidate was endorsed by a passionate, bipartisan group of pastors–several of whom made a point of declaring “I am a registered [...]

Real Clear Politics makes the call, dubbing Steele-Cardin in Maryland “The Most Important Senate Race.”

David Zucker is back with The Taxman Ad.
Michael J. Fox is back. First, Missouri. Now, Maryland.

Michael Steele: Smeared again
When I first read that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, had apologized for accusing GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele of “slavishly” supporting the GOP, I thought it might be a case of political correctness run amok.
I have criticized his unhinged Democrat attackers before for their obnoxiously over-the-top racist comments. Initially, I [...]

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics has a primary round-up. It’s election day in Arizona, Minnesota, Maryland, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, plus D.C.’s got a mayoral vote.
All eyes are on Providence. Can conservative Stephen Laffey unseat the Bush-bashing “mooooderate,” GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee? The BBC is biting its [...]