RACE OF THE DAY: Texas-17

Obama charges up young voters at concert/rally
Washington — Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an "enthusiasm gap" among Democrats. "I'm back here today just in case you've forgotten what it feels like to change the country," Obama called out to a sold-out crowd of 3,000 at a Democratic National Committee Fundraiser at DAR Constitution Hall. "It was always going...

Not a bad return on a costly investment
NOT A BAD RETURN ON A COSTLY Investment.... Whether one approves of 2008's financial industry Bailout or considers it the worst piece of Legislation in American history, there's one thing we can all be very glad about: its Price Tag . Even as voters rage and Candidates put up ads against Government Bailouts, the reviled mother of them all -- the $700 Billion lifeline to banks, Insurance and auto companies -- will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that cost, and could conceivably earn...

In tight race for Texas governor, a few voting blocs stand out
In tight race for Texas Governor, a few voting blocs stand out 12:41 AM CDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010 By THEODORE KIM and JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] [email protected] Texans are bucking tradition in the matchup between Republican Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White. Women, Hispanics, Young urbanites and upbeat voters are highly sought-after in Elections, and most tend to lean Democratic. Elections 2010 Voter Guide: Compare Candidates for Texas...

TARP Draws to a Close Next Week, With Lower Costs Than Thought
After countless angry political speeches and the threat of economic collapse, the Government's $700 Billion Bailout of banks, Insurance Companies and auto Companies draws to a close Sunday - and it will likely cost only a fraction of what was expected. It will be years before it is possible to produce exact figures related to the Bailout, which encompassed everything from Mortgage finance colossuses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to auto company General Motors. Still, Treasury Secretary Timothy...

It's the candidate, not the party, that matters most to young voters
It's the Candidate, not the Party, that matters most to Young voters 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010 Theodore Kim Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory energized Young voters like no Candidate in recent memory. If Cameron Kinvig has his way, this time they'll line up for Rick Perry. 'Young People don't necessarily say: 'I'm a Republican or I'm a Democrat,'' says Cameron Kinvig, 27. 'People want to know more about the Candidates.'"> G.J. McCARTHY/DMN 'Young People ...

Towey's Hypocritical Hooey: Bush 'Faith Czar' Complains About Politicization Of White House Faith-Based Office
Under James Towey, the White House faith-based office was used to promote Republican Candidates in tight House and Senate races. James Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush, had an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal recently carping because President Barack Obama has used his administrations faith-based offices to let Americans know about the New Health-care law. Towey says if he had politicized his...

Obama at Fundraiser: 'People ... Can Make a Difference'
ABC News' Ann Compton reports: In twin Democratic Fundraisers in Washington, President Obama helped the party raise an estimated $1.75 million as he urged party faithful to get energized for the congressional Elections in which Democrats could lose significant majorities. This was never going to be easy, the president told 50 Donors at a candlelit dinner in the home of his former aide Linda Douglass. But ... when People come together, they can make a difference....

Swing Women Voters & The Midterms
As we hurtle toward the Midterms, campaign-watchers are beginning to speculate whether women hold the key to the next House majority. Recent press stories, current Public polling, and our own recent work, suggest swing women voters engage with politics differently than we might think. The political language we speak in Washington is simply not spoken by the voters who ultimately tip the scale in close races. My firm, Momentum Analysis, along with Neil Newhouse and Alex Bratty of the...

Many Hispanic voters fed up with the way Perry handles issues
Many Hispanic voters fed up with the way Perry handles issues 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010 Jessica Meyers Jesse Garcia can't get enough of Bill White's ads. Gov. Rick Perry has 'earned a failing grade on Hispanic issues,' says Jesse Garcia, who is enthusiastic- ally backing Democratic challenger Bill White in next month's election. "> REX C. CURRY/Special Contributor Gov. Rick Perry has 'earned a failing grade on Hispanic issues,' says Jesse Garcia, who is enthusiastic- ally...

White House Eyes Youth Vote Ahead Of Midterms
The White House is trying this week to re-energize College Students and Young voters who played a big role in President Obama's Election two years ago. Polls show they still support him and the Democrats, though not by the record margin they did in 2008. Obama held a huge rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other administration officials — including Vice President Joe Biden, who went to Penn State — have fanned out across the country as well. Young People — voters...

Progressive Breakfast: House Stands Up To China
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what Progressives need to affect Change on the kitchen-table Issues families face: jobs, Health Care, green Energy, Financial Reform, affordable education and Retirement security. House Puts Pressure On China House passes China currency crackdown Bill. NYT: "The House of Representatives sent an unusually confrontational signal to the Chinese leadership on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to give the Obama Administration expanded authority...

Two years and billions later, was bank bailout worth it?
Washington — A wildly unpopular Government rescue program credited by Economists with preventing another Great Depression will go out of business Sunday, two years to the day it was created. On Oct. 3, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as the Bank Bailout bill, loses authorization to make new expenditures. From that point forward, TARP will be in Wind-down mode, although much of money lent out already has been repaid — at a profit for Taxpayers. Originally envisioned as a...

Rahm Emanuel leaves the White House
First a bit from my Reuters Breakingviews column on the departure of Rahm Emanuel: On a West Wing organizational chart, the profane and pugilistic Emanuel was Obamas tough-guy bouncer, controlling the flow of people and information into the Oval Office. He was — as a humorous name plate in his Office read — the Secretary for Go [Expletive] Yourself. But Emanuel was much more. He was Obamas economic consigliere, virtual shadow Treasury Secretary, and de facto Prime...

Possum-throwing at NZ school slammed
Jack Beatson, 11, throws a dead possum at the Colyton School possum count gala. Photo: Warwick Smith The SPCA plans to talk to a rural Manawatu School after receiving complaints about a possum throwing contest. Last week, the Fairfax Media-owned Manawatu Standard ran pictures of the Children and parents at Colyton School participating in the contest, in which pupils grabbed possum carcasses by the tail and lobbed them through the air to see how far they could toss them. In Australia, the...

Fuel-Efficiency Targets Head Higher
By SIOBHAN HUGHES And SHARON TERLEP As the U.S. Government on Friday urged auto makers to offer car and light truck fleets that average up to 62 miles a gallon by 2025, Government-owned auto maker General Motors Co. said it was speeding production of a new line of big SUVs. GM, 61%-controlled by the U.S. Government after a Bailout and Bankruptcy restructuring, is racing to field new Chevrolet Tahoe and Cadillac Escalade SUVs by 2014, just a year after the company plans to debut new pickup...

Newspaper Roundup for Friday, October 1, 2010

In the Texas governor's race, all eyes are on these voters
In the Texas Governor's race, all eyes are on these voters 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010 One month before the election, GOP Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic rival Bill White are firing up their efforts with new TV ads, policy speeches, online appeals and multicity campaign stops. In the end, it all comes down to energizing their biggest supporters. And, this season, several groups have emerged as key voting blocs that could swing the outcome, according to a recent poll by The...

Business Interests Quietly Push for Tax Change
By John D. McKinnon Business interests once again are quietly talking up the idea of temporarily lowering the U.S. Tax barrier that keeps multinationals overseas profits parked offshore. The proposal would temporarily lower the Tax on overseas earnings brought back to the U.S. The idea is to encourage multinationals to bring home or repatriate hundreds of Billions of dollars that they now choose to leave parked overseas, often in offshore Tax havens. Under an earlier version of the idea,...

Democrats hope organizing will counter voters' apathy
Reporting from Las Vegas and San Francisco — On a recent Saturday, Ken Adams and Ronald Ramsey went door-to-door in Las Vegas, canvassing for Harry Reid . They carried a map of Democratic households and a set of poll-tested talking points, including the senator's achievements ("$540 million for a brand new VA Hospital") and jabs at Republican rival Sharron Angle, who spoke of privatizing the Department of Veterans Affairs (on Public Radio in May, if anyone asked). A woman in pajamas...

Open thread for night owls: Redistricting
Nick Baumann writes Secrets of the Census : The latest estimates of which States will gain and lose seats (and Electoral Votes) came out this week. The bottom line is that the results aren't good for Barack Obama and the Democrats. Solid Blue States New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey—states that have gone for the Democrat in every Presidential Election since 1992—are set to lose seven Electoral Votes. Washington is the only reliably Democratic...

Obama hails departing Rahm Emanuel, the #$&@)* tough guy who chokes up anyway (SFW)
Rahm Emanuel, the savyy, rough-talking top aide to President Obama , left his White House job today to return to what every Windy City pol regards as the Big Leagues, the nation's No. 3 city where he'll seek to become head of the long-dominant Democratic machine that he once served as a go-fer. He must register his candidacy by Nov. 22. Obama gave his longtime political friend a send-off full of bounteous praise (see full text and video below), and what sounded like a mayoral...

HOW ADOPTING the "NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE INITIATIVE" CAN STEAL an ELECTION 'BY HOOK' and 'BY CROOK"
UPDATE 09.29.10: Since I first posted this article on my blog over the summer, Washington, D.C. adopted the National Popular Vote. https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=DC 2010 jbjd Two (2) years ago, even before the DNC Services Corporation held their August 2008 Presidential Nominating Convention, I began posting this warning throughout the blogosphere for the benefit of my fellow citizens who were raising concerns as to whether Barack Obama, Presidential Nominee wannabe...

Alan Grayson: A National Embarrassment
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Democrats staying on message for election season, want to 'make it in America'
Related Articles If youre looking for a new drinking game to play this Election season, try taking a shot of tequila every time you hear a Democratic Candidate say the phrase make it in America from now until Nov. 2. Youll lose your liver by Columbus Day. House Democratic leadership doubled down on the Partys primary Campaign strategy Thursday, calling on Candidates to push a message that Democrats are — and have always been — focused on Jobs and The Economy. During a...

Ample evidence contradicts Murdoch's claim that "we are not anti-immigrant on Fox News"
Murdoch -- with a straight face -- tells Congress Fox News is "not Anti-Immigrant" Murdoch: "We are not Anti-Immigrant on Fox News." At a September 30 House subcommittee hearing on the Role of Immigration in Strengthening America's Economy, Murdoch testified in support of comprehensive Immigration Reform, endorsing a path to Citizenship for unauthorized Immigrants. Rep. Maxine Waters noted the disconnect between Murdoch's "basically descent proposal talking...