Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/15/2008 — Illinois GOP Ad: "You Deserve A Special Election" The Illinois Republican Party has this new TV ad calling for a special election to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, rather than allow Democratic Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn to make an appointment if Rod ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/11/2008 — Poll: A Majority Of Republicans Approve Of Obama's Performance The new AP-GfK poll shows 73% of Americans approve of Barack Obama's performance so far as president-elect -- with 54% of self-identified Republicans giving him a thumbs-up, too. ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/12/2008 — Crucial Hearing In Minnesota Senate Race Today The state canvassing board in Minnesota is meeting at 10:30 a.m. ET to decide two crucial issues: Whether to count the mounting number of absentee ballots that appear to have been rejected because of ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/22/2008 — Today: Possible New Vote Numbers From Minnesota Minnesota could potentially finish today the process of counting the ballots that either campaign had challenged during the course of the recount but later withdrew the challenges, taking them out of ...

Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/23/2008 — Today: Obama Team To Release Blago Report The Obama transition team is expected today to release their internal report on staff communications with Rod Blagojevich and his office, and which is reported to absolve Rahm Emanuel and other staffers from ...

Obama Wouldn't Play
dailykos.com 12/9/2008 — When the news of the arrest of Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich broke, it took the RNC less than an hour to try and tie him to President-elect Barack Obama, an attempt so pitiful that even the Washington Times wasn't buying it. Apparently the RNC didn't bother to read the Criminal Complaint .  ...

Matt Lewis: Might Want to Re-Think
townhall.com 12/10/2008 — ... the notion that Governors should be empowered to appoint U.S. Senators.

Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago
mediamatters.org 12/13/2008 — To anyone who lived through the media feeding frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation's leading news organizations spent the better part of a decade destroying their own credibility by relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals, the past ...

TPMDC Morning Roundup
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/26/2009 — Obama Set To Allow Tighter Emissions Standards By States President Obama is expected today to clear the way for allowing California and other states to set their own emissions standards , something that the Bush Administration had previously ...

Rod Blagojevich Arrested: The Damage He Could Do
huffingtonpost.com 12/9/2008 — The arrest this morning of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has sparked intense discussion in the political universe over how great a taint his ethical follies will have both on the next Illinois Senator and Barack Obama. The governor, accused of ...

In scandal, risks for Obama (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/10/2008
Politico - At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the Rod Blagojevich scandal smelling like a rose. The prosecutor at a news conference seemed to give the president-elect a seal of approval, and the Illinois governor himself was caught on tape ...

Who are the mystery Senate candidates? — CNN Political Ticker 12/10/2008
It's unclear who Blagojevich was communicating with about the vacant Senate seat. (CNN) — According to prosecutors, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew all too well how much leverage he had as the only person who could appoint Barack ...

Obama calls for Blago to resign (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/10/2008
Politico - The AP reports on a fairly undramatic roll-out for a big piece of news:

RNC Chair 'outraged;' brings up Rezko — First Read 12/10/2008
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro In an interview with MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell , RNC Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan -- who is running for reelection to his RNC chair post -- continued his criticism of President-elect Obama for his lack of a ...

Governor’s Arrest Throws Senate Seat Into More Turmoil — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/10/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics. The Tuesday arrest of Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has put the open Illinois Senate seat in further turmoil as Democratic leaders seek to make sure Blagojevich plays no further role in filling ...