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MIDDAY ROUNDUP Reports out Minnesota are cause for optimism among liberal bloggers today, while conservatives buck up Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) a day after he took heat from the right for refusing to endorse Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) for president in 2012. Also, bloggers contemplate whether a TV sketch poking fun at a governor’s disability went too far. Considering favorable decisions by a state board last week and a review by the Associated Press of challenged ballots, Democrat Al Franken has an opportunity to make up ground in Minnesota’s contested Senate race, Senate Guru contends. It looks like the election’s inevitable lawsuits will ...
John Wellington Ennis: Ken Blackwell for RNC Chair
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
It's not often that you will see the same endorsement on Townhall.com as on the Huffington Post, so let's savor this in the newfound era of post-partisanship.
J. Kenneth Blackwell, the former Secretary of State of Ohio whose administration of the 2004 election made Katherine Harris look like Mary Tyler Moore, is aggressively pushing to become the next chair of the Republican National Committee when its 168 members convene in 2009 to figure out how to pull their party out of the deep, dank hole they have dug themselves into. And I for one support his selection wholeheartedly.
I have spent a tremendous amount of time studying ...
Blackwell's Back
The American Spectator —
For most of the past decade and a half, the Ohio Republican
Party's leadership was divided into two camps. There were the
tax-and-spend Republicans who built solid GOP majorities
throughout the state only to fritter them away through scandal,
sclerosis, and a lack of economic solutions. And then there was
Ken Blackwell, the government-cutting conservative thorn in the
state party establishment's side.
There was no love lost between the dominant faction and the odd
man out. Blackwell was a persistent critic of Republicans in the
mold of George Voinovich and Bob Taft, whom he accused of
"campaigning like Ronald Reagan and ...
