Below The Beltway

So, its over. Election Day has come and gone and the carnage is clear. The GOP lost, there’s no other way to put it and any pundit who tells you otherwise is drinking the Kool-Aid straight from the White House fridge.
I’ll have some further thoughts about why the GOP lost later today, as well as [...]

One of the reasons I’ve been quiet for most of the past month is that there has been only one thing to talk about — the 2006 mid-term elections — and there really isn’t anything good to say about them.
Despite clear evidence that they will lose one or both Houses of Congress, some Republicans seem [...]

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Senate race between George Allen and James Webb has become one of the dirtiest in recent memory, now it looks like it’s having an impact on the image of Virginia as a whole:
RICHMOND — Virginia is taking it on the chin these days.
Its legislature has become synonymous [...]

There is a Republican candidate in Connecticut’s November General Election for Senate, put it doesn’t look like alot of Republicans will be voting for him:
Facing Senator Joseph I. Lieberman?s independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to [...]

The 2006 elections are fast approaching and the Democratic Party seems to have figured out who its running against. The problem is, they appear to be running not against Republicans, but against the world’s largest retailer.
DES MOINES, Aug. 16 ? Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, delivered [...]

In January, I wrote about former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann running for Governor of Pennslyvania. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like his campaign is going well.
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — Former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann didn’t put so much as a dent in Gov. Ed Rendell’s lead among Pennsylvania voters over the past two months, [...]

Its time to give out the first-ever Below The Beltway political endorsement, because Jack Bauer is running for the Senate:
Jack Bauer is running and Bauer06 is the “netroots” effort to elect him to represent both Connecticut and New York in the US Senate. That’s right both Connecticut and New York as a write-in candidate for [...]

While Connecticut Democrats may have gone off the deep end, you can’t say the same thing about voters in the Atlanta area, because Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was defeated yesterday in a runoff primary:
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Rep. Cynthia McKinney is controversial and outspoken, independent and unrepentant, all of which have endeared her to a [...]

After the polls showed him far behind challenger Ned Lamont, it was pretty much inevitable, but yesterday Senator Joe Lieberman was defeated in the Connecticut Democratic primary:
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 8 — In a stark repudiation, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) narrowly lost the Democratic Senate primary here Tuesday night, falling to antiwar candidate Ned Lamont [...]

It isn’t even Labor Day, but the Virginia Senate race is already looking like it will turn out to be a nasty one.
RICHMOND — The campaign staff of Sen. George Allen (R) describes his Democratic opponent, James Webb, as a Hollywood elitist running a “joke” of a campaign. They call him “Junior.”
Webb’s team implies that [...]