Looking to settle score, GOP seizes on Reid gaffe

Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was bullish on Barack Obama’s chances at becoming the first African-American president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

News Nuggets, 31 August 2009: Ken Buck, the people’s choice

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GRASSROOTS BUCK: Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck confirmed today that he is going forward with his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. The Denver Post reported Friday that he planned to drop…

Palin playing chicken with chicken-little GOP

Gov. Sarah Palin is toying with the reeling leaderless Republican Party. The months-long “feud” between Palin and two GOP campaign committees that asked her and then didn’t ask her to appear at a fund raising dinner tonight is reaching new heights of absurdity.

UPDATED: Attack Ads, Responses Mask Truth

One of two attack ads being aired in Colorado against Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall beats up on the 2nd District Congressman for introducing a bill nearly identical to one that a number of Republicans – including Colorado’s 4th District…

Attack Ad Substitutes Fear for Fact

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s first shot in the Mark Udall-Bob Schaffer U.S. Senate race turns out to be a blank.