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Bill Hobbs points to a survey showing a surprising number of people who think that the shenanigans that surround elective politics should extend to the Supreme Court:

Tennessee voters going to the polls next month may be surprised to find that, in addition to congressional and state legislative race primaries they are asked to vote in a handful of judicial races. Well, not really "races," but "retention elections" for a handful of appointed state Supreme Court and appellate court judges.

Phil Ayres doesn’t see any difference between the supposed new populism of Senator Jim Webb and the old liberalism of Walter Mondale:

Phil Ayres notes a fundemental faiilure in our Democracy:

Phil Ayres with a totally original argument against voting for Bob Barr, the presumptive Libertarian nominee for President:

Mort Kondracke on some Hillary Clinton voters’ cultural aversion to voting for Barack Obama:

Yesterday, the Alexander campaign busted out with a poll that showed the former Governor and Senator sitting pretty in the run up to the November elections.

In the poll, 68 percent said they approved of Alexander’s performance as U.S. Senator with 17 percent disapproval.

The Mike Padgett campaign has reacted to a new poll that shows their candidate with a slight edge over his primary opponent for the US Senate Democratic nomination Bob Tuke:

John Rodgers reports that a new poll out from Ayres, McHenry & Associates commission by Lamar Alexander’s reelection campaign show the Senator with a 68 percent approval rating and a large gap separating him from his potential Democratic opponents in potential head to head contests.

The contest on the Democratic side reminds Phil Ayres of the motion picture Election (1999) starring Harpeth Hall alumna Reese Withers[bleep]: