congressional races

From the Hill:

Nielsen Media Research says Obama ads are running more than two to one v. McCain in the key battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Between October 6 and October 22, Obama ran 150% more ads (53,049 v. 21,106) than McCain, including 240% more ads in Florida at 15,887 v. McCain’s 4,662.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports a Washington political expert’s take on the U.S. Senate race in Tennessee:

(Editor’s Note:  This is a reprint of an email about a post by Erick Erickson at RedState, ‘Is It OK to Vote Against a Candidate Because of His Race?’  Erick is not a ConserVOLiance Author

From the press release:

Vin Weber, former Minnesota congressman and one of Washington’s most respected political strategists, will join the Vanderbilt University faculty as an adjunct political science professor.

From Daniel Potter:

Republicans who have been losing their national brand name as the party of smaller government and low taxes, have relied on the very group they are often embarrassed of to propel them across finish lines: social conservatives. But as I’ve written about many times before, if a Democrat takes those issues from us, uh-oh….he can win.

Dick Cheney joins the fray in a tough race for a conservative district in Mississippi which serves part of suburban Memphis:

James Antle discusses the quixotic presidential campaigns and congressional races of political oddities Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul:

Voters tend not to like it when their congressman launches a quixotic bid for the White House. Such a campaign helped cost Bob Dornan his House seat in 1996.