Byron York - In Illinois, GOP guns for Obama's old Senate seat
This race is enormously important for Democrats; losing Obama's old seat to Republicans just two years after the triumph of 2008 would be a serious embarrassment. But Obama may be a less important factor in this race than the legacy of Blagojevich. If Kirk wins -- and the last half-dozen polls here show him leading Giannoulias by between two and four points -- it will be because voters balked at giving the ex-governor's party another chance. (Bill Brady, the Republican candidate for governor, is also leading Blagojevich's Democratic successor, Pat Quinn.)
J.P. Freire - After NOW refuses comment on Gawker’s Christine O’Donnell sex smear, statement cheers O’Donnell’s loss, slams smear season is no different. Let me be honest: I look forward
NOW has repeatedly called out misogyny against women candidates, and this election to seeing Christine O’Donnell defeated at the polls, but this kind of sexist attack is an affront to all women, and I won’t stand for it.
Michael Barone - Why the US has turned against Obama
Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama’s Democratic party? It’s a question that must puzzle many in Britain who – Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem – welcomed Obama’s election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands. But now it appears that Obama’s party is about to take what George W Bush called a “thumping” in the mid-term elections on November 2.
Susan Ferrechio - Alaska race boils down to wristbands and scandal
Thirty-seven governors' seats are up for election Nov. 2, and Republicans have an edge in those races in much the same way they are dominating congressional contests. Political analysts believe Republicans may capture 30 of the nation's 50 governors mansions, six more than they now control.
The net outcome of the gubernatorial races could influence how much resistance the Obama administration faces from the states over initiatives like health care reform. They also will determine who controls the process of redrawing congressional districts in 2011 and who controls key battleground states during the 2012 presidential election.
Julie Mason - White House gains little from success in making groups an election issue
For weeks, Obama and his surrogates have been complaining that those groups are not required to report contributors even as they pour tens of millions of dollars into ads attacking Democrats. The result, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, is that 74 percent of voters are now concerned about outside groups with their own agenda influencing elections, and 72 percent are concerned about the lack of disclosure.
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