Gary C. Jacobsonis a professor of political science and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1979... (wikipedia)
She is going to need all the help that she can get because it's a solidly Republican district.
One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.
If they win it, it's a huge symbolic victory. If they lose it, they can say they couldn't have won it anyway.
Here's an open seat that came up surprisingly at short notice, and anyone who ever thought about running for Congress sometime would say this is my time to take a shot at it.
The practice of speaking to an audience outside of the chamber is very old. These people are professional politicians, and they will not be swayed by others' oratory.
The question was whether he was going to get six years or 10 years. It looks like, to me, that the judge split the difference. Given his age, I don't think it will be a controversial decision.
Bilbray is the most prominent figure out there and so he will be everybody's target. Then, he has the distinction of being a lobbyist I would have been astonished if this was not used by his opponents.
This is getting up there in unusual territory. Usually, you don't have that many candidates putting up a lot of money. Usually, there are one or two putting up big money, not six or seven.
There's a lot of competition for a kid's time. You have the Internet. You have video games. Kids are being pulled in a lot of directions,
It seems like a bald-faced lie. The whole point of the initiative is to prevent the part of the budget that automatically gets spent on education from getting spent on education?. To argue this will create more money for schools is almost straightforwardly false.
It will help to define him as just another Republican, and that's not good for him in this state.
It's the best thing he has going for him right now, so he would be crazy not to use it. One of the things that drive presidential approval ratings is the economy. In his case, he hasn't yet reaped full credit for the last couple of years of pretty good economic growth.
It makes sense there would be a letdown after impeachment. People are tired of scandals and want peace and quiet.
It's got to be tempting to allow yourself to be flattered, buttered-up, helped, given favors and so forth. It's hard to refuse them unless you very consciously recognize that it's one of the permanent ethical challenges of that life.
If there is really any evidence of insider trading, then he's in very serious trouble, and so is his party. It adds another brick to Democrats' argument that Republicans are corrupt.
He behaved in such a way that it was almost certain that he would be discovered.
Gore has the economy on his side and the statistics he will be able to produce will be an impressive argument. I am expecting a very close election,