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Briefing - January 19, 2006

Posted at 7:33 AM on January 19, 2006 by Bob Collins

Making the rounds on a Thursday morning:

  • As indicated yesterday, Andrew Borene formalized his entry into the Senate race for District 41 (Edina). Al Franken hosted the event. They are graduates of the same private high school, apparently.

  • There are few better reads in politics than Charlie Cook's (The Cook Report) annual overview of the political landscape. Cook issued the 2006 version a couple of weeks ago but updated it on Tuesday. It spells out the various scenarios for party success.

  • A week after leading the Democratic brigade against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito over alleged ties to a club at Princeton with questionable practices, Sen. Ted Kennedy has cut ties to a club at Harvard that,you guessed it, bans women.

  • There's an interesting race going on in Ohio where Secretary of State Ken Blackwell reportedly has the early lead in the contest for governor, according to polls. City Journal has a profile of Blackwell:

    Blackwell has built his early lead not by tacking toward the center of this swing state but by running on an uncompromisingly conservative platform that’s won him grassroots support from both Christian groups and taxpayer organizations—a novel coalition that makes the old-boy network in his own Ohio GOP as uneasy as it makes the state’s Democrats, who have begun a “stop Blackwell” campaign.

  • The latest Gallup poll shows 67 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the job Congress is doing. President Bush has also slipped... again.

  • In Virginia a poll out today shows Democrat Mark R. Warner would clobber Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen in a presidential race in Virginia if an election were held today. Warner's job approval rating when he left office was 75 percent, by the way. Both Allen and Warner are angling for a presidential run in their party. Virginia has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964.

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