Who's a libertarian Democrat?
Sparked by the discussion on libertarian support for the Democratic Party at Cato Unbound and the new study from the Cato Institute that argues that roughly 13% of the voters are libertarian-leaning, I...
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ID-Gov: Schweitzer Comes to Town
Everyone's favorite governor was on hand today for the official release of yesterday's shocker poll numbers. Schweitzer noted that it had been 20 years in Montana since a Democrat had been elected...
View ArticleID-Gov, ID-01: The M-D numbers
Mcjoan earlier blogged the Idaho Statesman story on the polled it commissioned from M-D on the state's hot races. Bizarrely enough, the story didn't include the actual numbers. It may have been the...
View ArticleID-Gov: Race a Toss Up
Yes, it's freakin' Idaho. The Cook Report has upgraded this race from Lean Republican toss up. I am pleased to state here, on the record, that I was completely wrong about our chances to take the...
View ArticleMy Ultra Conservative Idaho parents are voting Democrat
The backlash against the G.O.P. is incredible. To think that it could spread to uber-red Idaho is just plain mind boggling. My mom and stepdad live in Nampa, Idaho -- one of the most conservative...
View ArticleIDAHO--Great Poll Numbers!
Great New Poll Numbers from Idaho, over at Swing State Project. Boise NBC affiliate KTVB has released a poll with good numbers for Jerry Brady and Larry Grant. ID-Governor Jerry Brady (D): 41...
View ArticleIdaho to allow killing of endangered wolves
as a animal lover this appalls me as much as President McDoodypants' escapades in the iraq cauldronBOISE, Idaho - Idaho's governor said Thursday he will support public hunts to kill all but 100 of the...
View ArticleMore Proof of Conservative Collapse in the Rocky Mountain West
In 2005, I wrote a national op-ed for Knight Ridder newspapers that showed how when right-wing congressional politicians return home as governors from the fantasy land known as Washington, D.C., they...
View ArticleAttention Democrats: The West Is A Heckuva Lot More Colorful Than Red vs. Blue
From the Rocky Mountain West's Department of Shifting Politics comes dispatches out of Boise and Ft. Collins that show, once again, how fractured the old Republican coalition has become, and how many...
View ArticleThe Butch gets to replace the bottom
This will be a short diary, because I am proofing a more important one to be posted soon.
View ArticleID-Sen: Tied up in knots
The Idaho GOP's knickers are in almost as much of a twist as Mitch McConnell's over Larry Craig's recalcitrance, with a couple of key exceptions: Craig's mountain west colleagues, who seems...
View ArticleMore Republican Senate retirements?
Good catch by Leftist Addition, catching ID Gov. perhaps saying too much to Newsweek:We've now got five Republicans [retiring or resigning], and I guess there's a few more that may make a statement,...
View ArticleThere's Something About Larry: Craig to do interview with Matt Lauer
He's resigning! He's not resigning!He's leaving! He's not leaving! And now...Larry and Suzanne Craig agree to primetime interviewSen. Larry Craig will sit down with Matt Lauer of NBC News for what is...
View ArticleCOLUMN: Dems Confronting the Anti-Tax Hollow Men
Note: If you are tired of major issues like this getting no coverage in the face of a media blackout and thus you would like to see my nationally syndicated column in your local paper, see the bottom...
View ArticleIdaho schedules "terrorist wolves" hunt
Cowboy-hatted Ken Salazar at Interior delisted the grey wolf from federal protection in Idaho and other states. Bad move. Now the thrill seekers and trophy idiots are flocking to Idaho to git em a...
View Article"Obama Tags"
Idaho joins the ranks of the Kansans and California terrorist lovers with an even more chilling entry. Here's what passes for "sarcasm" with Idaho Republicans. This is Rex Rammell, who's primarying...
View ArticleUpdate on Idaho Republican candidate for governor, Rex Rammell wants to hunt...
I am writing today with sadness over, not just the stupid comment by dumb and dumber (Rex Rammell and some unknown woman) but the lack of reaction here in my own home town. By now everyone knows, even...
View ArticleIdaho GOP calls Rammell's comments "criminal"
And pretty badly too--every major political figure in the state.
View ArticleA Little Tenther Inconsistency
Has anyone else noticed that two of the conservative responses to health care reform are directly opposed to one another?I know, it’s not exactly a revelation that conservative ideas tend not to work...
View ArticleIdaho to sue federal government on HCR mandates.
Idaho governor Butch Otter is trying to garner attention as he is wont to do. He was one of the first governors who came out with both barrels against the stimulus and finally agreed to "hold his nose"...
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