I tweeted my commentary on last night’s Massachusetts Senate debate between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren in real time, so no need to go much further on it. Basically you saw an incumbent Senator clearly behind in his own internal polling, so he decided to go hard negative. Warren wasn’t flustered by it and played [...]

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, a conservative paper, endorsed Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election over the weekend, saying that his removal from office “isn’t justified.” The Sentinel spends the rest of the editorial adding that Walker’s assault on collective bargaining went too far, primarily to “deal a harsh blow to a key Democratic constituency.” [...]

We saw more liberal candidates win across the board in primary elections last night, and a key endorsement could propel another to victory in the North Carolina Senate runoff. While Elaine Marshall won the primary over the DSCC-backed Cal Cunningham, she did not get the 40% necessary to avoid a second runoff. But the third-place [...]

OK, so we’re on to the endorsement for Jane Harman. And this is a crackup. CDP Chair John Burton has kind of lost control of the thing. More in a minute. Here’s the deal. Burton rushed the question on the endorsement to the floor, asked for whether there would be speakers on behalf of Winograd [...]

Marcy Winograd, the progressive primary challenger to Jane Harman in CA-36, gathered enough signatures again last night to force the question of a state party endorsement to the floor of the convention. This means that she will be able to address the convention today with the hopes of denying Harman the party endorsement, which would [...]

In a fairly impressive feat of organizing, Marcy Winograd, the progressive challenger to Jane Harman in California’s 36th District, was able to pull Harman’s state party endorsement after amassing enough objections from state party delegates. From the press release: Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd (CA-36), working with the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party (CDP), [...]

Arlen Specter, the Republican-turned-Democrat now running for re-election, has received the endorsement of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in his primary campaign against Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Specter has received plenty of labor endorsements before, even when he ran as a Republican (they backed him in 2004 over Democrat Joe Hoeffel). But considering that Specter vocally opposed [...]

Joe Sestak hasn’t gotten a ton of traction in his primary battle against Arlen Specter, but he just snagged some strong institutional support: the PAC of the National Organization for Women endorsed him today at an event in Pittsburgh. Here’s a report from the event emailed over by Sestak’s campaign: “The National Organization for Women [...]

Throughout the next two months, we will hear a common complaint from Blanche Lincoln as she runs for re-election against Bill Halter: that outside interests are coming into Arkansas and telling the people who should represent them. Surely she’ll say that about MoveOn.org, national labor groups, and the Sierra Club, which just launched a series [...]

Harold Ford is upset that Kirsten Gillibrand, the incumbent and announced candidate for the US Senate seat in New York, is doing what announced candidates do, by seeking endorsements. This is very underhanded, Ford says, and clearly Gillibrand should cease all campaign activities until her opponent decides whether or not to run. That would be [...]

In one of the first instances of an established political figure supporting the challenger in this primary, Rep. Barney Frank is endorsing Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania today, in his battle against Arlen Specter for the Senate seat on the Democratic side. In a press event, Frank cited Sestak’s support, as the highest-ranking military member in [...]