In an election shocker, 52nd Congressional candidate Duncan D. Hunter’s lead in recent polling has dropped to a mere 21 percentage points, down from 23 only about three weeks ago!.

See the memo attached below.

I think I’ll take a nap now.… Read More

I watched broadcast between 8:30 and 9:00am this morning, flipping to find commercials. Here is what I saw, with comments.

Goldsmith for City Attorney: 1 Aguirre for City Attorney: 1 (something was wrong with the color of the ad) Block for 78th AD: 3 McCann for 78th AD: 4 Bilbray for Congress: 3 Liebham for Congress: 1 Prop 2 No: 3 Prop 7 Yes: 3 (strong ads) Prop 7 No: 4 (strong ads) Prop 8 Yes: 1 Prop 8 No: 1 Prop 4 Yes: 1 (strange ad) Prop 4 No: 1 Prop 5 Yes: 2 No on B: 1 Yes on Prop S: 2 (strange ad)… Read More

"The money was already tainted" according to black commentator, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, flatly stating that the 8.5 millions LA government unions are spending, is "buying an election". Not just any election, buta seat to the LA County Board of Supervisors, District 2.

Former Chief and current councilman Bernard Parks has out raised his opponent union-chattel, Mark Ridley-Thomas,… Read More

"The money was already tainted" according to black commentator, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, flatly stating that the 8.5 millions LA government unions are spending, is "buying an election". Not just any election, buta seat to the LA County Board of Supervisors, District 2.

Former Chief and current councilman Bernard Parks has out raised his opponent union-chattel, Mark Ridley-Thomas,… Read More

President Reagan’s eldest son, Michael Reagan, provided Congressional candidates and the McCain-Palin Victory Funds for Ohio and Pennsylvania $40,000 in contributions this week from his Federal PAC, The Legacy Committee. California candidates receiving late contributions include incumbents Dana Rohrabacher and Brian Bilbray.… Read More

No, this isn’t about Gandhi. But you have to admit, the following reader comments posted today to Chris Reed’s America’s Finest Blog entry on Prop8, are about as hilariously "ironical" as you’ll find….

Jenny (excerpted): "I’m a liberal democrat, and support Prop 8. I’ve supported gay rights since I was a teenager, but over the past few years, I’ve had my eyes opened to the cold hard facts that the gay activists are more interested in grinding an axe against the religious, than any kind of equality. Today for example, reading comments to an article online, I read comments by gays waging the no on prop 8 battle online, shrilly excusing the attack against a man who was only handing out lawn signs outside of a church, by a gay man who tried to steal the signs. The comments included that the religious don’t have rights, that they should get over it, and accept the fact that they would be challenged now at every turn and subject to derision.

"Those were the words of a… Read More

This morning I watched broadcast news from 8:45 to 9:05 and here is what I saw:

Block for 78th Assembly: 1 (although I’d note their buy is huge I just appear to be missing them) McCann for 78th Assembly: 1 Evans & Jackson for San Diego School Board: 1 Prop 4 No: 1 Prop 8 No: 1 Prop 2 No: 3 Prop 5 Yes: 1 Prop 7 Yes: 1 No on B: 1… Read More

MSM PRINT NEWSPAPER CIRCULATIONS DROP, AGAIN Our friends in the main stream media print newspaper continue to feel the hit as readership continues to decline at a fairly rapid pace. More and more former readers of papers are instead turning to outlets like the internet to find their news. It seems like many papers are in a “death spiral” where the circulation drops, then the layoffs come (see here for the latest), and then the circulation drops more… and so on…

Some stats: LOS ANGELES TIMES — 739,147 — (-5.20%) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — 339,430 — (-7.07%) SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE — 269,819 — (-3.00%) THE SACRAMENTO BEE —… Read More