Still recovering...

I'm still recovering from last night (see prior post on last night's events).

The big question for the next few weeks is: will young voters actually vote? It's essential that they vote early due to the fact that at some universities, if not all, election day is not a day where classes are cancelled.

The DSCC is turning up the heat with only a few weeks to go.

Fiscally speaking, Sheldon Whitehouse is leading Lincoln Chafee. I still think this race will be close.

Former Kentucky basketball assistant coach Mike Sutton talks about his recovery from illness.

Dennis Hastert and other members of the GOP leadership are cutting their campaign visits over the next four weeks.

Claire McCaskill now leads Jim Talent by 51% to 42%. This is definitely good news.

In an election for United States Senator from Missouri today, 10/12/06, Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill leads Republican incumbent Jim Talent 51% to 42%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KSDK-TV St. Louis and KCTV-TV Kansas City. Since an identical SurveyUSA poll 4 weeks ago, on 9/14/06, McCaskill has gained 3 points and Talent has lost 5 points. McCaskill's advantage has grown from 1 point to 9 points.

Sen. Obama will be in Indianapolis to help Baron Hill return to Congress.

Powerful chairmanships are most definitely at stake come November 7, 2006.

Should Democrats win back control of the House, a number of long-serving Jewish lawmakers in ranking positions would likely accede to chairmanships of key committees, including Barney Frank of Massachusetts (financial services), Henry Waxman of California (government reform) and Howard Berman of California (ethics). Rep. Tom Lantos, a Bay Area Democrat and the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, is expected to chair the international relations committee, where he has worked closely with Republicans and is known as hawkish on Middle East policy.

Several Jewish lawmakers are also expected to lead powerful subcommittees, including two New York Democrats, Nita Lowey and Jerrold Nadler. Lowey is in line to assume the chairmanship of the appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, which approves nonmilitary assistance to other countries, including reconstruction aid to Iraq and Afghanistan and aid to the Palestinian Authority, and Nadler, who is the ranking Democrat on the judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, which handles all constitutional amendments and has the ability to review legislation that raises questions regarding civil rights and civil liberties.

The 60th District of the Kentucky State House just had a debate recently. David Ryan is the Democrat running in KY-60.

Big Blue Madness is this weekend.

Due to fall break, my blogging will be very limited until I get back to campus.