RedState Briefing 10/27/2014

The Last Week

This is, thankfully, the final week in the run up to the general election. The day after, I’ll have a post-election call. You can sign up for it here. This week, the Democrats are going to pull out all the stops. In North Carolina, they’re focusing on Trayvon Martin to scare black voters. In Georgia, they are focused on Ferguson for the same thing. More likely than not, the Democrats will be unsuccessful. They will be unsuccessful for a few reasons.

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Rape, Sex Offender, these are subjective terms for Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper   Friday night was the last of the gubernatorial debates in Colorado. Hickenlooper, who is ahead of Bob Beauprez by .2% in the RCP average, finished off his debate series with yet another blooper. The incumbent democrat had what may be considered in Akin moment. When Bob Beauprez brought up the fact that under Gov. Hickenlooper’s watch regulations were put in place that allow sex offenders to work around children and not have it affect their parole, Hickenlooper explained that sex offender doesn’t mean sex offender … Maybe it just means statutory rape.   Read More Sponsored

President Obama Wants New York and New Jersey to Stop Their Ebola Quarantines "The Obama administration has been pushing the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said on Sunday." Read More

GOP candidate attacked because he is Catholic It is often said that the last acceptable prejudice is anti-Catholicism (though being anti-Christian and anti-male are certainly in the running) and proof of this is on display in Washington state. In the state senate contest between Democrat Shari Song and Demcrat-turned-Republican Mark Miloscia to represent the Federal Way (a city between Seattle and Tacoma) constituency, Miloscia has been attacked for being a Catholic and, well, believing Catholic stuff. His opponent, when asked about it, said Read More

Sponsored   Study: Illegal votes can determine elections; Voter ID not sufficient   In an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post, Jesse Richman and David Earnest of Old Dominion University (my alma mater), say that not only can vote by non-citizens determine election outcomes — and may very well have done that — but that current Voter ID laws probably don’t offer deterrence.   Read More

Justice Department claims black and Hispanic voters are dumb and unsophisticated For reasons that can only be ascribed to politics (my gosh, I’m getting so tired of prefacing every single thing this bunch of clowns does with the same phrase), Eric Holder and the wannabe-fascists in his Justice Department are carrying out a jihad on behalf of vote theft. They are doing this by contesting Voter ID laws that are being passed in many states despite a nearly unbroken string of defeats in appeals courts. Read More

The Wild Variations I have noticed some wild variations in polling in places like South Dakota, Kentucky, and Georgia. Places that should not be in play seem to be in play. What makes it so bizarre is that in these states President Obama remains deeply unpopular. The national polling should flow down into state level polling, but it does not seem to be. In particular, the Georgia polling I am most familiar with is also the most bizarre. Some pollsters have Nunn up, others Perdue. Some have races tied. There is no common trend. Except there is. I figured it out by what there is not. Read More

RedState Weekly Briefing: GOP Wave?? Ebola Quarantine, Religious Assault, and More! #RSWB   This week on the RedState Weekly Briefing Thomas LaDuke, Joe Cunningham, Caleb Howe, and I discuss the developing GOP wave, the Ebola quarantine and the White House push back, the Democratic assault on religious liberty and religion itself, and more.   Read More Sponsored

Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState