senate race
Angela Alsobrooks has made history by winning the Senate race to represent Maryland, becoming the state’s first Black woman to hold this position. The Associated Press projected Alsobrooks’ victory. Alsobrooks’ win is not only a major milestone for Maryland but also one for African Americans as she became the fifth-ever Black woman elected to […]
While the nation is celebrating Stacey Abrams for the work she did in helping to secure the senate runoffs, we're hoping that this praise and admiration for Black women extends to those who aren't in public life.
(Technorati) — The Tea Party is a threat to not only the Democrats when it comes to keeping their place in the Senate, but to the Republican party as well. They might not realize it, and the GOP might not realize it, but they are. The two parties aren’t the only ones concerned, it appears the […]
Why some are unhappy with the loony man from South Carolina…
(Huffington Post) — A new poll released on Monday by Quinnipiac University shows Kendrick Meek with a 10 point lead in tomorrow’s Democratic primary for a Florida U.S. Senate seat. The poll, conducted by live interviewers August 21-22, comes on the heels of two other polls released over the weekend that both showed Meek with big leads over […]
(Washington Post) — That’s the question here. How did Alvin M. Greene, an unemployed military veteran who lives with his father, come up with the $10,400 filing fee for the Democratic Senate primary he won Tuesday? As pressure mounts on Greene to answer speculation that he might have been a Republican plant — an accusation […]
The deep suspicion is that Greene is a GOP cropper; that is, that he's a bought-and-paid-for plant by the party to make fools of the Democrats and ensure a cakewalk victory for GOP Senate incumbent Jim DeMint.