From The Hollywood Reporter via Drudge

Because of The One’s media buy for the end of October, FOX sports has to move the beginning of the World Series back 15 minutes.

To accommodate the half-hour Obama time buy that will air Oct. 29 on CBS and NBC, Fox Broadcasting is asking Major League Baseball to move the start time of World Series Game 6 by about 15 minutes. That would move the time from 8:20 p.m. or so ET to 8:35 p.m.

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I am a freshman at Miami University of Ohio. One of the organizations I am deeply involved with is the College Republicans. Part of what we do here (at least during election season) is spend a significant amount of time on the weekends at Butler County GOP headquarters in Hamilton helping with GOTV work. Every Saturday, we do phone banking to help determine where our assets are best placed come Nov. 4. Every Sunday, we go around and put up signs for Congressman John Boehner (R-OH-08) and Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH-01).

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H/T: KMOV-TV via Drudge

Barack Obama’s campaign has asked law enforcements across the state of Missouri to create a “Truth Squad” and target anyone who runs lies or a misleading TV ad during the election.
Youtube video here.

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So today on my way home, I was listening to a talk show, and the host was talking about the back-and-forth between McCain and Obama on energy. So the guy plays a clip of Obama’s remarks regarding the GOP handing out tire pressure gauges with Obama’s energy plan on it (which I find to be hilarious). The host then babbles on for a couple of minutes about this and that, and then he brings up a clip of the new Paris Hilton ad. While I am listening to her plan, a brilliant idea for a McCain to use for ads about his energy comes to mind: make it an animation, and have a monster labeled “Dependence on Foreign Energy” and in it you have three superheroes: one that shoots out Domestic Oil, another that smothers the monster with Clean Coal, and another that fries the monster with Nuclear Energy. While they are each using their special power, they explain to each other in layman’s terms why they will help and how soon they can help cut our dependence on foreign oil. At the end is an announcer: “Dependence on Foreign Energy is a monster. How do we kill it? Drill it, Nuke it, Mine it!”

Some digs at Obama’s silly energy plan could be added, but it would probably dilute the message.

I’m pretty sure that by now you all know the drill, so I’ll dive straight in.

CA-14.
Incumbent: Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA).
Challenger: Ronny Santana (R).
CQPolitcis Rating: Safe Democrat.
I concur with CQ’s rating: Though not gerrymandered, the population is extremely liberal in their views (with the conservative enclaves of Atherton, Los Altos, and Woodside being the exceptions), which explains why Eshoo, who has represented the district since 1992, has an ACU lifetime voting record of 5.08%. She’s easily won re-election every time, with 71.1% of the vote in 2006 and ~70% in 2004. The district covers about 1/2 to 3/4 of San Mateo County, the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, and about half of Santa Cruz County. Kerry had greater than a 2-1 margin here in 2004, but Gore carried the district 59-34.

CA-15.
Incumbent: Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA).
Challenger: Raymond Chukwu (R)
CQPolitics Rating: Safe Democrat.
First elected in 2000, Mike Honda has an ACU rating of 4%. Honda has gone up against his opponent, Raymond Chukwu, twice before. In 2004, Honda won 72-28, and the results from 2006 look similar. Bush fared somewhat better in this district, losing to Kerry 63-36 and to Gore 58-36. The district comprises the better part of Santa Clara County, starting in Milpitas and meandering it’s way down to Gilroy via Santa Clara/Campbell/Los Gatos.

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As usual, I will look at different Congressional Districts in California and describe the following:
- Incumbent
– % of vote in 2006
– % of vote in 2004
– ACU voting record*
- Challenger
– Any biographical info I find
- CQPolitics Rating (Safe R, Lean R, etc.)
- Geography
- 2004 Presidential Election Margins
- 2000 Presidential Election Margins
- Anything else that is note worthy & my personal opinion on this district

• For the purpose of this post, I will consider anyone with a 90% or higher rating from the ACU to be a TrueConservative™.

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I thought that I would create an 11-part series of information on all 53 congressional districts within the state of California. I will look at who the incumbent is, their ACU Rating* and the rating that CQ Politics gives the district, as well as information regarding how the district has voted in the past two Congressional and Presidential Elections, as well as the geography of the district. I will also include any background info I find.

*for the purposes of this post, I will consider candidates with a 90%+ rating from the ACU to be TrueConservatives™

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I thought that I would create an 11-part series of information on all 53 congressional districts within the state of California. I will look at who the incumbent is, their ACU Rating* and the rating that CQ Politics gives the district, as well as information regarding how the district has voted in the past two Congressional and Presidential Elections, as well as the geography of the district. I will also include any background info I find.

*for the purposes of this post, I will consider candidates with a 90%+ rating from the ACU to be TrueConservatives™

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