Briefing – January 19, 2006
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Making the rounds on a Thursday morning:
As indicated yesterday, Andrew Borene formalized his entry into the Senate race for District 41 (Edina). Al Franken hosted the event. They are graduates of the same private high school, apparently.
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There are few better reads in politics than Charlie Cook's (The Cook Report) annual overview of the political landscape. Cook issued the 2006 version a couple of weeks ago but updated it on Tuesday. It spells out the various scenarios for party success.
A week after leading the Democratic brigade against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito over alleged ties to a club at Princeton with questionable practices, Sen. Ted Kennedy has cut ties to a club at Harvard that,you guessed it, bans women.
There's an interesting race going on in Ohio where Secretary of State Ken Blackwell reportedly has the early lead in the contest for governor, according to polls. City Journal has a profile of Blackwell:
Blackwell has built his early lead not by tacking toward the center of this swing state but by running on an uncompromisingly conservative platform that
