Monthly Archives: October 2010

A Political Transformation | HughHewitt.com | 10.25.10

It is the final week of the campaign, and as the two sides begin to make their closing arguments, CBS’ 60 Minutes dropped a bombshell last night. For a segment on the economy, the television news magazine added to the official unemployment rate of 9.5 percent the number who had quit looking for work or […]
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Needed: Unmistakable Signal | HughHewitt.com | 10.18.10

Why were the president and vice president campaigning last week for Christopher Coons, the Democrat’s Senate candidate in Delaware? Delaware is an eleven-point race in favor of Coons, who is facing Christine O’Donnell, the most reviled GOP insurgent in the nation.  Normally campaigns don’t send their big guns into blow-aways that they are winning and […]
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Bigger Than Anyone’s Expectations | HughHewitt.com | 10.11.10

Recently in this space, I suggested that a 54-vote GOP pickup in the House and as much as a 12-vote swing in the Senate could be coming in November.  Reports last week suggest that Republican House gains may prove even larger. On Wednesday Politico ran a front-page story (see http://tiny.cc/teo7k ) headlined, “House chairmen in […]
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Ice in Their Veins Pros | HughHewitt.com | 10.04.10

The House of Representatives adjourned last week with all the style we have come to expect from the Obama-Pelosi-Reid congress.  The normally all but unanimous shout of acclaim to go home turned into a one-vote-margin, roll-call squeaker in which Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to descend from the podium to cast the deciding ballot. Messy?  Yes.  […]
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