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<p> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2010CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or via email at: Levi@FrontLineStrat.com Tea Party Express to Target Lisa Murkowski For Defeat - Yes, Again.The Tea Party Express (website: www.TeaPartyExpress.org) is prepared to rally its supporters in Alaska once more to defeat liberal incumbent, Lisa Murkowski, in her apparently never-ending bid for U.S. Senate."Lisa, take a hint, the voters rejected you once before and now watching you defy their will is bound to alienate yourself from Alaska voters even more," said Amy Kremer, Chairman of the Tea Party Express.The Tea Party Express will unveil a new TV and radio ad campaign...

It is possible that a write-in campaign by Congressman Mike Castle could hurt Democrat Chris Coons more than Republican Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware campaign for U.S. Senate. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Delaware voters finds Coons with 49% support, while O’Donnell earns 40% of the vote. Castle, a longtime congressman who lost to O’Donnell in the state’s GOP Primary, picks up five percent (5%). Another five percent (5%) remain undecided. To see survey questions, click here. Polling for write-in campaigns is always challenging, so results should be interpreted with caution. For this survey, Rasmussen Reports asked...

Now RINO Mike Castle Wants A Write-In Campaign Too - We Must STOP Him! Just when you think this election cycle can't get any more bizarre - we have now learned that liberal RINO Mike Castle is trying to follow in the footsteps of Lisa Murkowski to launch a write-in campaign for U.S. Senate after voters rejected him in the GOP primary.Castle is now conducting a poll to see if his write-in campaign can win.  Here's the report from Politico: What part of "NO" does Mike Castle not understand?  It's looking like we have the same pattern being repeated that we saw with Lisa...

One FReeper's take on Murkowski's write-in bid. I shamelessly stole some graphics from FR threads - they're the best part!

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will likely be forced out of her party leadership position should she decide to launch a write-in or third-party candidacy, a Senate Republican said Wednesday. Murkowski, who conceded the GOP primary last month to Fairbanks lawyer Joe Miller, could announce as soon as Thursday whether she will continue her campaign for re-election as a write-in candidate. She has also held talks with the state’s Libertarian Party leaders about running under their flag. Although Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other GOP leaders have not yet formally discussed what to do if Murkowski does run, the...

Can we as a sector of the political spectrum come to a consenses on a canidate for president? I believe we have squandered our opportunity to influence this election by not actively supporting the candidate that best represented conservative positions - and so we were appointed John Mccain. Now believe me, given the alternatives of Barack/Hillery, I do hope that JM wins, but he will have to do it without my vote. I believe that with the numbers FR reaches, that we could still make a difference if we could only agree - and throw our support behind a candidate...

Principles used to mean something in this Country. One of the reasons our Country is in the mess it's in, is because we've lost our way, and abandoned our principles. What lessons do we teach our Children, our Families, our friends, and our peers, if we, so easily, abandon what's important, and what has made us this great Country, and what the Founders fought for. Did they not teach us that principles are worth every human effort possible? Did they not set out before us a Document that, in great explication, perfects our Principles? FRed Thompson called his campaign the...

Many Freepers, including me, are disappointed that McCain will likely be the nominee. I'll vote for Romney on Super Tuesday. If McCain wins the nomination, I will vote for him on the *hope* he will be less bad than Clinton or Obama would be. I see no reason to actively support him by contributing to or volunteering for his campaign. I think we should focus on congressional and gubernatorial campaigns, trying to hold the seats of real conservatives and maybe pick off a few vulnerable Democrats in what will likely be a Democratic year. Any suggestions? I think McCain is...

SUGAR LAND, Texas - Charity is rare in partisan politics, and nobody ever accused Republican powerhouse Tom DeLay of cutting Democrats any slack. But the former House majority leader's resignation could hand Democrats the gift he seemed to cherish most: his own seat in Congress. In any other year, it might be a minor embarrassment. But Democrats are close enough to retaking the U.S. House of Representatives that Texas' 22nd Congressional District, where DeLay has withdrawn from the election and left Republicans with no candidate on the ballot, could be the race that puts liberal Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in...

Write-in candidate names are not on the ballot by design. To cast a vote for one on the electronic eSlate machines, which don't have a keyboard, you'll have to use the "select" dial to choose "write-in." Even then, the names won't automatically pop up, said Scott Haywood, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office. In each booth there will be a printed list of candidates who have been certified for the Congressional District 22 race. Using the dial and a picture of a keyboard on the screen, the voter will click the letters of the name they want. Potential...

Ohio Sen. Charlie Wilson (D-St. Clairsville) will be a write-in candidate for Democratic nomination for the 6th Congressional seat and is getting a big endorsement from the man he is hoping to replace, U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland. Following Wilson's announcement that he will continue his campaign for the office as a Democrat, it was announced that Strickland is backing the Wilson write-in campaign.

LISBON — Charles A. Wilson Jr. doesn't have enough valid signatures on his nominating petitions to run in the Democratic primary for the 6th Congressional District race, The Vindicator has learned. The Columbiana County Board of Elections is left with no other choice but to disqualify Wilson's candidacy for the seat at its meeting today. Wilson has only 48 valid signatures on his nominating petitions, according to two Democratic sources and one Republican source with knowledge of his petitions. Congressional candidates need 50 valid signatures from registered voters in their districts to get on the ballot. Wilson, a state senator...

Remember the bubbles? The legal challenge to a ruling upholding Mayor Dick Murphy's election is still pending in a state appeals court, and the mayor's resignation yesterday will not stop the appeal, the attorney for the challengers said yesterday. "The suit goes on," said Fredric Woocher, an elections law specialist representing three supporters of Councilwoman Donna Frye. They contend she lost her write-in campaign to unseat Murphy because ballots that should have been counted were not. The challenge focused on 5,551 ballots on which Frye's name was written in but a corresponding oval bubble next to it was not shaded...

More people voted in the San Diego mayor's race for write-in candidate Donna Frye than for Mayor Dick Murphy, according to a review yesterday of disputed ballots, but it would take court action for her to be declared the winner. At the end of a full day of ballot examination, county elections workers ... had reviewed 4,854 ballots cast for Frye that were not included in the official results of the Nov. 2 election. Those numbers alone, likely to rise as the ballot review continues today, would put Frye 2,746 votes above Murphy's official total. The ballots were disqualified because...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The presiding judge of the San Diego Superior Court recused all 124 judges on the bench from hearing a lawsuit attempting to block write-in candidate Councilwoman Donna Frye from becoming mayor. Judge John Einhorn said he made the decision Wednesday because one of Frye's election rivals, incumbent Mayor Dick Murphy, was a judge for 15 years before he was elected mayor in 2000. Several judges have contributed to Murphy's campaigns, and Einhorn wanted to avoid any appearance of favoritism. Einhorn arranged with California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George to have the case heard by Charles...

Donna Frye, a surfer who sports long blond hair and refuses to get a driver's license, is riding a wave of write-in votes for mayor that could sweep aside two graying 60-something Republicans and carry her into City Hall. The surf-shop owner has capitalized on a confluence of circumstances, including a pension scandal that has shaken the city financially. The votes have not been completely tallied, but so far, the write-in ballots lead with 35 percent of the vote; Mayor Dick Murphy has 34 percent. The write-ins are expected to be overwhelming in favor of Frye, 52, who said she...

Few people have had electoral success like Paul Fosse. Yes, he filed to run for his local city council. Then, when the mayor moved out of town, he won that job by council appointment. Since then, he's been reelected every two years -- nine times, 18 years -- as mayor of Rothsay in northwestern Minnesota without ever filing for office. And, he said, he's never campaigned for the job.

Scott "The Big Trunk" Johnson from Power Line Blog (http://www.powerlineblog.com/) has accepted being a write in candidate for MN Supreme Court. Thanks right...one of the guys that helped blow open RatherGate can be a MN Supreme Court Justice...talk about JUSTICE for the MSM. And how ironic - the power of the blog to elect a write in, last minute candidate. Please forward this to everyone you know in MN.

Close Count Makes Votes Count Chippewa County Oct 25, 2004 Be careful what you vote for, it may come true. One Chippewa Falls man was elected to the County Board after he wrote himself in on the ballot. Karl Larson and his wife voted last April. They noticed no was running in their district for the Chippewa County Board, so they used Karl's name as a write-in. Larson won the 21st District Seat with just two votes and says he is excited to serve his community. "I don't think I'm any more underqualified or overqualified than anyone else," says Larson....

Dear Friends and Fellow Americans, The most critical truth is that the four primary candidates for the highest offices in our land, Mr. George W. Bush, Mr. Dick Cheney, Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards all voted for the war in Iraq. Period. Each man had an opportunity for greatness and they failed. John Kerry and John Edwards are followers. They are not leaders! They failed the American people and the world. Their names are forever etched in history along with Ms. Hillary Clinton and all the so-called leaders who voted for the war in Irag and for the...