The Heritage Foundation’s Russ Vought took to the pages of Red State to fire a shot across House Republican Leadership’s bow. The former Pence staffer has never shied away from making headline and today should be no different. How quickly will the beltway pubs pick this up? We’ll update with …

WaPo’s Jason Horowitz: Risky career move paid off for fundraiser Rob Collins — and the Republicans This month, he boasted that his group would hit its $25 million fundraising goal and injected $16 million into ad campaigns targeting 22 House Democrats. In contrast to the donors supplying that cash, Collins …

President Barack Obama penned a letter for the DCCC titled “Final Countdown.” According to the first sentence, it seems President Obama is now attempting to weigh in on the County Board elections …

Debating is hard… When asked to name a Democratic Senator she’d be willing to work with, Christine named … Hillary Clinton. [close, but no quite] In a debate today hosted by local television station WHYY, Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell seemed unable to name a single sitting Democratic senator. …

All you need is a box and a sharpie: @pwgavin Did Ginny Thomas just make answering machines a last minute Halloween costume option? Back story here.

Question: If you’re a political candidate and you release an “internal” poll that has you up 19 points on your opponent, what should you do? A. Immediately loan your campaign $200,000 and hope nobody notices? B. Release another “internal” poll a few days later that has you up by 345 …

Another political candidate admits they’re not perfect: [but is he a witch?] Joe Miller: “John, I’ll admit I’m a man of many flaws. I’m not going to sit back and say that I’ve conducted my life perfectly,” Miller told CNN Monday night. “I will tell you that anything that I’ve …

Never heard of Jimmy McMillan? You have now. Last night, Jimmy McMillan, of the “Rent is too damn high” Party, stole the show at the NY gubernatorial debate. [not the only thing that’s high] Note 1: Jimmy has a very impressive website [that will crash any minute] that features items …

Susan Montee, the Missouri State Auditor, recently got sloshed and discussed putting a margarita machine, paid for by political contributions, in her car. [In her car!] We also enjoyed the part of the video in which she admits, “And I know that I don’t look like my picture.”  You certainly …

POLITICO: Karl Rove’s Karl Rove Forti, who last year told National Journal “I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight,” declined to comment for this story. And, unlike many political figures who turn down interviews, he also largely resisted the temptation to try to shape reporters’ narrative behind …

Is that really Alvin Greene behind you?

Public interest group Judicial Watch details 85 trips by Speaker Nancy Pelosi using Air Force aircraft … with an over $100k liquor and food tab. [party in the sky] Which gives us an excuse to turn off the lights, turn on the disco ball and smoke machine, and crank this …

USA Today: Obama: 24/7 media makes it hard to focus ‘on the long term’ “I’ve been surprised by how the news cycle here in Washington is focused on what happens this minute, as opposed to what needs to happen over the course of months, years,” Obama told the crowd at …

Pay attention to the end HIDE YOUR WILL HIDE YOUR LIGHTS CAUSE HE’S TAXING EVERYTHING OUT HERE. This also gives us another chance to watch Mr. Dodson’s original hit [31 million downloads]