We get all of our news from “the Onion” and from what we can tell, it’s not looking good for Democrats. WASHINGTON—According to recent media reports, Democrats stand to lose as many as 8,000 congressional seats and more than 917 gubernatorial races in November’s midterm elections. “Republicans are poised to …

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 …

From RCP: Diane Denish, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate in the state of New Mexico, makes a verbal flub while accusing her candidate of nepotism. NM Democrat: Opponent Spent Immigration Money On “Big Fat Boners” h/t RCP

This is unfortunate, but a wee bit funny: [oh, boy] The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and election officials said Wednesday the problem cannot be corrected …

Arianna Huffington loves Christine DeLargy’s jewelry, Clinton Portis wanted to be a wrestler as a kid, DC experienced a Rainpcalypse, Tara Palmeri is the boss, Emily Heil celebrated her birthday, Ryan Grim is that guy, Executive Branch spelling is hard, Huffington Post vs. POLITICO, Gilbert Arenas stopped shaving, Supreme Court …

NY gubernatorial candidate threatens to “take out” NY Post reporter. [because that’s normal] Paladino and Post Reporter Have to Be Separated After Confrontation We’re also quite certain he doesn’t have a “Christmas card list”. The video on NBC has been taken down, but can be seen here:

Monica took what might have been a pretty ridiculous assignment and turned it into something wonderful. She transformed a fringe Republican Gubernatorial candidacy into a 962-word think-piece on the intersection of politics, the Internet and Napoleon Dynamite. WaPo: Basil Marceaux lost his race, but on Web he won place in …

File this one under “Naughty Nurses”? Late last week a few “video trackers” got some personal treatment from a couple nurses union folks who were protesting gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. And as their names would imply, they got the entire incident on video. Yesterday, the folks at Red State ID’d …

No California, there is no Santa Claus. Just ask your gubernatorial candidate and current attorney general Jerry Brown. Yesterday, on an extended interview with CNBC’s Jane Wells, Jerry dashed the hopes and dreams of however many children happened to be tuning in to the all business channel when he proudly …

Jerry Brown is running for governor of CA again, which would lead us to believe that records on his previous administration might give voters some insight into how he governs. One problem, the over 2,000 boxes of records are “available to the public only with Brown’s written permission“. Clever move, …

If you once thought it impossible to blow a 50 point lead in a gubernatorial race even though you had access to $68 million, [think again.] Despite spending $68 million of her fortune on a half-year torrent of TV ads, billionaire former eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s once-robust lead over Insurance …

3 am texting [boat rides to St. Michael’s] Sunday secrets [PostSecret] This is a test [the unknown] RIP [Playaz Ball]

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Tom DeLay’s Dancing With the Stars partner Cheryl Burke recently admitted she was a little nervous that the former politician was going to be a "grumpy old man." She was happy to learn otherwise.  [hammer or softy?] "He’s a really nice guy and he’s such a family man," Burke says. …

Sadly, it might be the end of an era for one of our favorite DC bands. According to The Frustrations lead singer, Kristen Soltis, their lead guitar player is leaving the band. "Unfortunately, our uber-talented guitar player Jim is leaving the Frustrations, and we’re sad to see him go! We’re …