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Campaigning for Insurance Commissioner

Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is running this November as one of the few incumbents for statewide elected office.

More Accusations Against State Auditor

A State lawmaker is calling the Auditor and Inspector a liar and embarrassment to Oklahoma for delaying the release of an audit for the Broken Arrow School System.

Podcast Yes, ScuttleButton No

There is, in life as well in the Political Junkie blog, good news and bad news. The bad news is that ScuttleButton, America’s favorite Waste of Time button puzzle, will not appear this week. Seems like lots of folks are off gallivanting during this Labor Day holiday weekend, and studies show it to be not [...]

And The Winner Of The August Political Junkie Primary Contest Is …

That’s right, you guessed it. Nobody! Once again, no one got every primary contest correct. And that is not surprising, given the upsets in the Colorado GOP Senate (Buck over Norton) and gubernatorial (Maes over McInnis) primaries, and of course the shocker in Alaska (Miller over Murkowski). But was it really a shocker? As it [...]

And The Reason To Vote For You, Gov. Brewer, Is … Is … ???

It is fair to say that Jan Brewer has been on the firing line for much of her tenure as governor of Arizona. Moving up from her secretary of state position last year after Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) left to join the Obama Cabinet, Brewer, a Republican, entered the national spotlight in April when she [...]

Does A Concession Mean It’s Over?

The Republican primary for the Senate in Alaska, where incumbent Lisa Murkowski has conceded defeat to challenger Joe Miller, has been the story of the week, if not the year. Here’s a question from Martin Ericson of Concord, N.C.: Lisa Murkowski’s recent concession with the election still technically in doubt reminded me of a long-standing [...]

The Pursuit Of Trivia On Talk Of The Nation, And A Lodge Mistake

OK, some unhappiness with today’s trivia question during the Political Junkie segment on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. My question: Before Lisa Murkowski, who was the last woman elected senator or governor to be defeated in the primary? The correct answer (at least, the one I was looking for): Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, who [...]

This Week’s Junkie Segment On TOTN: Campaign Themes For November

Sometimes the primaries elicit little more than a yawn. That was the case last Saturday, with no surprises to be found in the contests in Louisiana and West Virginia. And then sometimes it’s an OMG moment. Such as yesterday’s concession by Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. We focus on that in this week’s Political Junkie [...]