“General election” on The Daily Caller

Brian Murphy, a little-known Republican candidate for Maryland governor, unexpectedly won an endorsement Wednesday from one of the biggest names in national politics: Sarah Palin. (more)

The midterm elections promise to shake up Washington, but candidates are learning that change doesn’t come cheap. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sources tell The Associated Press that Carte Goodwin will be Gov. Joe Manchin’s temporary appointee to the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s seat. (more)

(Reuters) – Republican Meg Whitman on Monday took the lead over Democrat Jerry Brown for the first time in a general election poll, four months before voters go to the polls to chose the next California governor. (more)

Throughout NATO’s existence, U.S. leaders have complained about the tendency of the alliance’s European members to skimp on defense spending and take advantage of America’s security shield to free ride.  The free-rider problem, bad even during the Cold War, became worse when that struggle ended. (more)

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Listening to Prime Minister Erdogan’s amped-up rhetoric against the United States and Israel makes me genuinely scared for my country. I believe that people should be able to think for themselves, and to assess a situation based on the facts, not based on someone trying to make them afraid or blame some outside “bogeyman” for what’s going wrong with their lives or their country. It’s time to see those tactics for what they are: popular demagogy is a manipulative act that requires close scrutiny as people are looking toward the future to what they could become. (more)

California Democrats are starting to worry that gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown — who hasn’t had a truly competitive election in three decades — isn’t ready for the 21st-century campaign trail. (more)

Two events last week involving elements of the Democratic Party who call themselves the “true progressives” show a danger they represent to the progressive change they say they want to effect. Together they offer President Barack Obama an opportunity for a “Sister Souljah” moment — perhaps to save the Democratic Party majority in both chambers of Congress, as well as his progressive agenda in the last two years of his administration. (more)

Sharron Angle may have learned a lesson from fellow Tea Partier Rand Paul: Don’t meet the press. (more)

Sharron Angle, whose opponents in the Nevada Republican primary argued she was unelectable in a general election, is polling in the double digits ahead of Democratic Sen. Harry Reid in a newly released Rasmussen poll. (more)

Since the unofficial start of the 2012 Presidential campaign marathon is the day after the mid-term elections on Nov. 3, it is not to early to suggest a more effective and entertaining method of selecting the Republican 2012 presidential candidate, rather than that old, boring, worn down, dragged out primary system with endless debates and thousands of Ronald Reagan references. (more)

California’s presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, Jerry Brown, badly trails the leading Republican candidates on the fund-raising front. Oddly enough, though, he appears well-situated for the general election. (more)

Discontent with incumbents and anti-Washington anger are adding up to a potentially record-breaking crowd of congressional challengers this election year. (more)

Republican Sue Lowden has the best chance of defeating U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, according to a new poll for the Review-Journal that also suggests the Democratic incumbent could beat Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle in the fall, although he remains as unpopular as ever. (more)

With the generic exception of the Flight From Hell, airline routes do not have names. Trains, on the other hand, are more colorful. The Orient Express. The Maple Leaf to Toronto. The California Zephyr. The Barbequed Rib to Kansas City (I’m on yet another of my diets, and my stomach growls as I write.) And then there is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, whose forthcoming whistle-stop tour in pursuit of the presidency, before even having left the station, already has been christened The Dream On. (more)

I first saw, heard and then met Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) on the evening of April 21 at the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Palestra sports arena. With nearly all 10,000 seats filled the night before the Pennsylvania primary, it was an old-fashioned, rousing rally for then-New York senator and—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (more)

As a curious person who likes crowds and dislikes big government, it’s only natural that I’ve made my way to a couple Tea Party rallies in the past few months. My semi-regular attendance earned me a number of pins and buttons—including one with the now-again-emblematic “don’t tread on me” slogan—and it has placed my name on the mailing list of Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks organization, one of the principal sponsors of the rallies. (more)

Conservative leader David Cameron is the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown. (more)

The DCCC is pulling out of the race to replace ex-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), effectively ceding the heavily Dem seat to the GOP as intra-party feuding splits the vote. (more)