Our tipline has been buzzing off the hook with the news Monday morning that a conservative blogger named Will Folks is claiming he had an affair with Indian American gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Haley had a 30% lead in recent … Continue reading
Via the Swing State Project that is monitoring the results here: 12:42am: The AP calls PA-06 (D) for Manan Trivedi and PA-17 (R) for Dave Argall. 12:22am: Trivedi wins! 100% in according to the AP, and he’s up 21,338 to … Continue reading
Tuesday is primary day in the state of Pennsylvania. My cousin Manan Trivedi is vying for the Democratic party’s nomination against Doug Pike. The winner will face the Republican incumbent in a district that has a real chance of switching … Continue reading
British National Party (BNP) Parliamentary candidate Bob Bailey ran into a group of three Desi toughs in East London while campaigning earlier today, and the following is the result: If you look at the reaction in the YouTube comments, as … Continue reading
Just a brief post on this: Surya Yalamanchili, the Democratic congressional candidate from Ohio we mentioned last week, just won the primary in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District. He defeated David Krikorian by 650 votes; last week, Krikorian made comments about … Continue reading
Ohio, congressional primaries… I’ll let this story in the Washington Independent speak for itself: With the Democratic primary just days away, state and local party leaders are ripping into David Krikorian, one of the hopefuls to challenge GOP Rep. Jean … Continue reading
Over at Wonkette today they were asking a real brain teaser. Which one of these is not like the others? Hey, they do it in every single Bollywood movie or Indian channel serial drama. Why not the official Louisiana Governor’s … Continue reading
We are now less than twelve months away from the next big election, the 2010 Midterm Elections. Another election? I know, I know. It feels a little too soon. But on November 2, 2010 elections will be held for at … Continue reading
It has been a couple of weeks now since Republicans upset the Democrats in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races. Both of these states went for Barack Obama in 2008. There were two simple explanations debated among the pundit … Continue reading
Our friend Bassam Tariq from 30 Mosques in 30 Days just posted a fascinating story over at Times.com about a Bangladeshi candidate that ran for local office in NYC. (hat tip, Sharaf!) It’s the classic story, with a modern twist. … Continue reading