Karl Rove

Former U.S. Senate majority leader George Mitchell has been actively campaigning for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and U.S. Senate nominee and current Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland).

Tuesday he campaigned with Allen, who hopes to unseat U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor), and PolitickerME.com had a chance to ask Mitchell about this year's election.

Comptroller Peter Franchot is refuting attacks from pro-slots organization For Maryland For Our Future, claiming the charges against him are "outright lies."

Franchot was referencing two new television ads launched last week by For Maryland For Our Future. The organization said the ads were intended to correct Comptroller Peter Franchot's "misleading" and "false public statements" about November's slots referendum.

DENVER -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would win Colorado - and the presidency -- if the election were held today, GOP strategist Karl Rove stated Monday on his Web site. The former White House political adviser said Obama would win every state John Kerry won in 2004, while adding New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado to the Democratic column, Rove wrote, citing the latest wave of state polls to be released in the past few days.

The San Bernardino County Republican Party will host an October fundraiser featuring GOP strategist Karl Rove. Republican officials hope the Oct. 10 event will provide a crucial economic jolt for a county party that has faced dire straights in recent months.

Maryland Republican Party executive director Justin Ready had only one thing to say on the eve of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convetion:

"You've got your hands full now boys."

But David Paulson, the Maryland Democratic Party's communications director, said the comment "tells you something about where their heads are at."

MINNEAPOLIS--Barack Obama will find it hard to win the rural voters he needs to capture Colorado's nine electoral votes this November, former Bush administration political strategist Karl Rove told reporters Wednesday morning. Speaking outside the Republican National Convention Colorado delegation breakfast at the Four Points by Sheraton Minneapolis Hotel, Rove said Colorado was "changing in a way that (John McCain) has the ability to win" the state.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told the Ohio Republican delegation that despite Barack Obama’s large ground operation, the GOP turnout machine will carry the day. Rove said he gets frequent reports about the Ohio Victory program's get-out-the-vote effort. The program is a coordinated committee between the John McCain presidential campaign, the Ohio Republican Party and the Republican National Committee. Rove said this operation is further long this time in 2008 than the same time in 2004.

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Maine's Republican delegation got a surprise visit from former White House political operative Karl Rove at its convention breakfast this morning. During his speech, he talked up John McCain's Republican presidential bid and criticized Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his inexperience. When the topic of running mates came up, he referred to U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) as a "big, blowhard doofus."

DENVER -- Speaking in front of the New Jersey delegation this morning, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) said that former White House official Karl Rove – for years President Bush’s closest advisor – is going to hell.

Pascrell said that the last eight years have been full of squandered opportunities and missteps, both domestically and internationally, and pinned the blame squarely on the Bush Administration.

“We might have missed the last eight years because folks did not tell us the truth,” he said. “Dante’s Inferno laid out very specifically the very levels receding into hell. And the hottest place is reserved for those who distort the truth, who manipulate our minds, or who attempt to do it, anyway. So I don’t think Bush and Cheney will be at the hottest point in the inferno, but I sure as hell know that Karl Rove will be.”