The 2010 Elections Thread - Page 2

My mistake, I was going somewhere else originally and forgot to change that. Twice, apparently. I don't agree with McConnell on much of anything, but he's never approached Boehner as a source of head-shaking disbelief.

I agree that it's worth something to have an actual offering of ideas - but Cantor's ideas seem (to me) to be echoes of what the party has been putting out for at least a couple of decades now. There's a fair amount of energy and ambition that he injects into them, but it seems like he wants to accelerate the party without changing its direction at all.

The question wasn't and isn't intended to start yet another GOP bashing session, so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Cantor and Paul have been relatively prominent for a while now, and I thought I had decent idea of what they stand for. I'd like to think whoever takes the reins and brings some control to the Republicans will bring actual change, but as somebody who held quiet hopes that Obama would turn out to be the sickle swinging socialist hippy he was portrayed as, I can't say I expect Cantor to swing too far from his past.

Does Joe Sestak have any money in the Pa Senate race? Did he blow his entire war chest on defeating Spector.

Every other commercial is a Pat Toomey ad. (not complaining, Nick! He even has ads on Chud). God I hate this guy. He is Santorium 2.0. What happened to the Republicans in Pa that I could respect, like Tom Ridge?

Sestak may lack the money to really start advertising right now. I bet you'll start seeing more ads either in the middle of the coming month or early September. I wouldn't count him out. I'm not from PA but I was interning at The Hill when his primary campaign was gearing up and some of my research involved Sestak pretty specifically. Back then people were saying he didn't have a shot in the primary, but the dude's got some serious credentials (4 star admiral, etc.), is pretty likable, and is not crazy. If you don't start seeing ads by mid September, that's when I'd start to worry about him. I wouldn't count Sestak out right now, though.

And yes, I'm rooting for him.

I'm a Republican originally from PA and I'm pulling for Sestak. Corbett for Governor though.

Here's a great Blog Post from The New Republic on the Stupidity of Liberal Apathy

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-coh...upidity-apathy

An interesting mirrored perspective from the other side of the world looked at against the context of my own countries upcoming federal election at the end of this month...

A change of government could be an object lesson for Obama

And this dude is ahead in the polls for the Republican Primary next week...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

See...that's how they get you with riding a bike to work...

You know who else like to ride bikes? Freddy Mercury and the chinese! I rest my case.

Wait. What?

I'm confused again, dammit.

So...Denver joins this thing, this United Nations bike thing, 18 years ago. And this goober claims it's a long-term plot for taking rights from us and rein in American cities. And the current Denver mayor, ten years after the city joined this thing, is involved in this insidious plot. He's trying to take away our personal freedoms. Because bikes are...what? Slow and next to useless in the McDonald's drivethru? Lousy for drive-by shootings? UTTERLY inefficient at creating precious air pollution?

See, this stuff can't be real. And if it is, how can you be expected to not take the Tennessee goober seriously. Or the South Carolina goober. Or the Michelle Bachman goober.

Here's what the Republicans are up to right here where I live:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_660964.html


ETA: Holy Shit! Hahahahah, I just realized I went to high-school with the 'cameraman," Jason.

From another article...this guy is a fucking loon.
The Strauch guy is the spokesman for the Colorado Senate Candidate Jane Norton...also a Republican.

http://www.9news.com/news/politics_g...6839&catid=166

And fat bottomed girls too...

I thought they just made the rockin world go round.

And regarding the gooper up there in Denver: I've thought about it, and do you think he might mean something like this? That the UN organization thing may simply start with clean air initiatives and whatnot, but use those as a springboard for other "living improvements" or some such? Sure, make the bike paths a priority. Then, well, it's not too far a leap toward a requirement for businesses that have more than X employees to put in showers in case the employees commute on their bikes. Then, after that becomes status quo, a requirement that X percentage of employees are from the "bike commuters" pool? And then families are required to buy bikes for their kids at age 6 from the official list of federal suppliers? And so on?

But then we'd end up with reverse biker discrimination, a Schwinn backlash of epic proportions, cheap foreign bikes dumped on our shores at a loss, a scandal over kneepads that don't meet federal specs, oil company payoffs of congressmen trying to get legislation that defines "Scooter=bike", some velodrome superstar in a Vin Diesel movie that drives the "greatest bike chase scene ever", and In'n'Out Burger stands making all of their drive-thru window lanes three feet wide.

Fuck that shit.

Christ, I can't even extrapolate a negative to what that idiot is talking about without going off the deep end. Do any of these fuckers spend an ounce of brains on this stuff before they spew? Or are they actively trying to just confuse the electorate...the old "baffle em with bullshit" gambit?

Yahoo! News just debuted a new little graphic bar with projections and stuff.

So far:

Senate - 52 Democrat / 47 Republican (projections) vs. 59 Democrat / 41 Republican (current) | 51 needed for majority

House - 218 Democrat / 215 Republican (projections) vs. 255 Democrat / 178 Republican (current) | 218 needed for majority

Governor - 17 Democrat / 32 Republican / 1 Independent (projections) vs. 25 Democrat / 20 Republican (current) | 26 needed for majority

************

Does that sound accurate?

Do you really think conservatives will take that many Governor's spots?

There's a huge enthusiasm gap right now to rival the gaps the Democrats enjoyed in '06 and '08. Reid got a gift with Angle winning in Nevada, but no one is enthusiastic about him. He hasn't broken 50% in even the most Democratic-leaning of polls. For such a known commodity, that's really bad. Barring an Angle melt-down, I have a hard time seeing Reid winning that seat if there is the expected strong Republican turnout. Boxer, Feingold, and Murray are also polling below 50% with leads within the margin of error. The Yahoo Senate numbers almost seem like a best-case scenario for the Democrats right now. As for the House, Real Clear Politics' poll aggregation sees at least a net 24 seat gain for Republicans before they even get to the toss-ups. Of the 32 toss-ups, 31 of those seats are held by Democrats. If even half of those toss-ups go to the Republicans, they will take the House.

Of course, a lot can change in a few months. Today's primaries might shake things up quite a bit.

So what are Linda McMahon's chances for winning the senate seat now that she officially won the primary?

In the past I would have thought Connecticut would have stuck with a democrat, but celebrity republicans always bring out the numbers at the polls.

The quantity of limousine liberal money floating among Connecticut's upper middle class has lent our state a false reputation as a "liberal state." There are an awful lot of farmers and industrial workers at ground level. My neighbors remind me constantly of Archie Bunker. It's easy to get them to vote Republican if you appeal to their xenophobia. Keep in mind that CT Democrats fired Joe Lieberman in the party primaries over his unconditional support for the war in Iraq, but there were enough Republican voters to elect him as an Independant in the general elections.

Dodd and Lieberman both have served in the Senate with the letter (D) after their names, but both have worked hard to keep the naval base in Groton safe from the budget ax. This has kept a lot of otherwise conservative voters from losing their jobs and rendered both senators bulletproof against the usual Republican accusations of insufficient patriotism. Even in a Republican state, they've earned reputations as "good" Democrats.

As for McMahon, she's still a political cipher. The Republican primary campaigns here consisted entirely of "look how tasteless and working class wrasslin' is!" She's been too busy defending the way in which she made her money to actually articulate what kind of senator she'd be. This could easily be framed as lobby and industry money trying to pick off the sole candidate who is financially independant. If she uses that framework to define herself, she should do well in the general elections. Dodd's retiring; it's his seat that she's trying to take.

So John McCain wins his primary in AZ, while in Florida Rick "who am I?" Scott wins the Republican nomination.

What (if anything) does this auger for the Mid Term Elections?

Believe it or not, Rick Scott was a far better alternative than that troll Bill McCollum. Still heinous, but it could have been far, far worse. Meanwhile, the Democratic primary made barely a peep, so I wonder how much of a chance they have come November.

Do you think Charlie Crist will taken votes away from the Meeks? The pundits on the Today Show this morning were saying that outside of a small group of republicans, Crist's base demographic would strongly be composed of moderate democrats.

Either way, I get the feeling that the two largest voting demographics in Florida won't be headed to the polls for Meeks this November.

Another McMahon campaign story in today's New London Day. It's still all about the wrasslin', specifically the question of how much responsibility the employer has for the employee's drug overdose. In the unlikely event that we ever get a story about policy positions, I'll keep ya posted.

You mean it fucking gets WORSE than this?!





We're fucked if that's the case. Oh well, I've been wanting to leave this god-forsaken region for some time anyway.

I went to school with this wrestler from fourth grade until I graduated high school. It's too bad he OD'ed in consideration of his family, but the guy was a total dick (he pushed me around in seventh grade because I danced with his ex-girlfriend at a school dance).

When news broke out about McNaught's (stage name Cade) death here in Omaha, I thought it might become a topic for McMahon's senate campaign. However, like I said the guy's a dick, and WWE booted him for having a pain pill-situation on an airplane a few years back. I'm guessing McMahon's campaign staff will be able to spin this fairly easily.

Edit: After finishing the whole article, it's funny to see McNaught blamed the WWE for the beginning of his alleged steroid use in 2003. The guy was roiding out like crazy back in our junior year of high school. Now I don't want McMahon to win the senate seat, but I really can't get on the bandwagon to blame her or Vince McMahon for McNaught's death. He knew the potential effects of steroids and pain pills prior to being in the WWE.

Democrats' Generic Ballot Poll Numbers Drop

America is stupid.

<sigh>

So not only is the Republican Party running an anti-Alex Sink ad here in Florida promoting the astounding revelation that a Democratic president would support a Democratic candidate for governor, the spot ends by asking "What will Obama do to get Alex Sink elected?" followed by a clip of Obama saying, "Whatever it takes." So they're basically implying Obama's going to resort to outright fraud to get a Democrat in the governor's mansion.

Then there is this...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...1-anniversary/
Really...this couldn't wait one fucking day...

Rick Scott is a complete and total douche. Sink has a great ad where she asks why he's so worried about Obama when he should be worried about the state he's running to be governor of.

Congrats, Dems. The Senate Majority will remain in your hands.

I love how shamelessly she's trying to look like Palin 2.0.

In the secret inner Republican circles in which I run, the consensus seems to be that she is Sarah Palin without the brains. Chew on that one for a minute.

Someone reassure me that the Dems can beat these clowns, because I'm a little worried that we're going to be swept up in the usual "Throw the Bums Out" movement we have every mid-term election and instead of getting rid of those that do deserve to get booted, we're going to replace them with these types of people.

I must just rub one out to this picture purely out of spite.

You know that somewhere right now production is gearing up on the all-girl Naylin' Paylin 2: Doin' O'Donnell.

O'Donnell wont win, that's for sure. Whether or not the Dems can beat anyone else -- who knows. What makes me happy is that the Dems that will lose their seats are the stupid ass Blue Dogs. Those guys stink.

There's an ad running in Orlando featuring a bunch of senior citizens going after Reps. Suzanne Kosmas and Alan Grayson for supporting Obamacare, although the strongest criticism against Grayson is some old lady saying, "He called some people some not so nice names when they disagreed with him." The tag line is "We'll remember in November," and believe me, if some these people remember their grandkids come November, I'll be impressed.

No. You're just funnin with us now.

Didn't Stephen King foretell of some of this shit in "Dead Zone"?

*showers, trims pubes, readies himself for camera*

I still can't believe that's the anti-masturbation chick.

All-GIRL, Jake. Back in your trailer!

I tucked it back and everything! Fuck.

Show them "your sister," Jake.

I did, and it tastes horrible.

I'll just dramatically remove my robe and let them drink in the glory.

Good news, everyone!

Did anyone outside of Bob Shrum and Paul Begala ever think that Alaska could be a few months away from having two Democratic senators?

I can't see Murkowski going all the way through with this. If she eats into Miller's lead I'm guessing she'll drop out. I'd still be shocked if McAdams pulls this off.

The inner turmoil in the Republican Party is astounding. I'd enjoy watching it more if I didn't know they were all unbalanced people with many firearms.

So we're what, less than 6 weeks from election day and the Dems have been fumbling around while the republicans drink their milkshake. November 3rd is gonna be one shitty morning. Say the republicans pick up one chamber - does that effectively end ANY idea of shit getting through before the 2012 election? I mean, the Dems have been largely ineffective with a large majority, I can only imagine what the whining will be like with a republican senate.

So Rick Scott is running ads that amount to, "Obama bad!" While Alex Sink is running ads about what she'd do for the state of Florida. Of course she doesn't stand a chance.

And I love Scott saying, "Politicians can't change things." Yes, which is why you're running to become a politician.