Weekly Open Thread: Independence Day Edition

SSP will be taking a bit of a break this holiday weekend. We may still post a few updates if there any interesting developments in the news or if we see another trickle of 2Q numbers, but for the most part, posting will be very light.

How are you spending your Independence Day? I’ll be following this motto:

Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that pre-primary fundraising reports in Georgia and run-off reports in AL-02 and AL-05 are due at midnight tonight. We’ll round them up and give you the numbers as soon as they’re all in — so stay tuned for that. Reports here.

40 thoughts on “Weekly Open Thread: Independence Day Edition”

  1. I’m spending my Independence Day watching this video:

    … Well, that’s not entirely true. I’ll be doing other things on Independence Day, too. I just thought I’d share that with everyone and get in my plug for Walberg Watch and Rep. Tim Walberg.

    As for the video’s relevance to July 4th, I see it like this: In 1776, the American colonists faced a far-away government that taxed them without giving them a political voice. When the colonists sought recognition, they were given no respect at all.

    Now, Tim Walberg represents Michigan’s 7th District. Do his constituents have a voice in Washington? Not through Walberg. Does he take his duties to them seriously? The experience shown in the video would suggest otherwise.

    Yeah, I know, it’s a bit of a stretch. But I made the best effort I could.

    Besides the video, I’ll be spending my day at home with family and (possibly) at a parade. Sadly, no explosions in my front yard.

  2. though I don’t think I’ll be talking politics to anyone, as a tourist.

    Granted, though, I did scare one of my friends when I wrote a post on my own blog about Mississippi politics, causing him to feel ashamed that I knew more about his home state’s politics than he did.

  3. Hitting Downtown Orlando and Universal Studios Citiwalk.  Of course this is Florida, so more often than not the fireworks get rained out.  Then again if all goes according to plan I’ll be so wasted by that time I won’t miss the fireworks!

  4. I’ll be working retail at the Mall of America all weekend so my 4th of July will be spent dealing with shit tons of annoying customers looking for sales with immense amounts of drinking and fireworks in between.

    1. same with hurricanes in Florida, you build where you want but mother nature will do what she wills.

  7. Libertarian voters make up 4% of the nation’s likely voters and they favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 53% to 38% margin. Three percent (3%) would vote for some other candidate and 5% are not sure. These results, from an analysis of 15,000 Likely Voter interviews conducted by Rasmussen Reports, challenges the conventional wisdom which assumes that strong support for a Libertarian candidate would hurt John McCain.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co…

    I guess this would make sense considering how well Obama os polling in western states like Montana, the Dakotas, Colorado, etc.

  8. How do you pronounce Rep. Anthony Weiner’s last name?  My instinct is to pronounce it ‘weener’, which makes me giggle a bit.  Back when I worked for my college newspaper, I had to call John Boehner’s office, and I felt kinda bad being told it wasn’t pronounced ‘boner’.

  9. After the new numbers are in, I’m going to post a house ratings chart.  I have to make a lot of changes to the list after numbers come in.  

  10. awhile back crisitunity wrote a good piece about who might be appointed to fill obama or mccain’s seat if they were elected.

    i’m interested in who might fill seats of others who might be elected VP.  In particular i’d be interested in what folks in IN (if Bayh was chosen and JLT won), VA (Webb), MD (Biden), or MO (McCaskill – Nixon victory) think would be good candidates to be appointed.

    i was thinking about likely VP possibilitiea and given his exec exp and some foreign policy and his immense popularlty in a state where obama is within a couple of points, bayh actually kind of jumps out, but who would fill his seat?

  11. someone over at senate guru suggested tim roemer for the indiana seat.  he would be a perfect fit for the seat and would probably be able to hold it no matter the environment in 2010.  

    brad ellsworth, like baron hill, has proven himself in battles for a swing seat, but we might have a hard time keeping the seat in a special i suppose.

    deeds or moran for VA – check

    robin carnahan for MO – check

    we got it all – except a guarentee of Jill Long Thompson winning in IN.  the last poll showed her only behind by 5.  and of course, could one expect some coat tails from bayh on the ticket?

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