121 thoughts on “Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?”

  1. Democrats seem to be rushing in where angels sometimes feared to tread. This is the impression I am getting. Am I right or wrong?

    I am seriously concerned. Will we get electable candidates out of the primaries? The more electable over the electable etc.

    What will happen to the statewide excutive races? These are extremely important. The 2004 elections in Ohio (and the 2000 in FL) and good examples. We do not have good records many southern states. We do not have anyone in TX. In MS we have the AG who has been outgunned.

    Will the Gov candidates be able to provide momentum down the ballot or will they become a drag?

    2. NY20

    The Republican legal team is successfully setting aside many absentee ballots. Is this getting adequate media coverage?

    On the night of the NY-20 election, the democratic supervisor of Brookhaven (LI) was reelected. I worked on a project at Brookhaven National lab a generation ago when it was a Republican area. I am glad that it has come around.

  4. I’ve yet to find a good resource for the latest on NY-20.  Albany Project has good stuff but doesn’t seem to be lasered in on the race. PolitickerNY has good info but seems spotty as well.

    Anything better out there for a NY-20 fix?

  5. I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!

  6. I hear Uncle Ted’s planning a comeback, at 91. Good luck with that, Ted. Hopefully Begich can win by more than 3000 votes when the time comes.

    On another note, now that Eric Holder, Obama’s AG, has asked the judge to dismiss the charges against Stevens, should we all apologize if any of us thought he was guilty? Just a thought.

  7. To early to tell right now what everyone’s plans are but we got Jack McDonald raising money like Labor Day to take out Congressman/Possible Attorney General Candidate Mike McCaul (you can never tell with these Texas Republicans).

  9. Regardless of what happens in November, NJ will have marriage equality in the lame duck session this year.  If corzine loses or the republicans win the assembly it will be a tough four years trying to make sure they can’t undo gay marriage.  

    Virginia isn’t this year’s only important race!

  10. I was just thinking about this race the other day, I log onto SSP and voila, I see this excellent diary by Andrew.

    http://www.swingstateproject.c…

    Most of these candidates are great, the only issue I see is Mark Dayton. A real nice guy and a solid Dem, despite the occasional gaffe. What worries me is that his bigger name – and presumably, his superior fundraising skillz – could crowd out some of the fresher candidates.

    On the Republican side, my dream is to convince Bachmann that Pawlenty is preparing for 2012 so she’ll drop her seat and run for the nomination. Then we just need King to give up his seat and run in Iowa. Good times…

  13. Posery is the clown who introduced a bill demanding that any Presidential candidate produce a copy of their birth certificate, obviously directed at President Obama.  His response to Colbert poking fun at him has the be one of the best quotes ever.

    http://www.orlandosentinel.com…

    “I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn’t civil,” Posey said. “Just a bunch of name-calling and personal denigration. … There is no reason to say that I’m the illegitimate grandson of an alligator.”

    Nice of him to clarify that.

  14. Seems like Chris Christie may have some ‘splaining to do…

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…

    crossposted: http://www.bluejersey.com/show…

    To summarize:

    – Christie’s brother is found to have made close to 1,600 “improper trades” as a top executive on Wall Street;

    – 14 other colleagues, including 3 above and 11 below him are indicted, while Christie’s brother settles a civil suit and admits to nothing (even though the SEC knew he made close to 1,600 “improper” trades;

    – The US Attorney who didn’t indict Christie’s brother ended up not convicting anyone in this case because of errors on his office’s part;

    – Two years later, Chris Christie gives this now former US Attorney and colleague a multi million dollar contract, saying that he was the most qualified law enforcement official in the entire country for this job.

    …

    In fact, this is precisely the situation that Chris Christie would pride himself on investigating when he was US Attorney.  If it was a Democrat and not himself, of course.

  16. We can explain it away with a divided primary like what occured in Oregon in 2008 and that the Republican has been in the race longer than our guys, but I never like seeing us on the losing side of a financial war.  Portman raised 1.7 million dollars.  

    http://thehill.com/leading-the…

  17. Crazy stuff.  First pirate attacks, now mortar attacks on a congressman’s plane.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI…

    A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Donald Payne was fired on Monday at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, but the plane and its passengers appear to have departed safely, a spokeswoman for the congressman said.

    “We understand that his plane was fired on and, as he left, we understand that a mortar landed on his plane, but that they have left safely and that no one was hurt,” said Kerry McKenney, spokeswoman in the lawmaker’s Washington office, citing police officers at the airport.

    “We are hoping that he’s safe and on his way back home.”

    The New Jersey Democrat and chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health was visiting Somalia because “he felt it was important to travel there to see firsthand what was happening,” McKenney said.

    Payne’s original plans had been to fly from Somalia to Nairobi, Kenya, and then return to the United States, she said.

    “I don’t know whether they have changed, but I hope to be hearing from the congressman shortly,” she told CNN in a telephone interview.

    Earlier Monday, a journalist in Mogadishu said mortar rounds and gunfire were heard near the airport shortly after Payne ended a news conference with Somalia’s prime minister, Omar Abdirashid.

    Payne left the United States April 9 for Djibouti. He was hoping to spend four to five hours in Mogadishu at the conclusion of the trip to meet with both Somalia’s prime minister and members of the African Union, McKenney said.

    The African Union is an organization promoting greater integration and cooperation among African countries.

    1. Pulp Fiction the new Godfather in terms of useful quotability.  I often use “I’m a fuckin racecar and you got me in the red” with coworkers and girlfriends.  Someone should publish a book: “Pulp Fiction For Everyday Life”.  Page 47 – Moderate Republicans: Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin but I’d never know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker.

  18. Politicalwire.com reports that LA Gov. might run against Vitter… let’s just say he does and wins… Most would think this would be bad because it takes a away a somewhat long shot chance at taking back this senate seat.  But if Bobby does when then he will most likely  not run for reelection in 2016 because he’ll probably be running for president.  That would be great becaus it’d give the democrats a chance to get a deeper bench in LA and give us an open seat oportunity.

  20. Moore Mulls Another Bid in Alabama

    Roy Moore, a conservative activist known for his former role as Alabama’s “Ten Commandments” judge, says he is very “inclined” to join the 2010 race for the state’s open governor’s seat, CQ Politics reports.

    Moore had been an elected chief justice of the state Supreme Court. But he was ousted from the post by a state court panel in 2003, after he ignored a federal court ruling ordering the removal of a granite momunent to the biblical Ten Commandments that he had installed in the state Supreme Court building two years earlier.  

    1. after they apologize to us for the damage, insults and lawlessness they have inflicted on the country while they held power.

      So until I see George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Mitch McConnell, Alberto Gonzalez, Condalezza Rice, and the rest of their criminal ring (including Ted Stevens) down on their knees begging the country for forgiveness, I’m not going to take seriously any suggestion that anyone owes an apology to any Republican.

    2. It’s just that from what I’ve read, that due process was not followed during a criminal trial. Flawed methods were used, and the defendant was not given access to evidence in order to defend himself. While Stevens was corrupt, and deserved to lose, that doesn’t mean he isn’t entitled to his rights as an American to get a fair trial.

      I’m not saying anybody posting here outright judged him before the trial that he was guilty, but there may be a few out there that did, and overdid it on accusing him.  

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