Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?

What’s your favorite Winter Olympic sport? As hinted by the picture above, I think you can tell which game I’ll be watching on Sunday.

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

  1. Any sport that has an American in it?

    The hockey tournament is really great, though. The Czech-Slovak game was really entertaining. USA-Canada should be amazing, and the US should be favored to medal should they pull off the upset. Then if the Flyers win the Stanley Cup, it will be a good year.

  3. I haven’t watched much of the Summer Games from 2008 so I can’t think of any at the moment. But as for the Winter games, it’s snowboarding and hockey, even though I don’t really engage in those two activities personally.

  5. CQ Politics downgraded from likely D to lean D in the absence of any poll that I am aware of. Yes, Leonard Boswell is in the Frontline program, and yes, the NRCC added Jim Gibbons to the lowest tier of their Young Guns program. But Gibbons will have to spend a lot of his money in the primary. By the way, there’s no guarantee that he will defeat Brad Zaun in the primary. Zaun seems to have more name recognition now, although Gibbons raised a lot more money by the end of the year.

  7. Usually for sports we have to root for a San Francisco or Oakland team, but for hockey we had our very own San Jose Sharks.  So hockey’s pretty much my favorite sport period.  Going to college in New Orleans I’m kind of spoiled (Saints and Hornets)  but old habits die hard.  

  8. SUSA has his approval at 50-37, which is pretty good for today, but someone said that is below what he usually is. Any chance he could be vulnerable if Gordon Smith or Greg Walden were to run?

    Favorite winter Olympic sport- moguls & figure skating

  9. Also the only one which is even watchable in any sane waym since they usually show it from start to finish. Given how atrociously NBC has ruined pretty much every aspect of its broadcast, it’s amazing hockey is still decent at all.

    Canada vs. Switzerland = very exciting! Can’t wait to see Team USA punk the canucks (lowercase “c”!) on Sunday!

  10. Honestly, watching people, one after another, doing the exact same thing over and over trying to be exactly perfect, isn’t very exciting to me. The only thing that really piqued my interest was a couple of the snowboard races where there were four boarders on the track at a time. That’s a little more fun.

    I do, however, have a huge crush on Apolo Ohno. He is one sexy skater.

  14. for those wondering who was going to challenge Claire McCaskill who’s probably one of the vulnerable Democratic senators in 2012, count out Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder. He’s gonna run against Jay Nixon. And from the article it looks like there is a lot of bad blood between them.

    http://www.politico.com/news/s…

  15. looks like he’s gone, godaddy owns the site now.  sure it became rather partisan after his hiatus, but still, it was a good site.  He shall be missed.

  16. Early voting is already underway, and now legislators are trying to figure out how to close a $15 billion budget hole that has left Goodhair with his pants down! I hope that Medina gets enough votes to at least force a runoff if not place second. Man I’d love to see a runoff between her and Goodhair!

    And my favorite Winter Games are hockey, ice skating, and snowboarding.

  17. Unless you want to feel very depressed. The House map espescially is not fun to see. I know the election isn’t for 8 months, but it really freaked me out to see their predictions.

  18. Ive now gotten additional emails from Franni Franken (Al’s wife, she was very active in the campaign) and Bachmann’s 2008 opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg to raise money for Clark.

    Clark is doing a money bomb for the day Palin is in town to campaign for Bachmann, which Im sure which will be quite huge depending where they have it……  And apparently Sean Hannity will be there now as well.  Her fundraising was ridiculous last quarter, too.  Hopefully she wont be able to help herself come election season and will say something really out there again.

    Im thinking the MN establishment is all in against Bachmann, we loathe her to a degree unheard of in politics.  This and the MN-Gov race, a position the DFL hasn’t held in 20 years, are going to be the two big races everyone who campaigns and volunteers for are going solely be working on.  I cant wait!

  19. anyone noticed that disapproval of HCR is going down? People are still disapproving of it, but that number is dropping. Newsweek had it at negative 9 while WaPo only had it at negative 3. Think just weeks ago it was negative 20 plus. http://www.realclearpolitics.c…   perhaps if we can pass HCR voters won’t look at us as spineless wimps, and 2010 won’t be the bloodbath everyone is predicting. Please note that I’m not looking for an ideological debate.  

  20. News stories about his death discuss his brief 1988 presidential run, quoting his disappointment at the Reagan administrations doubling of the national debt for ideological reasons, to two trillion dollars.

    Despite his meglomania, one wonders where we would be today if Haig had defeated Bush in 88.  Not only might have our spiral down to 12 trillion in debt in 22 years been averted, but W would never played his roll in the process.

  21. http://www.roanoke.com/news/br…

    I’d put him in the middle-tier of potential challengers. Not as strong as Kilgore or Wampler, but definitely better than a generic businessperson. I’d put it at Lean D; Boucher has a crap-ton of money, and Griffith doesn’t have a lot of time to catch up.

  24. I’ve always liked Sen McCaskill for some reason. Her centrism doesn’t seem as contrived as some of the other so called moderates in the Senate. If she wins reelection I could definitely see her making a run for president in 2016.

    Bill White seems to be polling pretty well for the Texas race considering the environment for dems. That surprises me because i thought he wasn’t that well known outside Houston.

  26. State Rep. Deb Wallace announced Sunday afternoon that she will no longer stay in the race to replace Congressman Brian Baird’s soon-to-be vacant seat.

    “We cannot let the 3rd Congressional Seat go to an anti-choice, anti-health care Republican,” Wallace said in a news release. “We must come together and support a Democrat who will keep the people at the heart of their mission to serve.”

    http://www.chronline.com/news/…

  29. Before the Olympics started, I would have said men’s snowboard half pipe.  But now I’d have to say speed skating short track both men and women.  The short track relay was amazing.  But also can’t forget men’s hockey.

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