Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?



Blue = Murkowski, Red = Miller

In case you’ve lost your pulse, we’ve been all over the short-circuiting, wingnuts gone wild Alaska Senate race this week. A recap of our latest coverage:

  • Roundup #1: Libertarians may cut a deal, Begich backs McAdams, and more.

  • Jeffmd’s projection: SSP Labs guru jeffmd busts out the slide rule, abacus, yardstick, and junior chemistry set to forecast that the outstanding ballots may not actually help Murkowski at all.

  • Roundup #2: The vote count schedule, the Libertarian wish list, and McAdams on the stump.

  • Staying Classy: Joe Miller puts up a tasteless tweet and then deletes it – but not before Team SSP busts his balls.

  • Cat Fud: In case you didn’t see, check out the Murkowski campaign’s furious response to Miller’s tweet. Goddamn, this is the kind of Fancy Feast that is fit for human consumption!

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

  1. I have a feeling McAdams is gunna get tons O’ Money from the netroots and disenfranchised moderate republicans after that Prostitution comment.

  7. There’s been much less polling of this than the other major Senate races so far. Are Democrats expecting Ellsworth to tighten this one up down the stretch or are they effectively ceding this to Coats?

  10. Even if November turns into a total massacre for your side what candidates, if they escaped the wave and won, would make election night palatable? One candidate each from Sen, Gov, and the House. Mine would be:

    Sen: KY-Conway

    Gov: OH-Ted Strickland

    House: VA-05 Perriello

    I’ll pose the reverse question too: If November is good for your party but these people manage to win it’ll bum you out for the rest of the evening.

    Sen: NV-Sharron Angle

    Gov: FL-(Pinhead+Lord Voldemort)=Rick Scott

    House: FL-22 Allen West

    What are your choices?

  12. Which Senator or Representative, running for office this year or not, do you most identify with? In other words, if you were in office, who do you think you’d be the most like–both politically and personality-wise?

    I’d say I match up best with either Judd Gregg or former VA-11 Rep. Tom Davis.  

  14. Win!

    Governor: Jerry Brown

    Senate: Barbara Boxer

    House: Tom Perrillio

    Please do not win!

    Governor: Meg Whitman

    Senator: Sharron Angle

    House: Michelle Bachmann

  15. On his Facebook fan page (sorry dont know how to format it):

    Marguerite Elia  WHERE ARE THE TV ADS FOR JERRY BROWN?

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               Laurence Kramer TV ads cost money!

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               Jerry Brown They’re coming – not to worry!

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    Once Brown airs his ads against eMeg’s, she’s doomed. Sure the unions are helping Brown by fighting a losing war against the wrath of Meg’s millions, but he needs a good couple ads soon, so when i saw this i was relieved. A governor Whitman = another incumbent protection map ugh.

  16. I am curious what, if any, electoral implications will arise from former Senator Simpson’s statements regarding Social Security as head of the Deficit Commission and the President’s refusal to dismiss him.

  17. I’m still not sure how much Troble Ron Johnson is giving Feingold, I want to see more polling.

    I don’t regret any votes I have cast, although I regret not voting in the 2009 NYC Mayoral race. I figured Bloomberg had wrapped up a 20+ point lead.

  18. Hi,

    Dr Gill is running in the general election as a Progressive Democrat. The democrats have not given Dr Gill a penny so far, even though he has come close to beating the republican incumbent twice.

    The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) have endorsed Dr Gill and the Illinois chapters have been successfully garnering support for the campaign http://www.pdaillinois.org/sit…

    Dr Gill actively supports the rights of working folks and family farmers. Dr Gill is a member of PNHP and thus a unequivocal supported of HR676 Single Payer Medicare for All. Dr Gill supports ending the occupations (including removing the 50k advisors in Iraq) and bring our troops home.

    We went down the Univ IL campus in Urbana. That campus is not known as a hot bed of political activity, however students were enthusiastic about an Progressive Democrat being elected.  

    Dr Gill’s campaign needs o be elevated on the map. This one will really count. http://www.gill2010.com/ . Go Gill!!

  19. I think this is what it would look like if Chris Farley made a movie about running for Mayor:

    while that was the funny this is kind of like the sweet part of the movie:

    I know nothing about Chris Young or this election but this was just too funny!

  20. I am not sure if any of you have also read PPP’s Alaska twitter thread this morning regarding Alaska, but some interesting things have came out of their first batch of polling:

    1)  Alaskans do not want Palin to run.

    2)  Murkowski would take more votes from McAdams.

    I am not surprised by either of them.  Specifically, I know a good number of Alaskans from college and most of them are conservative or moderate.  None of them like her.  Many used to, but none of them like her now as she has turned into a freak show.

  21. Some thoughts:

    It’s pretty rainy in New Orleans.  Not good voting weather.

    Turnout in early voting was very low.  Total turnout is expected to be in the teens from what I’ve read.

    In write-ups of the LA-2 contest from both local and national media there has been no mention of Cedric Richmond’s more embarrassing moments (the bar fight, loss of law license).  A sign these thing’s aren’t resonating?  

    In LA-3, I can’t help but think today’s Beck rally will be a boost to Jeff Landry, the “Tea Party candidate”.  Could definitely prime voters more than usual.  

  22. Isn’t today also WV-Senate primary day as well?

    And the other thing is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Does anyone else find it odd that Russ Feingold is a really anti-millionaire senator but his fellow Wisconsin senator, Herb Kohl, has money falling out of his ears?

  23. As I posted earlier in this thread I am not a down the line Democrat, I have voted for Republicans and Independents in the past, but as long as long as the Glenn Beck’s and Sarah Palin’s are the face of the Party there is no way in hell I can vote Republican. Their “take the country back”, “America today begins to turn back to God” bullshit really scares the shit out out of me. I can’t help but think todays rally turned off a large portion of the country, I know it did me.

  24. It is actually pretty damn nice, much nicer than the blog spot site anyway.  But I was very disheartened to see the new senate forecast being so pessimistic with his site saying dems will lose 6 or 7 seats.  I then read in the comments that someone noted that numbers for dems have traditionally been soft in summer, and picked up after labor day, with the example that Obama looked like he was in a tie with McCain back in late august, and didn’t come back until mid september with high poll ratings.  The commenter came up with the reasoning that college kids (and left-leaning academics) are disengaged with politics during the summer vacation time, and only start coming too when school starts up.  The nationwide polling seems too look like that from 2008:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…

    What are your guys views on this, I’d like to think that things will pick up, but I just don’t know…

  26. Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson was awarding thousands of dollars worth of Congressional Black Caucus college scholarships to her own relatives and that of her aides:

    http://www.dallasnews.com/shar…

    What is going on with the CBC? Are the members more prone to scandal because they have gerrymandered uncompetitive districts or has Pelosi and Dem leadership only allowing ethics charges against safe incumbents like Waters and Rangel to go forward?

    Either way the district is so heavily Dem that Rep Johnson could probably commit a felony and still get re-elected.

  31. eMeg is going to money bomb the Bay Area, where I live! And even worst for me:

    They’re going to hit independent (decline-to-state) voters hard here, so expect your mailbox to be filled with mailers ripping Brown for his record as mayor in Oakland — and perhaps linking to them to the troubles in Bell, CA. Team Whitman has already done this with voters in Orange County and elsewhere in SoCal. We’ve done a fact-check on some of those claims.

    Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…

    I’m an registered “decline-to-state” voter so my mailbox is going to get flooded with eMeg material. Though my mom’s going to vote for eMeg in November, so I’ll just give the mailers to her. (I might even scan a few of them to show you guys on here.)

    1. When do you think he’s going to drop the bomb and make the “Coats would rather live in North Carolina” ad that, if well done and funded, could be a game changer in parts of rural Indiana.  My guess is that most Hoosiers haven’t even heard the Coats clip yet, given how little attention this race is getting.

  34. Letting Pat Toomey into the Senate might actually be worse than letting one of Joe Miller, Rand Paul, or Sharron Angle in.  In fact, the least problematic might be letting Angle in.

    I should stress the word “might”, though.

    In other news, I find that I’m increasingly bored with Sharron Angle news.

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