Weekly Open Thread 2: Electric Boogaloo

Looks like one open thread per weekend isn’t enough for you guys anymore. Time for some more grist for the mill.

124 thoughts on “Weekly Open Thread 2: Electric Boogaloo”

  1. to come up with a reason that Russ Feingold wins in this environment.  His opponent has unlimited cash and doesn’t seem crazy enough for it to resonate.  In fact, he seems to have successfully sold Wisconsinites on a Leave it to Beaver image.  Feingold’s ad campaign strikes me as insufficiently hard hitting.  He certainly does not seem to have come close to disqualifying Johnson.  And Feingold’s never had the easiest time getting elected in Wisconsin.  Somebody set me straight.  As of now, I have this as a loss along with ND, AR, IN, PA, and CO.

  2. Hanneman had some ties to several really extremist Christian fundamentalist groups, I’m talking groups that make Focus on Family look moderate. There’s a guy on Dkos that had a good right up on this, how their leader said, ‘We know that whoever wins the Governors race walks with God’, referring t Hanneman and Aiona who both have ties to it. Love to see it thrown back in his face with an easy Abercrombie victory in the general.  

  3. What was the first donation to a candidate you made? I gave $25 to Frank O’Bannon in 1996. I was not into politics then but he was an old family friend.  

  7. I just got done watching This Week on Tivo and they had the chair of the Delaware Republican Party on. It cracks me up because one second he is bashing O’Donnell and her supporters and the next trying to say how O’Donnell is going to win even though in the beginning he all but says they are screwed. You can tell he is trying to do his job as party chair but that he does not want to. He is obviously very angry. He is going back and forth in the same clip. It cracked me up. Poor guy.  

  9. since he resigned from the last 2 years as Honolulu mayor at Inouye’s urging to run, only to be blown out yesterday.

    According to the nice article linked to this morning in the HI thread, he and his 3rd party supporters played the race card, criticized Abercrombie’s religion, even criticized Abercrombie’s wife. Not to mention Hannemann’s anti-civil union stance. I’m not too sorry Mufi was trounced.

  10. http://politicalwire.com/archi…

    With 24% of the LV’s undecided a month and a half out, I think Sestak’s strategy of presumably holding most of his fire until the last moment has a good chance if working again (after it’s success in his primary). There’s a lot of voter’s minds to influence.

    People writing off this race are way to premature.  

  11. That really snuck up on me. I knew they moved the date up but I didn’t realize it was this early. Absentee voting open anywhere else?

  12. FWIW in the 2006 Hawaii general election there were 162,794 votes cast in the 1st CD. Yesterday Collen Hanabusa received 80,300 votes (49.3% of the 2006 general election vote total). In total Dems received 101,773 votes in votes in yesterdays 1st CD primary (62.5% of the votes cast in in the 2006 general). If every voter who voted in Dem primary yesterday votes for Hanabusa in the General she would win barring a big jump in turnout.

  14. Ann(ie) (McLane) Kuster and William Keating have been added to the list and will have access to better national funding. It looks like the DCCC waited to see the primary results in both of these districts before standing behind anyone.

    The DCCC should really think of making another program for candidates in seats they currently hold, especially since “Red-to-Blue” is such an offense-minded name. There are a handful of “Young Guns” as well who are running for open Republican seats, such as Mo Brooks and David Rivera.

  17. as to why the DGA sent Roy Barnes (okay, the Georgia Democratic Party) $1 million?  I’m not saying Barnes isn’t a worthy investment or that his race isn’t very close, but the guy is absolutely crushing in the money race already.  When you’re up on your opponent something like 5-to-1, another $1 million isn’t going to make much difference.

    Candidates who could have benefited a lot more from that money: Libby Mitchell (ME), Chet Culver (IA), Terry Goddard (AZ), Martin O’Malley (MD), even Virg Bernero (MI).  Granted some of these people are running with public financing (Goddard and Mitchell), but that doesn’t stop the DGA from coordinating independent expenditures with the state parties.

  18. Here is a list of Republican recruits who have failed to make it to Young Guns status so far.  Gotta feel good about these particular seats if you’re the Dems, but gotta feel really bad about the fact that there are still 75 seats with “Young Gun” recruits.

    “Contenders”

    Jesse Kelly (AZ-08)

    Dan Debicella (CT-04)

    Jeff Perry (MA-10)

    Rob Steele (MI-15)

    Ed Martin (MO-03)

    Scott Sipprelle (NJ-12)

    Michael Grimm (NY-13)

    Matt Doheny (NY-23)

    Rob Cornilles (OR-01)

    “On the Radar”

    Star Parker (CA-37)

    Sam Caliguiri (CT-05)

    Ben Lange (IA-01)

    Marianette Miller-Meeks (IA-02)

    Brad Zaun (IA-03)

    Raul Labrador (ID-01)

    Joel Pollak (IL-09)

    Todd Lally (KY-03)

    Jon Golnik (MA-05)

    Steven Palazzo (MS-04)

    Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25)

    Bill Johnson (OH-06)

    Rich Lott (OH-09)

    Peter Corrigan (OH-10)

    Delia Lopez (OR-03)

    Keith Rothfus (PA-04)

    Tom Marino (PA-10)

    Tim Burns (PA-12)

    Dee Adcock (PA-13)

    Dave Argall (PA-17)

    John Loughlin (RI-01)

    Scott DeJarlais (TN-04)

    Donna Campbell (TX-25)

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