Tag: Open Threads

The Swing State Project: Often imitated, never beaten.

It’s beer o’clock. Have at it.

The results for Alaska’s at-large primary are due tonight, and will be announced sometime after 5pm Alaska Time. Stay tuned! (Hat-tip: WestCoastMC)

UPDATE (David): Young’s lead has now shrunk to 129 votes. “Absentee and questioned ballots from about a dozen House districts remain to be counted tonight, according to division director Gail Fenumiai.”

This is tug-of-war, which, believe it or not, was actually an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920. I think it’s high time that the IOC reinstated this fine sport at the Olympic Games. Don’t you?

If this election is a battle of tug-of-war, John McCain, after showing some recent strength, let go of the rope and fell flat on his ass yesterday. And you have to love it.

Olympic races, that is.

Which downballot Democratic candidates do you most badly want to see win this November and why?

As for me, I’m very interested in IL-05 – rooting for Mola Rahm big time:

Have you read Crisitunity’s two-part preview of all the primary races worth watching in August yet? Well, have you, punk?

Check out Part I and Part II here.

In other news, the DCCC has launched a website exposing Freedom’s Crotch for what it really is.

Which GOP crumb-bums do you most want to see lose in November?

Also: if you didn’t get the chance yet, be sure to check out the SSP Cash Power Rankings for House and Senate challengers this year.

Netroots Nation will be happening in just a few short days, and four members of the SSP crew will be there: Publisher DavidNYC, Southern Bureau Chief Trent Thompson, tech guru Ben, and myself. On Thursday morning, we’ll be chilling at the state level blogger caucus. If you’re at the convention, please drop by and say hello!

On another note, the filing deadline for federal candidates in Louisiana passed at 5pm today, and it looks like we’ve come up empty-handed in the 5th CD, where the DCCC was trying up until the wire to score a candidate to take on Rodney Alexander. Well, you can’t win ’em all.

And while state Rep. Michael Jackson moonwalked himself into the 6th CD race as an independent, rumored spoiler candidate Lydia Jackson, a Democratic state senator from Shreveport, decided not to file for the open seat race in the 4th CD — as an independent or otherwise.

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.