How does your election look?
 

PA 10th
This is a hardcore GOP district, but even here Rep. Sherwood (R) might be in trouble. Interestingly, its a sex scandal here as well but just an old fashioned hetero one layered on the disatisfaction with Bush. Statewide Santorum played the right wing scold too many times for PA voters so he's in trouble. Despite spectacular name recognition, Swann doesn't seem to be getting any traction, he should have waited for the Dems to get on our nerves the way the Reps have. Our state rep Tina Pickett (R) will be fine because everybody knows and likes her.

PA-US 7th
20-year incumbent and Boeing buddy Curt Weldon (R) is threatened by upstart Navy Vice-Adm. (Ret.) Joe Sestak (D). The race is considered a dead heat and is one of the high-profile congressional seats. This is the hardest pick for me because Weldon has been fierce on the GWoT but is also a bit of a loose cannon and has many votes I disagree with.

Republican incumbent senator George Allen was a shoe-in against republican-in-democrat's-clothing challenger Jim Webb. Then George Allen made some stupid snide somewhat racist remarks on camera. That changed the momentum. Now more racial allegations are coming out against him. Poor George just can't seem to get this thing back on track.

Yesterday I saw a George Allen sign in a median strip with a handmade sign saying "is a racist" stuck in the ground right next to it. It doesn't look too good for him.

All the repubican ads I've been seeing are about taxes - trying to appeal to the old stereotype of repubicans. I think with all the other shit that's going down that's that tactic isn't going to fly. Taxes wouldn't have to be so high if federal spending wasn't being sucked up by the war, tax cuts on the rich, scandals, corporate wefare, and the rest of that crap. Curt himself has dumped huge quantities of tax money into the Osprey, with little to show.

He's your basic spend-and-don't-tax Republican.

Locally, we've got the Minnesota 5th, which looks like it's going to produce the first Muslim Representative, ever, Keith Ellison (the race is his to lose). The Senate race is between Mark Kennedy (essentially a party-line walker) and Amy Klobuchar, who's been a good state attorney general (I think she's ahead by 20+ points). The Rep. seat that Kennedy is leaving to run for Senator is the 6th, which is a statistical dead heat, though I think the Demcratic candidate, Patty Wetterling (the first person in the country to run Foley related TV ads) will probably pull it out.

Is she the lady whose child was abducted?

Kinky Friedman for Governor of Texas...
 

In Ohio:

Hoping to gain democratic governor in the form of Ted Strickland. Blackwell is too busy kissing Coulter's ass at Right to Life lynchings, er, I mean gatherings. Taft screwed us over for toooooooooo long; he can live off the profits of his corrupt leadership (coins, et al.) Also, Senator DeWine needs to GO. My ex father-in-law once described DeWine as a little dog in the tall grass, always jumping up to see what everyone else is doing.
I suspect our congressman Boehner will win because of the money that the big wigs in this little pond of a town throw at him...and the ladies think he's SO cute. :greenface

Pray for us!

I'd vote for Kinky in a heartbeat.

I took " How does your election look?" literally . . .

Montezuma County, Colorado is probably not going to make a huge difference in Colorado's over-all election results. There are only around 16,000 registered voters here, about half are registered Republicans, and the other half is split pretty evenly between Democrat and Independent. Incumbent Congressman Roy Salazar (D) is up for re-election, and I think he has a good chance of winning this district because he is an Hispanic farmer from the near-by San Luis Valley. He'll get the vote from Montezuma County because its composed mostly of farmers and ranchers and has a high percentage of Hispanic and Native American voters.

The big topic of conversation around these parts is the unsually wet weather which is playing havoc with the bean harvest. Look for coming higher prices on your pintos, folks.

Montezuma County, over and out.

Yes.

Outside of potatoes, I can't imagine a cheaper staple than dry beans. I suspect demand won't be supressed much by price. I hope your farmers make it.

I got nothin...

The only election that counts in DC is the Democratic primary, and that was last month. And it doesn't count for much.

Though a friend of my mom's won "Shadow Senator". He had a couple of things going for him: 1) his name was first on the ballot in a completely worthless position, and 2) his name was the same as a fairly popular mayoral candidate who dropped out of the race. Apparently some people thought they were giving the mayoral candidate a consolation vote.

He got more votes than the guy who won the mayoral race.

???
 

DC has a representation issue.

"Shadow Senator" = unpaid DC statehood lobbyist

I don't understand why that quaint law that prevents residents of DC from voting hasn't been repealed. What gives there, anyhow? :confused:

Maybe you should move to Arlington or Alexandria. The metro was a nice way to get around last time I visited your part of the world.

The "quaint law" is the Constitution. DC isn't a state, so it has no (real)representation in Congress. Either statehood, a merger into Maryland, or a Constitutional Amendment is needed.

And the reason this has no traction is that it would be guaranteed Democratic votes, and would require 2/3 votes in Congress. That's why there was a recent proposed compromise (probably unconstitutional) to give DC one representative and give an extra representative to Utah to balance it out.

Weldon has the official gratitude of the union for keeping the plant open when Boeing handed it of to the newly acquired Macdonald Douglas and they wanted to move the operations elsewhere, but the rank and file are split on his being a Bush sucking idiot.

The muck raking is in high gear, according to my mailbox. Weldon's campaign has the stink of Carl Rove and Sestak's is responding in kind. Hence these two, 4 page, glossy, color, foldouts that came yesterday.
Weldon claims Admiral Sestak was mean to his subordinates.
Sestak claims Weldon's daughter got $20grand a month plus 10% of any business Daddy threw at the Russian contractors she worked for.
Weldon claims to be for property tax relief.
Sestak says, me too.
Voters knee jerk at the sound of property tax relief, forgetting that is a state/local problem, the federal reps aren't directly concerned with.

Yeah, yeah, I know...... unfunded federal mandates, etc. etc.... don't worry, they don't need the feds to think of ways to spend more your money.:rolleyes:

And since when has anybody cared about the Constitution? If they can get rid of Habeus Corpus, surely they could throw in giving DC a representative while they're at it. I mean, what the hell? :right:

That's where the second paragraph enters the picture. The people removing habeas aren't likely to give DC a vote.

Yup. Her son, Jacob. She's a pretty savvy politician, but, in my opinion, she's been milking that aspect of her life too much (that's how she opened her first TV ad..."I'm Patty Wetterling, and my child, Jacob, disappeared..."). I understand that her son disappeared, and that's more awful than I can possibly imagine, but that doesn't define who she is or how she's going to represent me in the District. That being said, I'd still vote for her, since her opponent is a spiteful bitch.

i am soooo resisting the urge to post a
How does your erection look?
clone thread.

mainly because the ag'ers introduced clone threads to me, and i'm attempting to maintain my superiority to those clowns. secretly, i think they're funny, and i wish i had come up with it myself.

If anyone remembered Ikes password the deceased President might help you out, but noone remembers...

Throw the Bums Out!

I'm in a very GOP area (duh, Ohio) but it's not lookin' good for the Reps in office.

Um didn't look good last time either but "somehow" enough votes appeared. [intentional]Don't count your chickens, till they come home to roost.[/mixed metaphor]

Forgot to mention that the Dem candidate for Colorado governor is pulling steadily ahead in the polls in this Republican state. Very interesting.

PA-7

It's all over for Weldon as he is now investigated by the FBI for setting up a fake firm for his daughter... and making $1M from it.

I can see setting up your kin but trading your influence to make a mint of moolah? It looks really bad for the guy, and I will be voting against him if he remains in office.

Of course it's, "a federal law enforcement official said" at this point, but remembering much of the details from two years ago and knowing he's a scumbag, it's certainly not hard to believe the allegations are true.

With luck, he crossed the Russian mob, too. ;)

Bushy came to the 10th yesterday to photo op with Sherwood. He talked about Mrs. Sherwood forgiving Don for being a dirtbag. Maybe he's trying to get a similar clean slate from Laura?

I got a lovely flier today explaining that Chris Carney, Sherwoods opponent, was the one who mislead the country about Iraq.