How does your election look?

[Undertoad]

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.

[glatt]

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.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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.

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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.

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.