How does your election look?

[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.