The New York Times jumps into the Alabama governor’s race, looking at Artur Davis’ chances on the Democratic side and that he’s trying an “Obama Coalition Style in Alabama Race.”
The Montgomery Advertiser reports that most political observers “expect a runoff in the Republican primary for governor, where seven men are running for the nomination, and “consider former two-year college system Chancellor Bradley Byrne and Greenville businessman Tim James the frontrunners.”
An Alabama GOP source is quoted in Talking Points Memo as saying that that Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Parker Griffith's two challengers, Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks and businessman Les Phillip, “are competing for the same voters against Griffith. ‘I'd give him probably a 60% chance of getting to 50 plus one,’ the source said, explaining that Griffith is favored to win but also that a runoff could be trickier for him.”
The Washington Post looks at today’s primary in the Republican primary for New Mexico governor and a donor who gave a lot of money to Susana Martinez. But the key issue? Immigration. “[I]t was Martinez's ads hammering former state party chairman Allen Weh on immigration as well as Martinez's endorsement by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) last month that have been the main forces behind her recent surge.”


It matters little who is running. The first rule is to get rid of the incumbents. We have to take back the government from these intrenched crooks who only work for themselves. Don't vote by party, their both corrupt. Find the best and vote for them regardless of party.
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I don't know very much about Martinez but if Sarah Palin endorses her then I will have to assume she is also too at least half a nut job. An endorsement from Sarah Palin will give rational voters reason to be wary.
I do not like the new format.
It would be a real shame for things to be affected just by people's emotions and to have it result in returning to 'more of the same' that has already cost us so much. There is no doubt that Obama and the Democrats are not without fault and that their actions really need some conscientious tempering ... but even there, as well as for the current drastic problems, a great deal of the blame needs to be aimed at the Republicans who put their political ambitions above all else and who arrogantly and stubbornly just fault and obstruct everything, belligerently refusing to offer any bipartisan cooperation of any kind. They depend on scare tactics and emotional appeals to biases, prejudices and self-interests to manipulate public opinion and to focus on benefit only for Special Interests and the select few, their strong overt and covert supporters. This country has become too polarized behind extreme elements and if that now results in bouncing back to 'more of the same', then we can just expect to see a continuation of the catastrophe conducted by Bush-Cheney. We need more cooperation from both sides of the isle, even a centrist aligned third party, with representatives voting their individual consciences instead of always blindly supporting their party leaders political positions, otherwise the polarized extremist's push-pull will just continue to tear everything apart.
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