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Subscribe to RSS“How angry are Americans?” the AP asks. “People primed for change vote in 12 states Tuesday in contests that will decide the fate of two endangered Washington incumbents -- a two-term senator in Arkansas and a six-term congressman in South Carolina -- while setting the stage for some of the races that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill in the fall.”
ARKANSAS: Per the AP, "[T]he Democratic candidates for the Senate here, incumbent Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, believe black voters could decide their race, and both are waging an unusually intense campaign in the black community in the final days before the election.”
CALIFORNIA: The top two themes of California’s Republican primary races? Money and anger, the Los Angeles Times writes. “From corporate executives to conservative activists to career politicians, the GOP candidates in the top-of-the-ticket races to be decided Tuesday have strikingly different resumes. But the personal wealth employed by several of them has sharply altered the momentum of the races. The Republican governor's contest is the most expensive California primary in history, and money tilted the standings in the closing weeks of the Senate race.”
“The Republican Party, which has never nominated a woman for governor or the U.S. Senate in California, has the potential to make history Tuesday and field a ticket headed by two women,” the San Diego Union-Tribune points out.
“Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina made a final push for votes Saturday in their bids for governor and U.S. Senate, invigorated by new [Field] polls showing them leading their Republican races just days ahead of Tuesday's primary,” the San Jose Mercury News reports.
IOWA: “While voters in the primary election won't decide until Tuesday which Republican will advance to the general election, the attacks are flying between Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, and former Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican. For weeks, their finger-pointing press releases have deluged my e-mail inbox,” a reporter from the Dubuque Telegraph Herald writes.
NEVADA: “The final days of the Republican U.S. Senate primary have arrived with the race's former front-runner praying she can scrounge enough votes through her formidable ground game, the new front-runner hoping her recent momentum will be unstoppable and a third candidate looking for an opportunity shoot past them both for a surprise win,” the Reno Gazette-Journal writes. http://bit.ly/9AKL7d
The L.A. Times on Sen. Harry Reid’s preferred GOP Senate nominee: “If Republican Sharron Angle wins her party's Senate primary Tuesday, it will be a victory for the soft-spoken perpetual candidate, Nevada's conservative diehards, the national "tea party" movement and underdogs everywhere. It will also be a huge win for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.”
SOUTH CAROLINA: While the Democratic gubernatorial primary has been “cordial” and the Senate primaries “even quieter still,” the four-way GOP contest for governor is “By far the highest-profile state battle,” the Charleston Post and Courier writes.
“‘Raghead’ remark puts South Carolina in familiar place: punchline,” McClatchy’s headline writes ahead of tomorrow’s primaries. “Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says the state's politics should be above ethnic slurs and allegations of infidelity,” the article continues. “Her comments came a day after Lexington County Sen. Jake Knotts called Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, who is of Indian decent, a ‘raghead.’”
The Washington Post on the race: “Even in a state that's accustomed to two-fisted politics, this year's Republican race for governor stands out. As the contenders barreled across South Carolina in a mad frenzy before Tuesday's primary, they confronted at every turn the salacious accusations of adultery swirling around Nikki Haley, the woman who has rocketed to the lead.”
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Iowa. Branstad has his own challengers in the primary; Vander Plaats has an ad showing both Gov Culver and Branstand face to face with comments that a failed current governor and four-time former governor is not what people need. Vander Plaats is probably the closest to the Tea Party, he is always been far right. Brandstad most likely will win but I wouldn't put any money on it. Branstad has been forced to shift far right during the campaign which might not help him this fall.
Roxanne Conlin is well ahead of Fiegen and Krause for the democratic nomination both in money raised and in the polls. She has the best chance against Grassley this fall. Last I heard Grassley is below 50% in approval for the first time in his Senate career.
Grassley has started to use some of his 6 million dollar war chest on ads. This weekend I probably saw 20 Grassley ads. They weren't as bad as the lawn mowing ad six years ago, but he must be concerned to start spending some of his war chest the first week of June.
Vander Platts has a chance in the primary against Branstad, it really depends on the primary turn out. If there wasn't a 3 way race in the Democratic Senatorial primary there would probably be a fair amount of cross over voting. But I doubt too many Democrats will pass up the chance to select Roxanne in order to help the GOP nominate an unelectable nut.
Never did I ever imagine that Terry Brain-dead would be labeled a liberal or a RINO, the guy is conservative, and a fool (he graduated second to last at Drake law school), and a complete phony. I'll never forget when he appeared on Donahue talking about how Iowa has the most wonderful public education (it is traditionally ranked high) in the nation, that no other state was even close. As proof of the superior intellect of Iowa high school students he touted Iowa's dominance in the state's average SAT score compared to the national average, or any other state. It was the most disingenuous BS. Phil didn't know (as Terry Brain-dead almost surely did) that the ACT is a test developed in Iowa, that 99% of all Iowa college bound students only take the ACT, and only the cream of the crop, who are applying at schools that don't accept the ACT and require the SAT, take the SAT. One would expect a college bound student looking to apply at Harvard, Yale, or another Ivy to do exceedingly well on the SAT.
Let's hope that Arakansans are smart and angry enough to dump Traitor Blanche Lincoln and elect Bill Halter to run in the general in November.
As expected South Carolina is full of racists who hate anyone not white, including repugnant one Adultress Nikki Haley. Tricky Nikki should be blasted for her clueless ideas, not her ethnicity, but in South Carolina ethnicity is more important to the racists there.
Going to be interesting to see who emerges from some of the primary races. Really sad that two Wicked Witches of California are trying to buy their way into office. We don't need any stinking Wall Street Criminal CEO's running our state and country into the ground.
Wow, your mouth spews hatred more that BP spews oil.
In the Republican Governor primary there are two candidates accusing each other of being more (dare I say it) LIBERAL as if it is a crime in a state as blue as California. They are spending millions, much of it their own money, while the Democrats just collect money and prepare for the general election.
It has been fun to watch the Republicans tear each other apart. Tomorrow is the big day and we'll see who the loser will be. If any of them win the office they seek the people of California will be the losers.
The trouble with the Tea Party Movement, the strict conservative mentality and the extreme right is that they are simply irresponsible in failing to recognize reality, in being focused totally on selfish concerns and in supporting the return to ‘more of the same’ that greatly contributed to all of our problems. The Obama administration literally has not caused any of the drastic problems, in fact they have been aggressively working at addressing them. It is very likely their efforts could be improved upon but any fault there could easily be attributed to the obstructionism and criticism they have had to deal with.\
After eight years with Bush-Cheney there should be no doubt that giving Carte Blanche to Special Interests, that placating and patronizing the powerful, influential and extremely wealthy few who make up less than 2% of the people and to once again allow government to use their offices and America’s resources for their private agenda while giving the better than 90% majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge, simply fails miserably. It should be obvious to everyone that the ‘trickle down’ philosophy is simply a con aimed to benefit the few. We really need to have learned that ‘deregulation’, ‘open markets’ and ‘small’ government, when displacing appropriate regulations, strict enforcement and diligent oversight by a conscientious government, creates a void that is quickly filled by gross dishonesty, self-indulgence and run-away greed. A regrettable but true human factor is that we literally need laws and the police.
Without having the conscientious and responsible bipartisan cooperation needed to fine tune everything, which has constantly been rejected with political ambitions being pursued above all else, we then desperately need to at least avoid returning to ‘more of the same’. There are significant costs now in turning things around but if the people are manipulated by the subterfuge, then the costs will be even greater as we return to ‘more of the same’. That is reality!