*Not counting women (e.g. Kristie Allen) who became prominent before they became fat.
Posted on 11/02/2006 11:03:32 AM PST by impeachedrapist
Republicans hope that will be one of MANY surprises on election night. They need them. With lots of struggling candidates, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is throwing a $900,000, buzzer-beating lifeline to the Wolverine State and Mike Bouchard, a sheriff who has been running an intense campaign against incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D), though with little national attention because of her lead in polls and fundraising.
"Mike CAN win with the right resources and that's why we are coming in," says NRSC Communications Director Brian Nick. "He's running on the fact that the economy is the worst in the country and that Stabenow is ineffective. It's resonating, big time." The new ads started yesterday. The committee had previously given Bouchard $1.2 million.
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Confident Democrats are making a similar play in Arizona. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is holding a briefing for reporters today to discuss what the announcement calls the "expanding Senate playing field." He's talking about the Grand Canyon State, where the Democratic challenger, shopping mall developer Jim Pederson, has not appeared to pose much of a threat to incumbent Sen. Jon Kyl (R). But the DSCC is releasing a polling memo showing Pederson running strong among early voters. The memo concludes that the race "is closer than it seems to be." DSCC Communications Director Phil Singer says: "Pederson's cash resources have enabled him to keep the race at single digits as he has mounted a three-pronged attack focusing on Iraq, Kyl's failure to achieve results after 20 years in the Senate, and ties to special interests."
In other Senate races, two Republicans fighting to stay in the game are both up with ads acknowledging public frustration with Iraq...
(Excerpt) Read more at time-blog.com ...
How the hell is that a "similar play". They're citing some internal memo, but they're not claiming to give this guy any more money or support. This is delusional blather to keep their faithful happy.
Any race in which a Republican upsets a Dem lock will constitute incontrovertible evidence of voting machine fraud.
Hugh Hewitt had on Bouchard yesterday and he refered to him as the next Senator from MI, I am not so sure. Anyone from the Devos/Bouchard teams here that have some internals that can give us some hope.
It's ridiculous that MI would re-elect a governor and a senator with such absurdly bad records.
Yet, that appears to be what's happening.
How much in debt is the democratic party going to be on November 8th?
Many Red State Voters have already left, those of us remaining are loosing are margins.
That shouldn't be such a big surprise. When a state's economy goes down the sh!tter, its most productive residents are usually the first to leave. Over time, the citizenry becomes dominated by losers, social misfits, and recent immigrants (both legal and illegal). It's hard for conservatives to win elections when a disproportionate number of voters are losers, social misfits, and recent immigrants.
It is not an optimistic place to be at the moment, I am living it, we are fine, but it is hard to keep a stiff upper lip with the whole state going to pot.
The mentalities of many will not allow them to pull the "R" lever. Sorry, just the way I see it.
btw, Brouchard has a new cute ad with his daughter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg41elWjr98&eurl=
I've never lived there, but I've seen countless posts here on FR from people who are dealing with the state's ongoing malaise.
I'll believe it on Nov 8--Detroit dictates to the state.
Pederson in Arizona?
Blissful ignorance. Rather, puffery. Not a chance.
Dean must fill up his days dreaming up how to be more ridiculous the next day.
They'll be so far in debt, they'll need:
http://www.daveramsey.com.
I thought this was an Ohio State thread.
Excuse me, Chuckie Schumer is a NY guy. He hasn't a clue about Arizona.
Granholm actually has an ad which aknowledges its awful in Michigan then asks how much worse it will be if Michigan elects a Republican.
We stay for other intrinsic reasons, social/faith connections, school, and other activities that once you have a family make it harder to move.
"The mentalities of many will not allow them to pull the "R" lever. Sorry, just the way I see it."
No, it won't.
Nor will mentalities ever allow the Dems to change back to something tolerable.
What is happening in Connecticut, where the Independent, Lieberman, is clobbering both other candidates, is indicative of what COULD happen. There are more Indepedents than either Republicans or Dems, and plenty of moderate people who will never vote for a Republican because of the "R" WOULD vote for an Independent.
I'm tired of ads that force me to use the clicker because I can't stand them.
Here in PA Santorum has some good ones.
See our long list of recent governors for evidence of this.
I have to admit that it's going to get worse in MI. On the other hand, it will get worse no matter who is elected, until, at least, they are willing to reel in the labor unions.
Exactly! I keep asking where they are doing the "polling" that we all keep hearing about? It can't be West Michigan-it has to be Southeast Michigan. I believe it is an effort to discourage republican voters from voting and swaying the undecided toward making their vote supposedly count.
The rat aint winning Arizona. This is show biz from schumkie.
It will be Detroit that wants her back, not us in Grand Rapids!
Your statement sounds like John Kerry's from Monday. I am not a loser or a misfit--I believe it takes a decent remnant to return order.
Yep, and for the record, we are losing more jobs to others states than we are other countries.
Sure, market globalization has taken it's toll just like any other state but we cannot compete because of high taxes, and high taxes, unions, etc.
Did I mention taxes? Especially on the business side. Were taxed like crazy to support K-12, then all cash that goes in to the universities just so the graduates can leave and go to another state for employment. Great concept, eh?
And don't forget the big cities - they're dyed-in-the-wool lazy libs who vote to protect their socialist gubmint handouts.
It is not a coincidence that Detroit is not only the most dangerous city in the modern world, it is also the fattest. Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Ann Arbor to name a few are the few idiots in the class that ruin it for everyone else.
Until all the retired unionheads die off or lose their pensions I'm afraid we're just going to be outnumbered by a few percent, just enough to swing an election.
The liberal enclaves are pretty cut and dried, you know when you are headed into one and that makes them easy to avoid.
Geez -- go back and read my post. I never said everyone in Michigan is a loser or a misfit! LOL.
Okay, anyone got ideas on how we can give Detroit back to Ohio then?
There was an article posted here within the last couple of days about how Wyoming -- which is experiencing a major labor shortage due to the boom in mining, oil, gas, etc. -- has started making appeals to unemployed/underemployed people in Michigan to fill jobs in these industries.
Ohio? Why not give it to Ontario instead?
Sounds good to me! They can have the "big 3"--Granholm, Levin and Stabenow!
We're still mad at ourselves that we fought you over Toledo. :)
*Not counting women (e.g. Kristie Allen) who became prominent before they became fat.
I think DeVos has a good shot because I don't think Detroit is going to come out to vote. Granholm endorsed Mayor Kilpatrick's opponent in the last Detroit mayoral election. This is a union-dominated state, but if Detroit doesn't come out, the Democrat has no chance (ala Blanchard 1990). Posthumus almost beat Granholm the last time, and he ran out of money with a week to go. DeVos will not run out of money.
Great point-and great tag!
"It's ridiculous that MI would re-elect a governor and a senator with such absurdly bad records.
Yet, that appears to be what's happening."
It's the women voters, stupid(sorry not really cally ya stupid, just paraphrasing a demo line from '92)!
I call it "woman's non-replacement of broken car" syndrome.
The car keeps breaking down, she keeps taking it to the shop to get it fixed in the hopes that THIS TIME, IT WON'T BREAK!
That's the way many women vote, things are bad but maybe if they vote again for the same people who are promising for a better economy thru increased taxes and socialist spending, THIS TIME FOR SURE, THINGS WILL GET BETTER!
The dirty shame is that many women don't trust the men of this country to support them and their children's needs; they want a stronger force to compel men to be responsible by means of confiscatory taxes. They don't trust churches or the men in them to come through for them if they are widowed and penniless. The government according to their thinking, while imperfect, is the safty net of last resort and they are prone to suggestions of the great goodies that will be extracted from men and greedy coperations if only the "right sort" persons were in charge.
As I've looked over the broad thrust of how the Dem's are conducting their campaigns, their themes are strongly emotive and seemingly not based in strong intellectual facts...Casey for example seems to gain more by "hiding" his views. In short, the Dems, even the men, are campaigning as though they were women...and guess what; its working...even amongst many formerly security minded conservative women.
They are cleverly stoking that strong streak of passive aggressiveness that women are prone to resort to when they feel threatened or frustrated when they feel they are not being "listened too"(ie agreed with).
My wife has picked up on this..."Well folks just want change...". I asked..."change to what"? She couldn't answer that, neither could many of the other women I work with. They all want "CHANGE", and will roll their eyes condescendingly..."oh you are just a man and just don't understand". Most men I've talked could name goals and specifics and other non emotional, non sexy issues surrounding this campaign. We are losing ground because the Dem's have cornered the market of "vagueness" of ideas and have made "vagueness" sexy.
Just imagine the government and benefits you want and peace in the world and the Dem's will supply it for you...just dream it, and make a wish when pulling the lever for the Dem's and it shall all come true! We won't make your eyes glaze over with the details as to how we are destroying your freedoms as we implement your new dream world
That is the Dem's message...and the fact is a great many women from all walks, including many Republican women have bought into it! (they just won't tell their husbands about it...they might get mad)
It's a long shot but we're gonna fight to the end!!!
But the fact is Detroit usually decides all state wide issues and as long as they consitantly get more votes for dems then there are registered voters in Detroit it's gonna be uphill all the way.
If you want to see how crazy Detroit is go to the Detroit Free Press website on the home page right hand side banner advertisements for Wyoming Jobs!!! and still the Free Press endorsed the Dems!! hope whoever leaves last remembers to turn out the lights :(
..I hope all those Reagan Democrats who live in places like Macomb County and elsewhere will come back to the party of Reagan and send the Canadian lady and her ilk packing...
When I was a kid MI had 21 electoral votes. IIRC MI now has 15 or 13. People are voting with their feet and it is a sorry thing to see. Rats and unions ruined MI.
I went to the website and read an incredible puff piece on Gov Granholm instead. The bias was dripping off the page. How do you stand it?
I hope MI does produce an upset here. It looks there will be no upsets at all favorable to Republican candidates. But people in MI are more liberal than conservative.
Amen
For instance local Detroit story because of the terrible public schools and the Teacher's Unions annual delaying of the start of school by going on strike the Detroit Local School System lost 14000!! yes you read that right 14 thousand students this year alone... and the Union is up in arms they laid of 70 teachers!! Now do the math if being generous lets say 20 students per class they should have laid off ten times as many!! another story not long ago... a anonymous auto plant manager says he has to plan for a daily absentee rate of 20% because of the lousy workers the unions cover for!
Got to vote!! Get the family and friends to the polls. Remember 9/11!!!
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