Posted on 10/23/2004 8:44:25 PM PDT by DixieOklahoma
check out real clear politics, we are ahead in every senate race (including Colorado) except Alaska.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Senate.html
So you think AK is gone? (Just curious, I kind of do, too.. and we sort of deserve it. Nepotism bites.)
Nah -- Coors will win. (And I base that on nothing but my gut. LOL! The only two seats I think we'll lose are IL and probably AK.)
The only one who will tell Byrd his time in public life is over is The Almighty. For a guy who's got shrines to himself all over the state and shoveled enough pork into WV, people there obviously like the guy.
Barring voter fraud on the reservations. Thune has a chance of sending Daschle back home packing.
I wouldn't trust some of these polls, which don't account for voter fraud that possibly could spring up.
Age has nothing to do with public officials. Bill Clinton for example will be collecting retirement benefits from the taxpayers until the day he dies.
I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are but I wouldn't put any money on Coors. He's not a bad guy and, I think, could grow into the job, but he may not get the opportunity. And, once Salazar gets in, he'll be difficult to remove.
I do think so, and it is bizarre.
Wisconsin is gone. I would not be surprised to see Bush do a last minute swing through NM, OR, then . . . up to ALASKA and . . . yep, HAWAII on election eve !!
In theory, yes and now. Actually, we need 60 votes---but you can't count on Chafee. I'm convinced if we actually GOT the 60 GOP Senate votes, he would bolt. On the other hand, Landrieu could be cut in on a deal (a promise, for ex., from Bush not to campaign against her, or something like that); Nelson of NE might not switch, but he might vote with us. Dayton could be under a LOT of pressure.
Actually, Michels got within 5 of Feingold before slipping back.
There were a couple, but since Arnold endorsed Jones, that was good enough for many people.
Oh please - there is NO SUCH THING as a centrist Democrat anymore:
First, Salazar is now kowtowing to the NEA on education:
http://salazarvcoors.blogspot.com/2004/08/salazar-on-education.html
he thinks 40% increase in Federal education spending in 4 years is 'underfunding'.
Slazar is campaigning with a candidate who's record is more liberal than Ted Kennedy:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254929/posts
This after playing the usual 'i'm the independent' game with voters:
http://salazarvcoors.blogspot.com/2004/09/salazar-im-independent-one.html
It aint working - with Salazar you are getting a tax hiker -
someone with the Kerry position on abortion -
http://salazarvcoors.blogspot.com/2004/09/more-thoughts-on-debate-and-campaign.html
Salazar is a Liberal and lawyer and he is in lockstep with the national Liberal Democrats (as he HAS to be to get anywhere in the US Senate Democratic caucus - viz. Zell Miller) ... Coors will win.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041019-103105-2826r.htm
Schaffer would have been great, but
Coors will be good on keeping Govt spending in check.
WI may bbe gone for the senate, but not the white house. He's going to be there on a bus trip this week.
AK and hawaii are out of the question - HI is just too far away even by jet to justify 4 electoral votes that could be gained elsewhere.
I think that Lisa is gaining ground and I think that she will win Alaska. We are definitely not in to nepotism here in this state but we certainly don't won't Ted Stevens to loose the powerful seats he has in DC.
The way I understand it increases based on their number of years in congress/Senate. I can't remember now where I saw the breakdown, but it's substantial.
Well then Arnold better get out the vote for Jones this week!
I HOPE Coors wins... we can't lose Colorado to the Dems! We all need to donate to Thune in S. Dakota so he can run his add against Dashel -- good ad. I sent some money to him last night. I will celebrate big time if we get rid of Dashel!!!!!
I live a block from Mollohan's official "residence" here in Fairmont, WV and I haven't seen him in the neighborhood for about 10 years (except for coming back for one day for the funeral of his father, the previous Congressman, for whom people think they're voting all these years).
Historically, Mollohan (D-"WV") gets 70% to 30% over a nobody GOP candidate when someone files. This year, County Commissioner Alan Parks running for the current congressional seat will be guaranteed at least 36% (the statewide percentage Jay Wolfe (R, $150,000 budget) got against Rockefeller (D-"WV", $15,000,000 available) in 2002) and probably 40+%, and can position himself for the possible open seat which could be in 2006.
There's a lot of healthy mistrust of Mollohan around Fairmont, based on his positions on the possible closing of Fairmont Hospital, the destruction of the residential east side of the river which now looks like a ghost town for his unfunded I-79 Connector to nowhere, the gambling issue, his ownership of the Ramada Inn in Morgantown and possible tie-in with that to his perceived opposition to the I-68 extension west, and much more. You'd think if he wants to be the emperor here he could show up more.
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