Posted on 06/01/2010 5:46:41 PM PDT by randita
Discuss the primary results in Alabama, Mississippi and New Mexico. Link for results:
Ditto what BG said!
My theory is about candidates with stand-alone mustaches, not with goattees. But, yes, I assume that Raby starts off with a disadvantage (although keep in mind that Alan Grayson of FL sported a goattee when he was elected in 2008).
it’s an aversion to masculinity.
Yeah, but Alan Grayson is Satan.
Are you saying Auh2orepublican isn’t muy macho ? :-P
Conservatives are NOT dead in AL. Recent Rasmussen poll put AL as the top conservative state. We voted 66% against Obama. That IS NOT dead!
not at all. people seem to have a problem with maleness these days.
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Yeah, that one’s considered Safe D. we’ll see what happens.
66% of Alabama voters voted against Obama?
That IS impressive!
Way to go Alabama! And I am looking forward to seeing Dale Peterson elected to Ag. Commissioner come November! :)
Mighty difficult, since Peterson placed last in the primary.
My theory is based on my observation of election results, not on any evidence of why voters shunned candidates with mustaches. Watching election results on TV back in 2002, I noticed that every time a candidate with a mustache was on the screen it was because he had lost, and by the end of the night I was saying “oh, crap”!” every time I saw that the Republican candidate in a competitive race had a mustache.
I’ll give you a couple of examples. In 1996 and 2002, Democrat Tom Strickland ran against Wayne Allard for a U.S. Senate from Colorado; both times, Allard surprised many by winning 52%-47%. Strickland sported a mustache in both races, and has since shaved it off. And in 2002 Geoff Davis ran against Ken Lucas in Kentucky’s 4th District, and lost narrowly; he shaved his mustache in time for the 2004 election and he defeated Democrat Nick Clooney.
And, for the record, while I can’t grow a decent mustache myself (not that it would matter, since I don’t have enough real estate between my nose and the top of my lip to fit more than a very thin mustache anyways), soy ciertamente más macho que Fernando Lamas y Ricardo Montalbán. : )
I don’t believe we’ve had a President with facial hair since Taft. About 1/4 had facial hair of some sort. I think it’s a residue of the Roman Empire. They believed anyone with facial hair had something to hide.
Thank you for the ping.
No president with facial hair since Taft (although a picture of a sickly-looking Wilson with a beard has surfaced), and no major-party candidate with facial hair since Dewey in 1948. Presidents with facial hair were the norm from 1861 (BTW, Lincoln grew his famous beard after he was elected but before he was sworn in) to 1909, with only McKinley and the unelected Andrew Johnson failing to have facial hair, but there were none either before or after such period.
There aren’t runoffs in NM. This was the primary, before this was the state convention.
So Mo Brooks (I hope Parker Griffith is gracious in defeat) and Alan Nunnlee both avoided runoffs.
AzaleaCity5691 thinks the rat could possibly win in AL-05.
I find the idea that a conservative district could be a rat pickup for Pelosi this year to be unfathomable no matter what the local rat strength is of the district. Rat pickups unlike diamonds will be rare this year.
In Arkansas 2 Joyce Elliott, a black female far left rat state Senator faces the State House Speaker in the runoff. Speaker says he’s electable, NAACP say that’s a racist code word. If Joyce Elliott wins you can mark AR-2 down as a certain pickup.
John Sanchez won the LT Governor nod in New Mexico. The first time in state History either party has had 2 Hispanic running mates for Gov and LT.
Martinez they are saying is the first Hispanic woman to become a major party Gubernatorial nominee in any state.
Tom Dewey was a great disappointment.
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