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We should urge Brian Krolicki or Dean Heller to run against this loon. Reid needs an opponent breathing down his neck to shut him up.

“It looks like it is his race to lose, but that doesn’t mean he has it nailed down,” said pollster Brad Coker. “From the time the poll was finished, there were nine days left, a long time in a hotly contested race.”

I do think it's now Jindal's race to lose. The Dems are going to try to rerun the 2002 Terrell/Landrieu race, but Jindal is ten times better than Terrell was. Watch for the Dems to try to drop some "political napalm" in the next few days. If Blanco can't gain traction fast, she's done for.

We should watch Louisiana come November 15th. There may be no greater example of blacks giving the GOP a second look than Bobby Jindal's campaign for governor. If he wins, many Republicans will have a lot to learn from him.

I've only read about half of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (I'll finish it over the course of the month.) It's a fun read, I can see why people like to read it, though I can't say I understand why some are so hyped up on these books that they rush out at midnight to buy the latest book! (I'm not much of a night owl.)

My current favorite fantasy series is the Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain series. It has great characters and a great sense of humor.

Gore chided the administration for what he said was its "implicit assumption" that Americans must give up traditional freedoms in order to be safe from terrorists.

As opposed to your "not so implicit assumption" that Americans must give up their guns?

"They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, 'big brother'-style government - toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in his book '1984' - than anyone ever thought would be possible in the United States of America," Gore charged.

Oh yes it will be like 1984, the 1984 that saw 49 states elect a Republican president over some tax raising leftie. Give it another year and you'll see. :)

Failure to pass a prescription-drug bill would be political bad news for Republicans, who control both houses of Congress and the White House.

And passing an expensive socialist perscription drug benefit for all seniors REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY NEED IT and will likely cause millions of seniors to be dropped from private health plans will be politically good news for the Republicans? Democrats would never have given them credit for it anyway, so the whole enterprise would be in vain. A lesson for the GOP: Putting pandering over principle will get you nowhere.

Has Blanco done ANYTHING during this campaign other than attack Jindal? Because that's all I've seen from her so far.

When she's not attacking Jindal, she usually talks about all the committees she'll form to study problems. Let's face it, you could fit her platform on a stick-it note. Her only recourse will be to get nastier, as I expect it will be in the coming week.

I know 2002 is still hanging over things, but this race does have key differences. Jindal is a far more appealing candidate than Terrell and is attracting a broader range of support. Plus he's not fighting to unseat an incumbant, as Terrell was, and Blanco isn't as smooth as Landrieu is in working over the electorate. Plus they're not bringing in Bush this time to inflame the charge that the Republican is nothing more than Bush's puppet.

Senator Daschle might be defeated by this.

According to the poll, he has more than made it up elsewhere. I'm not sure what they are calling the N.O. metro area, but it's more than just Orleans parish. Likewise, Acadiana is more than just the Acadia parish.

The New Orleans Metro area would probably include the suburbs to the west of N.O. sandwiched between Lake Ponchatrain and the Mississippi River, namely Metairie, Kenner, Harahan. Those areas are conservative, so I imagine they're giving Jindal the bump in the N.O. area.

Apparently Louisiana's Lt. Governor post is not fertile ground for recruiting governors. It looks like Blanco may not reverse that trend (though Mitch Landrieu, Lt. Governor to be, might). Apparently it's a rather empty job with few responsiblities, no one seems too hot on it.

If Blanco is losing North LA she's done. Between that, Baton Rouge, Jindal's stronger than usual black support and his GOTV machine in St. Tammany and Jefferson Parishes, Jindal may end up the favorite to win this.

Here's my two cents:

Pennsylvania: If Toomey wins the primary, I'd peg him as a slight favorite to win the seat. He's won election three times to Congress in a district that went for Gore and I believe he could replicate his appeal statewide. Plus Pennsylvania is hardly hostile to Republicans, with 2 GOP senators and 12 out of 19 GOP congressmen.

Nevada: Yes Gibbons is not going to run. No he is not the only Republican in Nevada capable of running. Until we hear from Heller or Krolicki there is no reason to slam the door shut on this race.

South Dakota: Thune may run, he is probably just keeping a low profile to cool the jets after the Johnson race. If he runs we have a race, and he may well win.

Louisiana: Breaux seems to be leaning toward retirement, but until he makes it offical this seat stays Dem. If he does retire this seat will be in play but will be the most difficult of the southern seats to capture after NC, SC, FL, and GA.

Oklahoma: I sense this will be a close contest. Humphreys will probably be taken across the finish line provided he runs a good campaign and doesn't make too many mistakes.

Alaska: I wonder how much of a pickup this seat actually is. All of the talk about this race has quieted in the past few weeks. Perhaps the anger over the Lisa Murkowski appointment seems to have cooled.

Wisconsin: I still think we will have a race out of this.

Arkansas: Unfortunately, I can't say the same here. A shallow Republican bench killed the chance for a pickup here.

North Dakota: This one's dead in the water, too.

Washington: Nethercutt will give Murray a run for her money and if Bush wins in a landslide, he'll ride in to victory with him.

California: Depends on the candidate. I think we'll get a good race out of this state too.

Illinois: I hope spintreebob is right about this one, because Illinois has turned frighteningly Democrat over the past few years.

I think the WB's version of Tarzan was made to captialize on their success with Smallville. Apparently Jane was none too convincing being remade as a cop.

They actually made another Tarzan series a few years ago, only this one was made to capitalize on the success of Hercules and Xena. Seems Tarzan can't get out of being a mere "clone" show.

WAHOO!

Though I'd feel better if this poll wasn't so much like a yo-yo.

Don't know much about Ms. Harris. But I remember the Rats making fun of her looks. Yet the pic you posted is of one fine woman. I think she's way nicer looking than Ann Coulter. We need freeper papparazi(?)to get us more such pics.

I like Ann, but you gotta admit KH is better filled in. :)

I doubt she'll run. Rep. Chris John of Lake Charles is likely the pick of the Democrat establishment. I wouldn't put it past another Democrat to think he can win Breaux's seat and run, though.

I believe Larry Pressler is thinking about running for the House seat. Some have speculated Thune is going to run, he's just trying to cool the pot in SD after the Johnson race.

If RINOvich and Craper are bleating about unfunded mandates, here's a wild suggestion: QUIT SPENDING SO MUCH @#$%$* MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

*Ahem* I'm calmed down now.

If Republicans win all or most of the open Senate seats, and keep every incumbent seat, they could have a filibuster-proof majority, allowing President Bush to get his mostly conservative (that means they believe what the Constitution says, not what judges think it should mean) judicial nominees confirmed.

If you add in the 5 open seats (I'm including Senator Breaux since he seems to be next to retire) to the Republicans' current total you would get 56, fairly close but not quite there. You'd have to knock off four more Democrats, but if you throw in Ben Nelson on our side then you could drop it to three, which is doable. Still, we might lose Illinois which would set us back one.