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US Congressional Elections 2012: Scott Brown, Diviner of Ancestry!
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I'll be dead in my grave.
But let's see how he works in this election before shipping him off to Washington.
Pics or it didn't happen. Sorry it seems obligatory for something like this.
In all seriousness that's problem the most toxic thing for a potential Arizona republican senator to be involved in, as far as, the party's base is concerned. It's not just a homosexual relationship he had, it was one with a Mexican immigrant. The only way this could get better is if that gay Mexican immigrant was also an atheist and in the US at one point illegally.
If the DoJ doesn't rule against the new district map, it looks like I'll be in Cantor's district. Right now there are two people aiming for the democratic nomination and I'm not really sure which one I should support in the primary. Even after the primary, I'm not sure how much of shot the guy will have given the demographics of the district.
Now it's possible the DoJ will tell the VA GOP to go pound sand and that they have to create a second minority-majority district, which was what the dems wanted to do last year when they still controlled the VA state senate. I haven't seen a map for what that would look like, so I don't know how that would impact me in regards to redistricting. It could result in my locality staying in the 1st district or I could still get stuck in the 7th district. Granted it's also possible that I could get stuck in a completely different district but that seems doubtful.
We're in VA. Prepare to be fucked.
But seriously, that guy is worse than Nelson in some ways and I hope he loses, which he probably will thanks to flirting with running for Mayor of New York City of all places a couple of years ago.
EDIT: Big enough to change the thread title, even.
Boom that's the better part of a seat right there.
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Chellie Pingree instantly becomes the favorite. She's part of the Progressive Caucus, is a former state Senate majority leader (so I think she'd have strong organizational structure) and is former President of Common Cause. She'd be one of the most liberal/progressive Senators if elected
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Holy Cow.
I mean. Just.
I shall jump for joyousness!
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They HATE HATE HATE Their new Governor (lePage) and a lot of them were very upset, bitter, felt betrayed by the Twin Sisters in the Senate.
and most of these friends of mine are members of the IBEW & CWA. If that helps.
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It looks like the dems will pick up Maine and Massachusetts. I'm pretty sure Kaine will take VA keeping in the hands of democrats. If Bob Kerrey runs that means the dems are also likely to retain Nebraska.
Wish I knew the exact said up for all the races, which states are safe for the incumbent candidate/party and which ones could possible switch.
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Swing state, popular senator, incumbent, GOP front runner with baggagey baggage.
They consecutively voted for Gore, Kerry and Obama. Both of their House of Representative seats are held by Democrats. They DID elect a Republican Governor in 2010, and he IS Tea Party backed, but it was a weird race; a former Carter administration official who had also previously been a legislative aide in Democrat Edmund Muskie's U.S. Senate office ran as an Independent for reasons which I'm not familiar with. He ended up taking more than 30% of the vote. LePage won the election with less than 40% of the vote statewide.
Something similarly bizarre could conceivably happen this time around, but the odds are undeniably better than they were with Snowe running as an incumbent.
Lieberman is retiring in CT, so an actual democrat will likely be taking his place. The nominee will probably have to run against Mrs. WWF's second attempt to get into the senate however (she failed last time when Blumenthal took the reigns from Dodd).
I'll concede Nebraska not being rosy, first the guy has to run and then it comes down to what shape the GOP candidate is in after that primary ends.
I'm pretty confident about VA. I know the polls put them close but I'm pretty sure that's because we haven't hit the campaign season. Once we hit the campaign season people are going to be reminded of how terrible a governor Allen was, that he lost his US Senate seat to a political nobody in an off-year election and that Kaine was a popular governor. I'm also pretty sure Allen is going to take some hits from the shit coming out of the current GOP controlled state legislator.
Ah, Scott Brown. Isn't he the one who tried to convince voters he was running against Rachel Maddow?
Hi5 everyone!
They've also elected those two Republicans to the Senate forever. Partly depends on how dumb the Maine GOP is feeling in their primary.
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And we hate Hate HATE our republican governor.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Yes?
*hi five shryke*
Ok Maine, don't fuck this up.
I would feel bad if she had done something, anything to fight against that. I voted for her because i thought she had a level head. And in some instances she did, but not when it came to the insanity of the last four years. had she stood up and said something, anything against the hyperpartisanship while she was still effecting votes and things, while she was being lobbied for so many things, if she had broken ranks and voted in favor of the things that she was in favor for, then maybe I would feel a twinge of something other than happiness.
But she didn't. And neither did Senator Collins. And hopefully, I can hope completely, that they will both pay for that in the end. They've both been fairly good public servants for their state. But it's time to move on.
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I'd look for her to announce a party switch before long. I really do feel sorry for her that this is how she had to go out. It is time to move on- if you're broken, you're broken- but she didn't deserve to be.
Joe Cao. The guy who took William Jefferson's seat. It was Kevin McCarthy over his shoulder and it wasn't even a vote the GOP needed. It was so that GOP opposition would be unanimous. And it was for the stimulus bill, I think.
That vote pretty much sealed his fate as a one-termer right off the bat.
She and Evan Bayh can go be sad together while they lobby for corporate interests and make a fortune. Because partisanship was so sad they just had to retire and not do anything about it.
And then accept the lucrative private sector job being a good loyal little toady fuck gets you as your retirement package from the federal government.
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