{"id":10398,"date":"2012-08-27T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2012-08-27T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:34:50","slug":"four-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/08\/27\/four-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"four candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones highlights four Democratic candidates for Congress — one for the House and three for the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the four, I guess Tammy Duckworth is the one “favorite”<\/a> — a gerrymander spotlight for the Democrats out of a sea of Floridas and Texases where the 2010 elections propelled further consolidation on the part of the Republicans.<\/p>\n

The other three candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 The 2 most vulnerable incumbents coming out of the 2006 Democratic landslide and a strange political comeback attempt\u00c2\u00a0 in Nebraska.\u00c2\u00a0 Firstly Claire McCaskill in Missouri, and there have been developments in this race since this article was published<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Her opponent self-destructed somewhat — and we’ll see where that goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Rasmussen, the Republican friendly poll that I hesitate to mention because of its “one of these polls is not like the other” status — shows Aiken down by 10, and Republican donors fading away<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet… Aiken will get his support, and at best we can call this about 50-50, leaning one way or another depending on gut level feelings of how red Missouri is these days.<\/p>\n

The common thread for Tester in Montana and McCaskill is abandonment by liberal national grassroots organizations.\u00c2\u00a0 Moveon pointedly skips pasts McCaskill, and Markos Moulitsas has disavowed Jon Tester.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s interesting — apparently it’s over immigration and his refusal to back the Dream Act.\u00c2\u00a0 I always thought dailykos was too quick to highlight and celebrate candidacies and victories by various BlueDog pols whose offenses were on their sleeves from the start — far beyond Tester’s nicks and nacks.\u00c2\u00a0 But it goes where it goes, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Finally there’s Bob Kerrey in Nebraska<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Mother Jones has to stretch the furthest on him to get to a hopeful chance in the election.\u00c2\u00a0 So we end with an anecdote where he speaks some blunt truth on global warming to a recalitrant voter, who is won over.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile the Republican opponent has taken his “Tea Party enfused” nomination victory and hidden from view — there will be a single debate.\u00c2\u00a0 And Warren Buffet pops Ralph Nader’s dream of an Enlightened Benevolent Plutocracy <\/a>by pointedly stepping away from the Superpac game.\u00c2\u00a0 “I will not be doing super-PACs of any sort. I think allowing unlimited contributions to campaigns is a terrible idea and an important and unfortunate step toward a plutocracy.” <\/em> Well… Nebraska is Nebraska.\u00c2\u00a0 And Bob Kerrey is just spitballing against the grain on issues like gay marriage<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But Missouri is Missouri and Montana is Montana and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones highlights four Democratic candidates for Congress — one for the House and three for the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the four, I guess Tammy Duckworth is the one “favorite” — a gerrymander spotlight for the Democrats out of a sea of Floridas and Texases where the 2010 elections propelled further consolidation on the part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}