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North Dakota<\/a>
\nThe Catholic Bishop has the state’s church priests read a letter pretty clearly asserting who they want the parish to vote for in the Senate election. \u00c2\u00a0They don’t mention names, though. \u00c2\u00a0Because that would violate the tax exemption status.
\nI attended some church services in 2004. \u00c2\u00a0Judging by the weekly sermons, it was crystal clear that the Bishop had sent down an edict on topic focus.
\nMeantime, Billy Graham supports Mitt Romney in the same way he did Richard Nixon in 1960<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Missour<\/a>i.
\nTodd Akin was one of those “Operation Rescue” type protesters, barricading the Abortion clinics. \u00c2\u00a0He was arrested three times, and not the one time he had in his campaign. Civil Disobedience and all that. \u00c2\u00a0 But this is interesting, and maybe a little troubling in the Media Coverage Vetting procedurals.:
\nThe additional arrests came to light during a new search of the newspaper’s archives. The arrests were missed in previous searches because the news stories had listed Akin by his given first name, William<\/em>.
\nOn the other hand, this delay probably is of benefit for McCaskill — it wouldn’t have hurt him in the primary, but in the general election you want a sprocket of information to pop up at irregular intervals.<\/p>\n

Indiana<\/a>.
\nWe’ll see if the latest “Rape is God’s Intent” comment ends up mattering. \u00c2\u00a0As the case in Missouri, we do end up with a “Don’t let the Liberal National Media decide this election” element here — it is something\u00c2\u00a0Obama ends up commenting<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0over, and as the state’s governor has pointed out with Rove –\u00c2\u00a0there is no\u00c2\u00a0white Democrat south of Indianapolis who’s supporting Obama who’s not a college professor in Bloomington<\/a>.
\n… So. \u00c2\u00a0Richard Lugar… where are you? \u00c2\u00a0Can’t you send a less subtle wink and nod to get more moderate Republicans to break over to Donnelly?
\nMourdock tried to soften his comments Wednesday, saying that he did not mean God intends for women to be violated — only that every life was a divine gift<\/em>.
\nWorst back-pedal ever.<\/p>\n

Tennessee
\nWashington Post does its local color piece<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Washington Monthly blogger calls the take-away misplaced –<\/a>– referencing Samm Nunn’s non-component years ago. \u00c2\u00a0I would have to fall in between the Washington Post premise and the Washington Monthly “eh” on the meaning of Mark Clayton’s primary victory. \u00c2\u00a0For the “Did
\n\u00c2\u00a0Mark Clayton, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a campaign headquarters. A recent fundraising drive brought in less than $50<\/em>0.<\/p>\n

Wyoming<\/a>
\nThat article also features one of those rare mentions of Tim Chesnut. \u00c2\u00a0“Chesnut is the best nut for Senate”.<\/p>\n

The question of Most Irrelevant Republican Senate candidate is problematic, as the Democrats have a hold of big state big markets, such that an Elizabeth Emken of California gets some coverage and some noticeable support behind her. \u00c2\u00a0And I basically agree with her on this<\/a>:
\nEmken ramped it up when the\u00c2\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle\/SFGate.com\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shaky Hand Productionsvideo crew caught up with her. She called DiFi \u00e2\u20ac\u0153arrogant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dismissive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for not agreeing to debate.
\n<\/em>If nothing were at stake, I’d suggest that this should be a good reason to vote against a Diane Feinstein. \u00c2\u00a0I’d like the candidates debating their “no chance” opponents for the sake of Democracy.
\nI guess you could murmur at the New England Republicans. \u00c2\u00a0But MacGovern in Vermont gets the benefit of debates, and thus coverage, because the Democratic Socialist Sanders has that belief in “Participatory Democracy” that a Dianne Feinstein lacks.<\/p>\n

West Virginia<\/a>
\nA joke from John Raese. \u00c2\u00a0He delayed his college graduation by a year to improve the university’s party rating. \u00c2\u00a0Har de har har.<\/p>\n

Minnesot<\/a>a. \u00c2\u00a0Yes, the “Get video of our opponent being rude and obnoxious” gambit which is sweeping the Republican grass-roots. \u00c2\u00a0(“Ugh” to the schematic. \u00c2\u00a0Even in cases where the issue is “real”.)
\nMinnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar took an aggressive tone on Wednesday when a media tracker for her GOP opponent, state Republican Rep. Kurt Bills, asked her to respond to a recent investigation by The Daily Caller into her past.<\/em>
\nMostly this tactic is laughable. \u00c2\u00a0Hey! \u00c2\u00a0It worked for Delia Lopez!
\nDidn’t investigate a Ponzi Scheme in the lat 1990s. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t know if this will be the focus of Kurt Bills’s only tv ad<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0And I mention “Only”.<\/p>\n

Hawaii<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0This is a weird line of attack.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it was clear that you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think he was the best candidate to be president because you supported John Edwards, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve often wondered\u00c2\u00a0because you talk so much about women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issues\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and how horribly he treated his late wife \u00e2\u20ac\u201d did you ever regret supporting John Edwards for president?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lingle asked\u00c2\u00a0during the<\/em> debate.
\nYes. \u00c2\u00a0Linda Lingle went the “Elizabeth Edwards” card. \u00c2\u00a0Because… um… support for John Edwards before this story was fleshed out means horror?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Dakota The Catholic Bishop has the state’s church priests read a letter pretty clearly asserting who they want the parish to vote for in the Senate election. \u00c2\u00a0They don’t mention names, though. \u00c2\u00a0Because that would violate the tax exemption status. I attended some church services in 2004. \u00c2\u00a0Judging by the weekly sermons, it was […]<\/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-10671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671","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=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10677,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/10677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}