There’s this Ron Saxton ad — it may only be a radio ad, I don’t know — which goes: “Think back to last May.\u00c2\u00a0 Why did 45 percent (or whatever the number is) of Democrats vote against Ted Kulongoski.\u00c2\u00a0 Could it be because –”<\/p>\n
And then we get into the supposed reasons that Ted Kulongoski met a semi-serious primary threat — 45 percent off of two opponents.\u00c2\u00a0 And we arrive at: “Is it because CATO gave him a D grade in fiscal management?”<\/p>\n
The answer to that question is “no”.\u00c2\u00a0 45 percent of Democrats did not vote for one of Kulongoski’s primary challangers because of the condemnation of a conservative policy organization.<\/p>\n
Can we get some political advertisements that do not insult our intelligence, please?<\/p>\n
I won’t say how I voted.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I voted for Kulongoski.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I “threw my vote away” to a third party candidate — Keating of the Greens, you would think — or would you?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I left that slot blank.\u00c2\u00a0 But here’s a reason to vote for Kulongoski: it’s a subtle victory for robust primary challenges against incumbant politicians, that they can be challenged and not “weakened” into the general election to a defeat.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t much like the idea that the opposing party can throw up “45 percent of his own party voted against him in the primary” as a sign of supposed turptitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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