I noticed the Steve Novick ad of a few days ago on blueoregon.\u00c2\u00a0 The ad spot for the Steve Novick has changed to one priming an interview on Rachel Maddow, but something about the old ad struck me.<\/p>\n
3 frames of text flash.\u00c2\u00a0 “First there was Paul Wellstone.”\u00c2\u00a0 “Then there was Jon Tester.”\u00c2\u00a0 “Now there is Steve Novick.”<\/p>\n
Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Apt for his audience there at blueoregon, the primary voter who would donate money.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wellstone reference makes perfect sense.\u00c2\u00a0 But I do not quite understand the Jon Tester reference makes all that much sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Is there a great contingency of Jon Tester love out there in the state of Oregon?
\nSure, his campaign served as a protege and continuation of the populist politics Governor Brian Schweitzer, “blue” governor of “red” Montana, and a welcome discontinuation of the politics of the Senior Senator of Montana — Max Baucus.\u00c2\u00a0 At least rhetorically — in terms of policy and voting I don’t know that anyone has seen enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing wrong with it, as it has been seven months so far in the Senate, but I don’t know that Jon Tester has established himself such that referencing him as a lineage makes any sense.<\/p>\n
I can’t figure the “Turning a Red State Blue” figures into the mix either, because Oregon has voted for the Democratic candidate since Dukakis in the presidential races, and has surged very pro-Democratic at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, Wellstone’s Minnesota is in that mix as well — they voted for Mondale.<\/p>\n
Which leaves me with, at least with regards to Tester, the fact that Tester is missing some fingers and that Novick is missing a hand (“Great Left Hook”, as his campaign promises to use as a slogan).\u00c2\u00a0 Is that the connection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I noticed the Steve Novick ad of a few days ago on blueoregon.\u00c2\u00a0 The ad spot for the Steve Novick has changed to one priming an interview on Rachel Maddow, but something about the old ad struck me. 3 frames of text flash.\u00c2\u00a0 “First there was Paul Wellstone.”\u00c2\u00a0 “Then there was Jon Tester.”\u00c2\u00a0 “Now there […]<\/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-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}