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An interesting enough group.\u00c2\u00a0 Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, Bob Bennett of Utah, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and John McCain of Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 Specter and Crist are the two who fled the Republican Party once it became clear their party was set on nominating somebody else.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know who holds the title for least insincere — Specter simply joined (rejoined, as the case be) the Democratic Party, while Crist seems dead set on not saying who he will caucus with in the Senate:\u00c2\u00a0 “I’m going to caucus with the people of Florida and whoever will help them<\/em>.” John McCain’s Approval rating has nose-dived<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He still leads his primary opponent by double digits.\u00c2\u00a0 He still leads the Democratic opponent by a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 The conventional wisdom is that the Democratic Party candidate, Rodney Glassman, only has a chance with JD Hayworth.\u00c2\u00a0 This is probably the truth, but I wonder.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about a guy claiming to have never called himself a “Maverick” and someone who, regardless of the merits of the proposals and the Arizona public’s stances, is running against his previous stands on Immigration and to the new Law.<\/p>\n The thing I can say about Bob Bennett comes from how his conservative opponent can slip this tidbit into wikipedia<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Bennett was rated one of the ten most liberal Republicans in the Senate, Top 10 Senate RINOs by the conservative magazine Human Events.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>No Kidding!\u00c2\u00a0 In a Senate\u00c2\u00a0caucus that regularly votes en masse in a block, and out of forty.\u00c2\u00a0 (This is pre-Scott Brown).\u00c2\u00a0 He stands at number 9, suggesting he’d still be on the list even as Scott Brown knocks that great Liberal Bastion, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, off the list. So… of the group, McCain appears to be in the best position, though well disliked.\u00c2\u00a0 Arlen Specter has an above-average shot of survival.\u00c2\u00a0 The other two?\u00c2\u00a0 Fork and stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting enough group.\u00c2\u00a0 Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, Bob Bennett of Utah, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and John McCain of Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 Specter and Crist are the two who fled the Republican Party once it became clear their party was set on nominating somebody else.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know who holds the title for least insincere […]<\/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-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe opens the door for a possible Democratic victory in Kendrick Meek.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe not.\u00c2\u00a0 Nate Silver swears by this analysis,<\/a> perhaps because it generously picks up from him.\u00c2\u00a0 At any rate, the prognosis for Meek looks better than it does in a two way race — though I don’t quite know where you peg yourself on the generic “center — Liberal” point in that electorate in this year.<\/p>\n
\nIncidentally, he won the 1992 Republican primary against … his primary opponent being another millionaire with prominent LDS forebears<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Of Course!\u00c2\u00a0 The Democrats don’t have a snot’s chance in Utah, but I suggest they run Steve Young, great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, NFL Hall of Famer and… I don’t know?\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n