{"id":6811,"date":"2010-09-10T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2010-09-10T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T19:51:45","slug":"nrsc-website-not-doing-an-appropriate-job-of-mocking-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/09\/10\/nrsc-website-not-doing-an-appropriate-job-of-mocking-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"NRSC website not doing an appropriate job of mocking Democrats."},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is disappointing.\u00c2\u00a0 Go back to 2008, and the Democratic Party’s Senate Campaign website spot-lighted with aplomb some of the Republican Party’s embarrassing candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 The obvious example was Montana’s Republican nominee — the 15 time perenial candidate Bob Kelleher, and frankly there was a pretty decent gulf to the next stream of candidates — who are, in truth, apt to be credible nominees\u00c2\u00a0for victory\u00c2\u00a02010.\u00c2\u00a0 (See, for example, Alaska and Nevada<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2008, see Iowa).\u00c2\u00a0 Kelleher was wearing his Train Engineer uniform.
\nMeantime, the Republican Party did not stick up anything on their Montana candidate, and skipped past some other candidates.<\/p>\n

The NRSC?\u00c2\u00a0 Go to the “Interactive Race Map<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 Scroll around and you will see that the Democratic Challengers are shown for the major races.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t put up some of the lower tier unlikely Democratic campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0 For a quick\u00c2\u00a0demonstration of this example, roll through the Southern tier of states, and I suppose the idea is to not bring any unnecessary attention to these Democratic candidates who don’t have any recognition in their states.
\nAnd you hit South Carolina and Oklahoma — Alvin Greene and Jim Rogers.\u00c2\u00a0 Not shown.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though it is embarrassing for the Democratic Party.
\nSee Jim Rogers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just that the Republicans have bigger fish to fry.\u00c2\u00a0 Go down the “News Room<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Will Liberal Joe Manchin Endorse Second “Stimulus” After First Spending Bill Failed To Create West Virginia Jobs?
\nWill Liberal Elaine Marshall Endorse Second “Stimulus” After First Spending Bill Failed To Create North Carolina Jobs?
\nWill Charlie Melancon Support Second \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stimulus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After First Spending Bill Failed To Create Louisiana Jobs?
\nWill Liberal Trial Lawyer Roxanne Conlin Endorse President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Second \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stimulus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After First Spending Bill Failed?
\nWill Scott McAdams Endorse Second Democrat \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stimulus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After First Spending Bill Failed To Create Jobs?<\/p>\n

I guess the Iowa Democratic candidate, Roxanne Conlin, is just past the line in terms of their definition of who to pay attention to.\u00c2\u00a0 I am curious as to who they choose to term “liberal” and why they felt the need to add the extra “Trial Lawyer” in for Ms. Conlin.<\/p>\n

The Democrats’ Campaign site… they have yet to shift the “Alaska” to featured races, and in the meantime we have things like this in the “All States” category<\/a>:
\nIn Alabama, Richard Shelby is running for a fifth term in the Senate. William Barnes won the Democratic nomination and will challenge Shelby in November. We must make every effort to win in Alabama in 2010.
\n<\/em>Don’t make me laugh.
\nSurprisingly, they do mention their nominated candidates for South Carolina and Oklahoma.\u00c2\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, they don’t pay the races mind enough to stick up a photograph for them.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t ask me why the evade pictures for John McCain and not for their Democratic candidates in states like Idaho.<\/p>\n

RUN, LISA MURKOWSKI, RUN<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The National Review puts it best.
\nOdds of success?<\/a>
\nAlaska has a relatively <\/em>robust history<\/em><\/a> of write-in candidacies, though not all of them successful.<\/em> In 1968, incumbent Sen. Ernest Gruening lost his Democratic primary but managed to garner over 14,000 write-in votes in the general, coming in third (Mike Gravel won with 36,500 votes). In 1998, Robin Taylor mustered a solid showing of write-in votes for governor but ended up losing to Tony Knowles. “Alaskans know how to write in,” Winger said. “If she really throws her heart into it, it seems to me she has a better than 50 to 50 chance.”<\/em>
\nWinger is probably the only person out there giving those odds.<\/p>\n

In other Campaign news:<\/p>\n

… Here’s looking toward Delaware<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0—<\/p>\n

On the local level, her endorsement will only work if it drives turnout among the O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell faithful (mostly in southern Delaware), but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll backfire if it provokes more moderate Republican voters (mostly in the more populous northern part of the state) to realize the stakes of the election and come out in droves for Castle. Because O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell and the Tea Party Express had already\u00c2\u00a0succeeded in getting the conservative base excited and eager to vote well before Palin ever got involved, my bet is that the nod will do more to energize her opponents that her supporters.<\/em><\/p>\n

And of course:<\/p>\n

This is a campaign in which some voters seem as embattled and dedicated as the candidate. Repeatedly, her supporters told Ms. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell (and interviewers) of their anger over the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liberal socialist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d drift of the country and over what they view as a biased news media as Ms. O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell has come under a suddenly heavy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and unexpected \u00e2\u20ac\u201d barrage from Representative Michael N. Castle in an escalating battle for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat once held by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0and New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Hampshire GOP Senate frontrunner Kelly Ayotte<\/strong> has former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin<\/strong>‘s endorsement, but if she wins Tuesday she might owe more thanks to Christine O’Donnell<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the national Tea Party movement has focused on O’Donnell’s insurgent Senate primary race against moderate Rep. Mike Castle<\/strong> in the Delaware GOP Senate primary, the emergence of tea party candidate Ovide Lamontagne<\/strong> against Ayotte has largely escaped the attention of the media.<\/em><\/p>\n

And An interesting Blog Warrior Sock Puppet for Rand Paul on the dailykos site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Does it matter?\u00c2\u00a0 Hard to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is disappointing.\u00c2\u00a0 Go back to 2008, and the Democratic Party’s Senate Campaign website spot-lighted with aplomb some of the Republican Party’s embarrassing candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 The obvious example was Montana’s Republican nominee — the 15 time perenial candidate Bob Kelleher, and frankly there was a pretty decent gulf to the next stream […]<\/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-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","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=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}