In New Jersey school vouchers are becoming a bit of an issue. Meanwhile, Menendez picks up the Sierra Club endorsement and a former member of the House ethics committee says the rental controversy is much ado about nothing.
New Jersey Senate:
State Sen. Tom Kean (R) led incumbent Bob Menendez (D) by 3 points among likely voters in a Quinnipiac poll. Registered voters flipped the
margin, with 38 percent choosing Kean and 41 percent choosing Menendez.
In Tennessee I kind of doubt that Ford Jr. is worried about his lack of support from atheists. Meanwhile, the Jackson Sun wonders why Corker is afraid to appear with Ford on the Larry Kudlow show on MSNBC.
…an independent automated poll by SurveyUSA and a poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports for the Ford campaign showed the race at a statistical dead heat.
In Virginia George Allen plays a game of I’m a racist, well, you’re an anti-Semite.
U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., is accusing challenger Jim Webb of anti-Semitism for spotlighting Allen’s newly acknowledged Jewish ancestry on Democratic blogs.
The race has become so close that some polls now show Allen slightly ahead and others, including the Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll showing Webb extending his lead.
Macaca.
In Nevada Desert Beacon runs down upcoming Carter events. Jack Carter was released from the hospital on Monday and hasn’t been too much in the news this week. Here’s hoping he gets back on the campaign trail and starts to close that gap in the polls.
In Connecticut GQ profiles the race and correctly asseses that Lieberman is a loserman. Also, friends of Joe continue to reveal the truth:
“He’s a man of principle,” [Mel] Sembler, a former ambassador to Italy and Australia, said of Lieberman in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday.”
Mel Sembler, a former Republican National Committee finance committee chairman, helped organize a reception that raised “about a few hundred thousand dollars” for Lieberman, who was in attendance….
Sembler, who is board chairman of the Sembler Company, a real estate and shopping center development company, said he has worked hard to raise money for [Scooter] Libby’s legal defense fund.
“It’s amazing to go to all this hard work when a crime never got committed,” said Sembler, who also described himself as “dear friends” with Cheney.
Nice.
In Arizona the race is getting surprisingly tight. All I want for Christmas is a resume from Jon Kyl.
In Montana shit is too funny.
A television commercial slamming Sen. Conrad Burns for cursing at a firefighting crew could be too vulgar for broadcast television, the Montana Broadcasters Association is warning its members.
Citing the Federal Communications Commission’s ‘‘current stance on indecent language,’’ association President Greg MacDonald advised stations Wednesday to pull the spot or check with attorneys before airing it.
‘‘While we have no idea how the commission might come down on such language in a political spot, we also don’t want to test the waters at $325,000 per violation,’’ MacDonald wrote.
The commercial, paid for by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, opens with a cautionary note: ‘‘The following contains language by Conrad Burns unsuitable for Montana.’’
Conrad Burns is unsuitable for Montana.
In Ohio:
Two new polls show Sen. Mike DeWine (R) and Rep. Sherrod Brown (D) locked within spitting distance of each other. Brown was ahead by 4 points in the University of Cincinnati’s Ohio Poll and just 1 point in a Quinnipiac University
But:
If the election for United States Senator were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for? Republican Mike Dewine? Democrat Sherrod Brown? Or some other candidate?
42% DeWine (R)
52% Brown (D)
7% Undecided
In Pennsylvania the two Catholic candidates try to out Catholic each other. The rest of us ask stupid questions like, what’s an indulgence? And, how much is Little Ricky willing to pay for one?
In Washington and Minnesota the Democrats can barely see their opponent’s in the rear-view mirror. Keep in mind, though, that objects may be bigger than they appear.
In Rhode Island:
According to a [Brown] University poll of 578 likely Rhode Island voters conducted between Sept. 16 and Sept. 18,Whitehouse is ahead of Chafee by a margin of 40 to 39 percent, with a 4-percent margin of error. 20 percent of likely voters were undecided in the poll, which was conducted by Darrell West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and a professor of political science.
