Andrew Romano has very little imagination. He tells us that the results of today’s elections won’t teach us anything we don’t already know. Well, obviously, we don’t know who will win several of these elections. Will Sestak pull off an upset? Will the Dems hold John Murtha’s seat? Will Blanche Lincoln avoid a run-off? Which Democrat will run against Rand Paul in Kentucky? These things matter, quite aside from what kind of meta-narrative they might provide.
One of the biggest ironies of tomorrow’s vote is that the worse the Democratic establishment does, the better will be their prospects in November. Both Sestak and Halter are polling better than the incumbents against Republican challengers. In Kentucky, Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo polls weaker than the insurgent Jack Conway. In short, President Obama has every reason to hope that the candidates he’s endorsed will lose.
Will Democrats show up today and help save the Democratic establishment from itself? That’s one thing we’ll learn.
It’s Newsweek. It’s Versailles CW, which is wrong more often then it is right.
To be fair, I don’t really think the Democrats actually have “insurgent” or “establishment” candidates in Kentucky, and it really isn’t the case that Obama wants Mongiardo to win in Kentucky (from what I gather, the opposite seems to be true, especially given that he already lost to Jim Bunning in 2004).
In Arkansas, I think the game is really based on whether or not the Republicans have the brains to nominate Boozman or not. If they don’t, then we’ve got a race, if they do, it’s probably over.
Well, I was out at 7:30 this morning voting for Sestak and Trivadi. I live in a heavily republican area. I was Dem #3 and voter #10. I hope voting increases as that’s pretty low number even at that hour.
I will say it will be intersting to see if Sestak pulls it off. I spent a full 5 minutes hemming and hawing before I finally decided on Sestak, and that was after spending a week trying to decide. I wonder how many other’s will be torn at the polls, but will side with Spectar? I was really under-whelmed by both choices, and really, isn’t that the problem???!!!
We were very early in Southwest Philly: I was voter #8, Christina was #7. I hemmed and hawed over Mr. Specter and Mr. Sestak as well, and finally made what i felt was the best choice: i voted for Write In.
I’m not sure if In is a man or a woman, but i am confident that, if elected, Mr. or Ms. In will be a great senator.
I had a feeling you’d never be able to pull the trigger for Arlen.
I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t vote for either.
You know what the final nail in the Specter coffin was for me? It was the obnoxious emails i started receiving from the campaign, ESPECIALLY the one from TJ Rooney bemoaning the “cataclysm” that would ensue if Sestak won. It just made me want to punch the dude (rooney, not specter). he sounded like a shrieking ninny in the middle of a panic attack.
after that, every email i received from the specter campaign just irritated me.
I wish the governor’s race was competitive. I don’t understand why Onorato ran away with that race.
me either. totally unappealing.
I agree. I did not vote for him, not that I think it will do a lot of good. Only thing I can think of was that he (Ororato) had the most commercials….
Maybe he feels like me it really doesn’t matter to him who wins. Sestak will start doing whatever gets him re-elected & Halter will start doing what Lincoln does now–whatever it takes to get elected in AR. There’s not enough difference in any of them to get excited about. “Yes, I know Sestak & Halter are true progressives.” Yea, I heard that crap before. Telling you right now—-told ya so. Same voting record for each that they replaced. Big waste of energy and time for revenge only.