Well, it’s election night again and another incumbent went down to defeat. South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis got thumped out of office with an exclamation point. He voted against the Iraqi troop surge of 2007, and supports a revenue-neutral carbon tax, has concerns about offshore drilling, warrantless surveillance, and global warming, He also told folks to turn Glenn Beck off. He lost his runoff 73%-27%. In the modern GOP, no sanity is allowed.
In North Carolina, Elaine Marshall beat Cal Cunningham 60%-40% for the right to take on Senator Richard Burr. Marshall was the more progressive pick. The DSCC preferred Iraqi War Vet Cunningham. She will now try to follow in Kay Hagan’s shoes and make North Carolina like Washington State and California…with two Democratic women senators. Missouri could join the list if Robin Carnahan wins the race there. I’m pleased with this result and it gives us someone to support rather than restricting ourselves to people we oppose.
In other news down South, Strom Thurmond’s son lost a runoff for a congressional seat to a black teabagger. For all I know, this race was between two sons of Strom Thurmond. Of course, it’s quite possible that the Democratic nominee is also Strom Thurmond’s son. You never know.
There are also results coming in from Utah and California.
Go Elaine.
Hey Rahm:
Who is the dumb asshole now? Since the DSCC was investing in Cunningham.
I think you mean Bob Menendez.
Both Rahm and Menendez. Because we know it’s Rahm or Messina who leaked that quote to Drudgico
what quote?
In other news down South, Strom Thurmond’s son lost a runoff for a congressional seat to a black teabagger. For all I know, this race was between two sons of Strom Thurmond. Of course, it’s quite possible that the Democratic nominee is also Strom Thurmond’s son. You never know.
who says BooMan don’t got jokes..
LMAO
SC-01 is the race that young Thurmond lost to an African-American. The Democratic candidate he opposes is a conservative African-American who was one of the three candidate Jim Clyburn thought was questionable.
The Democrat has shown no signs of campaigning yet and might be a stalking horse for Scott.
But whatever happens in November, the Charleston area of South Carolina will be represented by a conservative African-American. The only question will be whether it’s the Tea Party Republican Scott.
And the Congressional Black Caucus will be in a situation that it hasn’t been in since J. C. Watts left the Congress.
Is Clyburn investigating? Is an independent going to run for senate? (heard the possibility mentioned)
Don’t know about either of those. Clyburn made a statement asking the US Attorney to investigate. That is a DOJ decision, and might not surface publicly until after the election (to avoid charges of political manipulation of the election).
The SC Democrats refused to invalidate the primary. My sense watching online the proceedings is that the state executive committee did not want to provide an opening for Republicans to start using denial of Alvin Greene’s primary win as a wedge issue to attract African-Americans. Although the proceeding was streamed, the executive committee went into executive session for 30 minutes, where the real decision was made.
I can’t think of where an independent candidate could come from that could beat Jim DeMint. I think that most folks have given up on this one. Which is a shame. The best that can happen is if Alvin Greene stumbles into a way to keep DeMint stuck in SC during the campaign. DeMint’s plan seems to be using this campaign period to build some national alliances by campaigning out of state for Republican candidates.