I would say it has been a bad night for the Republicans, and it could get worse. Down in Georgia, the run-off race for governor is so close that it could be headed to an Franken-Coleman style recount. Likewise, in Colorado, Dan Maes, the UN-bicycle conspiracist, has a 600 vote lead in the gubernatorial race with 72% reporting, and the RNCC’s candidate is losing the senate race to the man whose best attribute is that he doesn’t wear high-heels. In Connecticut, the Republicans are stuck with pro wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon in the senate race. I guess the neo-cons can take some satisfaction in Ned Lamont’s epic flameout, but I suspect that Dan Malloy will be the tougher general election candidate for governor. There’s not much to report on the House front, although you can all say hello to a new congressman from Georgia’s 7th District. Rob Woodall is the former chief of staff to retiring wingnut John Linder.
Also of interest, Margeret Killiher somewhat unexpectedly dispatched former senator Mark Dayton in her quest to be the governor of Minnesota. She’ll face Tom Emmer.
Update [2010-8-11 8:50:55 by BooMan]: Looks like I called this one too early. Dayton pulled it out after all.
All told, a good night for the Dems. And, since Obama-endorsed Michael Bennet defeated Clinton-endorsed Andrew Romanoff in the Colorado senate race, David Sirota can move on to his next shilling gig.
LOL, Sirota. Again.
To bad though, Romanoff was better on issues I favored than Bennet.
Also of interest, Margeret Killiher somewhat unexpectedly dispatched former senator Mark Dayton in her quest to be the governor of Minnesota. She’ll face Tom Emmer.
Are you sure she won? Because someone on Balloon-Juice said that Dayton did(taking it from a Chuck Todd tweet, I believe).
Looks like Dayton won.
That’s probably good. Dayton is such a popular name in Minnesota. I would give him better chances than not of winning the general. But I haven’t paid attention to MN politics in over a year or so now.
You know the problem with Dayton is that he is an awful speaker. I used to like him until I started listening to his committee appearances as a Senator.
Oh.
My.
God.
Maybe it’s because it was the radio but I just wanted him to stop talking so the agony of listening to him could end.
That impediment may not be terminal – my Congressman sounds like Kermit The Frog and he voiced his own commercials to win the seat against an incumbent Republican…
He DOES sound like Kermit!
I only favored Bennet because he seems to be a better choice in the GE. I feel like they’d be like the Jim Webbs and Mark Warners: they’re not liberal, but if the president’s agenda is on the line, they’ll vote for it without much fuss.
I feel like they’d be like the Jim Webbs and Mark Warners: they’re not liberal, but if the president’s agenda is on the line, they’ll vote for it without much fuss.
Except what pisses off the coal companies.
Doug Heckman is not a liberal, but he is a Democrat and an Iraq War veteran. I’m hoping your declaration that Rob Woodall is the new Congressman from GA-07 is premature.
Let’s leave Sirota out of this. Many of us in Colorado had plenty of reasons to favor Romanoff over Bennet. By appointing Bennet, Ritter managed to fracture a party that was coming into its own in 2008. And Obama did himself no favors by being so engaged in this race.
Furthermore, there are a lot of people who know Salazar. He worked his way up in Colorado and had contact with many people through his various positions and routinely visited the rural parts of the state, having come from one of the most rural and impoverished areas. Not many happy faces today when you bring up his name.
Moderates and even conservative Republicans we know took a leap and voted Democratic in 2008, some for the first time in their lives. I haven’t the guts to bring up politics right now because I know what I’m going to hear. It’s bad enough within the party, which is fractured locally as well as on the state level.
Please, no one tell me I should tell others how they should feel or vote. There is a lot of anger out there, and it’s not all teabaggers. And none of these people give a rat’s behind how I feel or how grateful others thing they should be that we don’t have McCain for president.
Colorado was shading purple and is headed back to red.
I have a new post up that talks about the pendulum in Colorado.
I’ll take a look.