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Three major midterm debates last night. I watched Oz v. Fetterman live for the train wreck quality of it. Fetterman established beyond question that he needs to be convalescing from a stroke rather than running for public office. I found Oz to be more glib than impressive, but I suspect he put the race away last night.
The other two debates were in races that are close, and which no one expected to be close.
Hochul is a dreadfully inept politician with a repellent personality, the type of party hack figure who tends to rise to power in one party states. Lee Zeldin I find very impressive with a dashing insurgent vibe. If he wins it will send tremors throughout Blue State America.
My personal favorite last night was seeing Dictatrix Whitmer battling for her political life against the charming Tudor Dixon, a first time candidate who with no money is managing to run neck to neck with the wicked witch of Michigan. If Mrs Dixon wins, the ladies of ABBA will do a special Michigan Waterloo encore in the election thread two weeks hence.
Do the D’s cut their losses with Fetterman and dump any remaining money into Shapiro to try and help drag him limping over the finish line? Or does the fallout reach far enough (e.g. I could see it depressing turnout) that they write off PA and try to salvage another seat? Or do they go full-tilt gaslighting cult and double down on Fetterman?
The Dems will choose option three. They should choose option one, because we still have almost two weeks and the trend is definitely against the Dems around the nation and Pennsylvania currently tends to mirror the nation.
Did you happen to see either of the Illinois gubernatorial debates between Darren Bailey and JB the Hutt Pritzker? That race seems to be getting very little attention outside or even inside Illinois.
Every one assumes that Bailey is a lost cause Elaine. Sadly I think that is true, but I think it could be a lot closer than anyone expects. Pritzker is the most unpopular governor in my lifetime, and it is a shame Bailey hasn’t been able to do more with that fact.
Hochul is a dreadfully inept politician with a repellent personality, the type of party hack figure who tend to rise to power in one party states.
I think you mean ‘repellent public personality’. She’s passable enough in mundane settings to stay married, arrange her occupational life so that her children could grow up in one town and build a circle of friends, and reared her children passably enough that they’ve stayed off the police blotter, stayed off the pole, stayed out of rehab, and earn a satisfactory living. (It would be agreeable if her husband and children had jobs that did not derive from her connections, to be sure). Of course, people who are suburban normal can and do subscribe to all sorts of rubbish about matters abstract from their daily life. The trouble is, she’s a public official. (The abortion discourse among women like Hochul truly is repellent).
I think you mean ‘repellent public personality’.
That is correct Art, not knowing her personally.
Go ABBA.
I hope and pray she pummels Gretch.
She, the gov., is Pure Mutation.
Is it just me, or does that image still of Whitmer look like she is trying to do her very best Joker smile?
KILLBAIT.
It’s her smile alright.
She owns it and the residents of Gotham are seeing a significant sign in the evening sky. A signal of a crime fighter to throw the Joker out.
Dixon. A Batwoman for our time’s.
There are signs that it is closer in Michigan than the notoriously bad local pollsters have been reading it. We have had huge upsets before: John Engler stunned Jim Blanchard (and everyone else) back in 1990. That was in large measure because Democrats in Detroit sat on their hands. There are some signs of the same happening–and there is champing at the bit in the red parts of Michigan to send Whitmer out the door.
I think Trafalgar is capturing what is happing on the ground better than the usual pollsters. Republicans have become a lot harder to poll, but Trafalgar seems to have a better methodology for getting them to talk. Even when they miss, it’s not by much.
The best one can hope for in Illinois is that Pritzker’s negatives will result in some Republican victories downstate and cut into the democrat majority in the legislature. This is a guy that got into a lawsuit with his own family over ownership of their hotel properties, as if a couple of hundred million $ for each was not enough.
“The best one can hope for in Illinois is that Pritzker’s negatives will result in some Republican victories downstate and cut into the democrat majority in the legislature.”
I fear you’re right, Donald L. It takes a vast number of downstate votes to overcome the perennial Democrat fraud in Chicagoland. Even if actual Chicago voters stay home in droves, they and generations of their ancestors will nevertheless vote, early and often, for the D’s. 😉
The Democrats in PA will go full panic mode and drag out the last tool in the toolbox…Social Security and Medicare. I expect ads proclaiming Oz to be a Medicare scam artist and that he and the Republicans will obliterate Social Security and Medicare.
There is a now dead US Representative, Bill Coyne from the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, who ran essentially the same ad every two years…When the Republicans wanted to slash Social Security and Medicare, he fought to KEEP THEM STRONG! What BS.
Seniors in PA have to deal with rising gas and electricity bills and food prices, like the rest of us, and Biden is considered to be an idiot statewide.
Joke Shapiro is an anti Catholic bigot.
I am glad someone else in PA besides me realizes Shapiro is anti Catholic. Media darling. Will probably win easily, and plenty of Catholics will likely vote for him. As for Fetterman he wins on the early voting and he’ll win on the late voting, i.e. ballots turned in after election day. Could be just enough to beat Oz. The plan worked for Biden.
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