More Bama news (filing deadline was 2-7)
No rat is running for the Senate against Jeff Sessions (who has no opponents at all, indies have until June). A historic first.
Indiana filing deadline was also 2-7.
Rats have candidates against the 2 statewide Republicans up for reelection (I always found it curious they have some offices up in midterms and others in potus years, PA does that as well and Missouri for the office of State Auditor) but have apparently passed on running someone for Richard Mourdock’s open post of State Treasurer.
I can’t believe Alabama Democrats would seriously allow a flake like Griffith to be their nominee with all this party switching. Now, Fob James did it (he was a Republican in the early ‘70s, switched to the Dems to run for Governor in 1978, later returned to the GOP), but in those days 36 years ago, the AL GOP wasn’t viable at the state level and ideologically, the whole spectrum was in the Democrat Party.
Now that the parties have sharp ideological divisions, how will Griffith explain the back and forth and back again beyond pure shameless opportunism ? I also well remember what the AL Democrats did to Artur Davis, and he was further left of Griffith (and they insisted on nominating a White that was to Davis’s left). The other candidate running for Governor is one Kevin Bass, whose website name is BassforObama. I think we can see which is more “pure.”