You're right, Johnny, I did forget about La-La land. But the CA GOP is in such disarray that we may just choose a candidate like Darrell Issa, an anti-Israel, anti-gay activist who will lose to Boxer. Rosario Marin looks like an excellent candidate to me, but this seat still leans DEM. I would love to see Dreier or Cox on the ballot, although I want Cox to be VP.
As far as NC, let's remember that the Dems still control everything from governor on down; also, our top candidate, Sue Myrick, said that she won't run. How about Richard Burr for Senate and Walter Jones for Governor?
Yeah, Burr has pretty much been annointed and is just waiting a while for an initial announcement. I wonder if he'll try to announce in such a way as to show up John Edwards -- Burr announces he'll run against Edwards, then Edwards announces two days later that he's running for president, and it looks like he's running away. Gore's no-go probably means that Edwards will be in the race through Feb '03 and will have to pick one race or the other to let the NC D's have an alternate candidate ready.
While the D's do have all the statewide offices except Commissioner of Labor (& of course Dole), they just lost the house and lost 7 seats in the senate, and only held onto that by less than 4,000 votes.
Last night on NC Spin, former Democrat speaker Dan Blue, who lost the primary to Bowles, 'didn't rule out', as they say, a run for Edwards seat if goes for the presidency. He's a good candidate, a moderate with liberal appeal. The NC Spin folks talked about the guv and senate races but didn't mention Walter Jones -- I emailed the show and asked them why.
