Posted on 10/25/2004 6:51:00 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Bluegrass Poll shows Bunning ahead by only 49% to 43%, down from 51% to 34% on September 20.
It's because Bunning won't learn to shut up! He's his own worst enemy.
PING!
SUSA still has Bunning up HUGH: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251776/posts
If Bunning avoids any more gaffes, then I'll rest easier. But given the astonishing slip-ups he's made so far, who knows what he'll pull in the next 7 days?
Some politicians just don't know when to step down. The ideal senario for this race would have been: Bunning drops out of the race after winning the primary, the G.O.P. nominates Anne Northup to replace him, and she mops up the floor with Dan Mongiardo. The best possible senario now is that Mongiardo establishes enough credibility to challenge Northup in 2006.
This is too little too late...
Not sure how it works in the Bluegrass state, it's been a while since my Ky. history classes, but what happens if Bunning wins and retires. Does the Republican Gov. Fletcher choose the replacement?
IIRC in all vacancies caused by death or retirement the govenor appoints and that person has to stand for election during the next cycle in order to finish off the term*
*Except in Massachusetts were the vacancy is left open until a special election is held about 120 days after the vacancy.
Sweet, maybe the answer, but then being old and senile didn't stop Robert Byrd.
Heck if he wins let the old coot serve out the six years
Sadly I can't advocate Specter resigning the day after he wins re-elect because PA has a DemocRAT governor Fast Eddie Rendell.
Bunning has become the Clayton W. Williams, Jr., of KY politics. Fortunately for him, Kentuckians have never heard of Clayton W. Williams, Jr.!
Also TX has the special election within the first six months of a senatorial vacancy, as when John G. Tower (R) replaced LBJ (D) and K.B. Hutchison (R) replaced Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. (D).
Old news. Poor Bunning is probably senile. Hope he can hang on.
Apparently, the Bunning of 2004 is not the same man who was the 1983 KY Republican gubernatorial nominee. Once would hardly recognize him after 21 years.
Interesting.
Does the governor appoint for the six month interim period? My understanding is that Massachusetts does not.
O.K. I gotta ask. I looked up Clayton the geologist and Texon honcho. What's the tie in.
"Does the governor appoint for the six month interim period?"
He does.
In 1961, then-Gov. John Connelly appointed the very conservative Dem. William (Dollar Bill) Blakely. Liberals found him so unacceptable, they supported John Tower, who won 51% to 49%.
In 1993, then-Gov. Ann Richards appointed ex-Congressman Freddy Krueger. While his middle-of-the-road made him a good choice on paper, his moderation was so mushy it rendered him a political eunich who had no fervent base of support anywhere. He lost to by an amazing 67% to 33% to Kay Hutchison, who is sitll Senator.
Bunning is not going to lose.
WHOOPS! I meant to say BOB Krueger.
See Robert Byrd.
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