Posted on 09/12/2006 6:14:41 AM PDT by Salvation
Edited on 09/12/2006 3:40:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Notoriously independent-minded Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee confronts stiff opposition Tuesday in his bid for a second term, the latest race with a moderate targeted by his own party's hard-line critics.
While a total of nine states and Washington, D.C., were holding primary elections, Chafee's race is drawing the most attention as another test of the depth of anti-incumbent sentiment and the erosion of the political middle ground.
Update courtesy of RobFromGa in #70:
Here are websites where you can find the results for eight of the nine primaries being held today. The link for Vermont may not be working just yet. I believe it should be up and running by this evening.
Poll closing times:
Arizona: 7 pm MST (9 pm EST)
Minnesota: 8 pm CST (9 pm EST)
Maryland: 8 pm EST (9 pm for Montgomery Co.)
New Hampshire: 7 pm EST
New York: 9 pm EST
Rhode Island: 9 pm EST
Vermont: 7 pm EST
Wisconsin: 8 pm CST (9 pm EST)
Thanks for setting this up, Salvation. It is great to have a place to come to when results start to come in.
Watch Maryland.
And that will be the only reason that it won't bother me if Chaffe wins, just to make the DBM eat their words.
Yup...Steele should easily handle a racist like Queasy(I gots me 5 chilluns by 5 diffunt wimmins)Mfume in the General election.
I think Cardin will be a much tougher opponent for Steele.
I happily voted for Mark Kennedy for the US Senate in Minnesota this morning. This Klobuchar woman will be as bad or worse than Mark Dayton and MUST be defeated.
We could also use a sober Kennedy in the Senate.
Chaffee is also the ONE Senator holding up the vote to make John Bolton the AMB to the UN after this year...
I think you are right in that Cardin is more savvy and is probably more of a magnet for Democrat cash from around the country.
However, I think that some portions of the black community will be so disgusted that they couldn't get a nominee even in Maryland, that they'll be disheartened and won't participate in GOTV.
Also, I believe that the previous polls were based on a false premise. When asked "would you vote for Steele or the Democrat, no matter who it is?" voters have their own image of who the Democrat would be and could not conceive that he would lose. I want to see the new post-primary polls, no matter the result.
thank you!
There also is a nominal 'RAT primary for Herb "Nobody's Senator" Kohl, as a druggie hippie by the name of Ben Masel might take 5% of the vote, both Pubbie and 'RAT primaries in the 8th Congressional district (to succeed the soon-to-be-governor Mark Green), and scattered local primaries. Of those local ones, the most-interesting is the 'RAT primary for Milwaukee County sheriff, pitting the DINO incumbent David Clarke (short story; he realized that the parties have no say in who runs under their banner in Wisconsin and that in Milwaukee County, you can't win a partisan election unless you run on the 'RAT side of the ballot) against exaggerating union hack Vince Bobot.
The Milwaukee County 'RAT sheriff race will have a major impact on the Pubbie AG race, as primary ballots cannot be split between parties, and many Milwaukee County conservatives will be tempted to support Clarke and accept whoever comes out of the Pubbie AG primary. That will almost certainly cost Bucher the election, as he is very well-known in Milwaukee (Waukesha County is immediately to the west), and outstate RINOs have an automatic aversion to southeast Wisconsin, even before being told by former governor Tommy Thompson to vote for Van Hollen. 'Tis not to say that I don't think that Van Hollen wouldn't be a good AG; if I didn't have Clarke's job to save until at least November (I am in Milwaukee County), I'd be busy flipping a coin in a best-of-however many flips I could do before 7:30 to decide whether to vote for Bucher or Van Hollen.
Could you ping the usual suspects?
I do hope Keith Ellison, CAIR's congressional candidate in Minnesota's 5th district, will be defeated. Muslims with terrorist connections have already won a number of seats in Britain's parliament, and we don't need that here.
This is a "slap" suit to shut up people from mentioning American Airlines.
They are a day late and a dollar short.
Who's racist???
I guess you've got me there. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sometimes a person doesn't realize what they look like until someone else holds a mirror to their face.
One of the things I like about FR, other than educational, is I think I've learned a little about myself in the process.
a ways to go, I'll admit
my apologies
From WSJ Best of The Web today:
The Washington Post reports from Minneapolis on an interesting primary election today:
Keith Ellison is a Democrat running for an open House seat in a heavily Democratic district. But what once looked like a cakewalk has turned into a bruising campaign in which many facts are disputed but a central one is not: If he wins, he will be the first Muslim elected to Congress. . . .
The most damaging accusations, says Christopher Gilbert, professor of political science at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., concern Ellison's past associations with the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan.
Although four Democrats are seeking the nomination, Ellison became the candidate to beat in May, when the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization endorsed him. Within days, Michael Brodkorb, author of a Republican blog called MinnesotaDemocratsExposed.com, dug up two articles that Ellison had written under the name of Keith Hakim for the University of Minnesota student newspaper when he was in law school there in 1989 and 1990.
The first article defended Farrakhan against accusations of anti-Semitism. The second called affirmative action a "sneaky" form of compensation for slavery, suggesting instead that white Americans pay reparations to blacks.
Ellison says he has never been a member of the Nation of Islam, and he wrote a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council in which "he apologized for failing to 'adequately scrutinize the positions' of Farrakhan and other Nation of Islam leaders. 'They were and are anti-Semitic, and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did.' "
For the case against Ellison, see PowerLineBlog's multipart series.
If it's a "live thread" (i.e., one to follow particular developments or a broadcast as it goes on), it's put in Breaking News, so all who are interested in following it can easily come in any time.
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