Istook is down 31 points. He has quite a bit of baggage and his campaign did what he hired them for and that was to tank another candidate in the primary that had a chance to beat Henry. Scandal has been swirling around Istook for years and now it is coming out in the open because of this. It has been a strange campaign to watch.
He was down that much when he first announced a year ago and nothing has changed. Last time he hired a young campaign staffer who embezzled money, ended up in prison and then threatened Pres Bush from prison.
Istook blamed a Dem site for outing this punk, but the guy is a Republican not a Democrat. He also called the punk a victim. He was told to lose this staff after the primary but kept them. He has no one to blame but himself because a lot of folks said unless he changed his campaign staff and got some momentum he was toast.
He is hurting the rest of the ticket really bad from what I have been told. I wish he would step away and we could convince J.C. to run as it is the only chance we would have of beating Henry.
And to think I have to vote for Tom Kean, Jr.
Hubby and I were just talking about doing what has to be done, to honor the President.