Robert Novak reports today: Most Democratic Senate candidates in states carried overwhlemingly by President Bush in 2000 were no shows in Boston.
Rep. Chris John of Louisiana was a rare candidate for a closely contested Senate seat in a conservative state to show up at the Democratic National Convention. Polls show John running in a tight battle for second place to make the runoff in Louisiana's non-party election. Other Democratic Senate candidates running in states overwhelmingly carried by George W. Bush in 2000 were nowhere near Boston: Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, South Carolina Education Commissioner Inez Tenenbaum, Erskine Bowles of North Carolina and Rep. Brad Carson of Oklahoma.
Even NC's governor didn't go.
Brad was busy with a Primary Election during the Dem Convention.
But he WILL face Tom Coburn this fall, the price for US Senate in Oklahoma has just gone up!!!