In the ‘10 MA Gov race, you have Deval Patrick (D, pal of Obama) with horrid poll numbers, facing a GOP challenger (either Charles Baker or Christy Mihos—Mihos ran as an independent in ‘06) and an independent, former Dem treasurer Tim Cahill (who is alleged to be a fiscal conservative). Some recent polls show that Cahill and the GOP candidate, whomever it is, would split the anti-incumbent vote and get Deval
back in, despite Patrick’s low numbers (while there is a lot of anti-tax sentiment in the state there are also lots of moonbats who will vote D at any cost, despite Deval’s current crappy poll numbers)
I think the truth is that there is no solution. We are screwed either way.