[fideist]

I liken Dillard to Huckabee — strongly conservative on social issues, pragmatic on fiscal.

I would prefer he was as principled on fiscal as he is on social. Like Brady. Like Palin. Like Reagan.

[Crichton]

You must admit, Dillard's comments since the election are strange at best. He has repeatedly disparaged Brady's electability; who's the audience for those comments? He's either trashing Brady voters for not supporting his supposedly electable self, setting up an I-told-you-so narrative implicitly predicting a Brady loss, he's trying to get state GOP officials to "push" the absentee ballot counting / possible recount in his favor? At best he's a sore loser, at worst ...

What are the chances the Combine runs an independent candidate to siphon off some anti-Quinn votes?

[Impy]

Voting for tax hikes has never been “pragmatic”. And saying “(I) (don’t) want to raise taxes, but (my) opponents who aren’t even considering it are “pandering“” is a statement that wants to make me punch something.

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/article_81210ea8-e5ef-11de-90dc-001cc4c002e0.html

Anywhoo.

I heard there are 1800 absentee and provisional ballots.

And also that you can’t ask for a recount till like a month from now.

Dillard needs to do the right thing and quit. I’ll email him and ask him to.

With the talk of redistricting the other day I was thinking “eh maybe I should vote for him if he wins”.

If he steals it though that’s another story. That’s not cool.