It's like the Oberweis fan club. You'd think after he FINALLY got elected to a LOCAL office in 2012, a light bulb would go on in his supporters heads and tell them "gee, maybe he would have been elected a long time ago if we HADN'T constantly touted him for statewide office over and over again" Instead, the first thing they did is start ANOTHER effort to "draft" him for a statewide race he can't win.
Some of these "conservative activists" seem to be on a steady diet of Stupid pills.
Speaking of Oberweis.
Primary poll from NJ-3, McArthur 46%, Lonegan 35%.
That’s good news for holding the seat.
Another premier example of a state that badly needs a primary runoff. Thompson gets 34% and marches off with the nomination, barely 3% ahead of Hovde. I endorsed Speaker Fitzgerald (who placed 4th), but in a runoff, would’ve gone with Hovde. I stated my belief that Thompson was too old to be running a race to begin a Senate career (when he should’ve run back in 1994 or 1998 and been concluding his time in office).
More than a few FReepers maintained Thompson could win, even with a campaign set on auto-pilot (or floating that ridiculous YouTube video where he was shown exercising, to try to dispel the concerns about his age, trying to ape Strom Thurmond of yore), but that surely went out the window.
I think Baldwin should be a one-term wonder, although depending upon whom the President is in 2018 could effect it one way or the other. If Hillary wins, she’s probably toast. A Republican win probably ups her chances. It’ll be a tough call for Scott Walker (unless he ends up on the Presidential ticket), as he’d have to decide whether to run for a 3rd term that year or the Senate, or perhaps Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch might be a better bet.
OurCampaigns has 5 speculative candidates, Hovde being one along with 3 of the current House members (Reid Ribble, Sean Duffy and Paul Ryan). Ryan probably has more power in the House, though I’d like to see him ousted entirely. Duffy might be a curious choice to run, but only if his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, runs for his House seat (I’ve had a crush on her since she was on MTV’s Real World San Francisco as the lone sane person in a house full of cretins and nutters). Ribble I don’t know enough about to handicap.
The other name floated is Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, who is stepping down this year voluntarily, but I don’t have much of a strong feeling for him and it seems odd he’d drop out of office now to try to make a comeback in 4 years when others will overshadow him by then.