Twelve days before the election…things look good, but the fight isn’t over yet. Nationally it looks like the Democrats will regain the U.S. but the Senate looks like a toss-up. Claire McCaskill vs. Jim Talent may be the race that decides control of the Senate. Claire is running an amazing campaign but she is fighting the full financial might of the G.O.P. Duane Burghard is on the verge of taking back the 9th Congressional District, but Hulshof is entrenched and fighting. Susan Montee should have an easy victory but Matt Blunt wants his own sock-puppet as Auditor and will be funding attack ads. Wes Shoemyer and Beau Hicks are running strong but will face a Republican blitz until election day.
The Democratic Party has the best candidate and the best message…the fight is now the ground troops. Ground troops? That’s us! Democrats, progressive independents, Republicans-with-second-thoughts are the people who will win this election. It’s up to us to talk to people, write letters to the editors, put up the last signs, phone-bank and make last minute financial contribution. Let’s get to work! And I think that we need to mentally cue up some background music. I’d suggest music from one of the Rockie movies: Eye of the Tiger….
- “Face to face…out in the heat….handing tough, stayin hungry..they stack the odds, still we take to the street for the “kill” with the skill to survive…It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight, risin up to the challenge of our rivals…and the last know survivor stalks his prey in the night and he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger….”
November 1, 2006 at 11:09 pm
You must be delusional. Hulshof’s victory has never been seriously questioned. McCaskill has been losing ground. Behnen actually started campaigning and Shoemeyer is losing ground. But that is probably more because people saw how phony Shoemeyer is, rather than anything Behnen has said or done. The auditor race is kind of a joke because picking good candidates was a low, low priority for both parties. Of course either auditor canidate will probably be an improvement over the one we have now.
If you are going to post this stuff for people to read, you should at least make honest observations. The whole tell-a-big-lie-so-often-it-becomes-true motif went out with Algore.