First of all, I don’t feel too panicked, yet, over Obama’s re-election chances. Fivethirtyeight.com and the Las Vegas bookmakers still have him as the favorite, and I can’t quite see Bishop Romney turning things around in Ohio, or any other Rust Belt state.
Tammy Duckworth on the Campaign Trail
But this election isn’t just about the presidency, and there were several news stories I read today which gave me hope that we’ll get much more out of this election than just Obama’s re-election.
Jim Graves is catching up with crazy eyes Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s wingnuttiest district, Chris Murphy is now leading TV wrestling honcho and megamillionairess Linda McMahon in Connecticut, and Patrick Murphy is close to unseating war criminal and deranged lunatic Allen West in Florida.
In crimson red Indiana, Dick Mourdock, (who I’m sure was teased a lot as a child), looks set to hand Richard Lugar’s old seat over to the Democrats. He said Tuesday that rape was just another one of God’s ways of getting ladies pregnant. The fun part of this is that Romney had just made an ad for him. It’s an embarrassment, but he’s decided to gut it out and not pull the ad. I doubt if this is enough to turn Indiana blue, but it’s something that women nationwide will notice.
Todd Akin in Missouri, who has a similar insensitivity to women coupled with a total lack of medical knowledge, is getting his ass handed to him by Claire McCaskill in Missouri. I suspect that saying she was like a dog didn’t help him much.
In other news around the country, Tommy Thompson is digging his own grave – first with his idiot son making idiot birther comments and then issuing the lamest apology ever, and now by putting out an ad saying Tammy Baldwin didn’t support the 9/11 first responders, which opened up the issue and a very brief examination shows that she did a lot more for them than he ever did. (Basically, Thompson made a fortune off of denying them health care).
One state to the south, in a congressional race, war hero Tammy Duckworth has a good shot at unseating loudmouth, deadbeat dad, and all around objectionable person Joe Walsh, who said recently that there was no need for an abortion exception to save the life of the mother because “that never happens.”
Also, Elizabeth Warren is leading in the polls and rising over Scott Brown.
If we sweep all of these elections, and there is a very good chance that we will, it will mean a couple of things.
There will be a lot more women in Congress, good women: Baldwin, McCaskill, Duckworth and Warren. Of course, Michele Bachmann and Linda McMahon are women, too, but only on the technicality of their actual, physical gender.
Secondly, it will be a crushing defeat for the Tea Party. Hopefully, a final defeat.
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