Election Eve
Well, it all comes down to tomorrow. Here's what I'm seeing and hearing.
In New Jersey, they sure seem to love their abortions. And Doug Forrester's smear tactics of using excerpts from interviews given by Sen. Jon Corzine's angry ex-wife seem to be working -- the latest independent poll has Corzine's lead down to five points, an all-time low.
The Forrester campaign, which always had an uphill battle to climb, has made some hay out of a three-pronged tack: linking Corzine to the corruption of the McGreevey administration -- for the politically-challenged, he's the governor who was also "a Gay American"; going after his personal history, divorce and relationships; and distancing itself from the national Republican party.
Over the weekend, the GOP campaign ran its second ad featuring Forrester's wife, Andrea, speaking directly to the camera in a subliminal riposte to Corzine, who has no wife to speak for him. Her first words were: "Jon Corzine is confusing my husband's positions. My husband is pro-choice."
As a result, Sean Hannity's already getting phone calls from conservatives who intend to stay home. And if enough do that, Corzine will win.
I haven't a clue what's going on in Virginia, extant the latest numbers which have the Jesuit-loving Democrat Tim Kaine up three over wholly-owned Evangelical-capitalist subsidiary Jerry Kilgore who, in case you didn't already know, loves the death penalty. The Republican nominee also resembles a Bobblehead doll when he speaks.
According to the pollster Scott Rasmussen, Kilgore's ads using the parents of murder victims to lambaste Kaine's faith-based stance on capital punishment -- including references to Hitler -- have backfired.
But the tone of the race is so bad that, by this point in a razor-close contest, Kaine's probably running ads with a white sheet superimposed on Kilgore, and Kilgore's probably photo-shopping Kaine into scenes from a Mumia Abu-Jamal rally. While turning off swing voters, such messages would have the unintended effect of resolidifying their opposition's bases.
Again, it's no way to choose a chief executive.
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In New Jersey, they sure seem to love their abortions. And Doug Forrester's smear tactics of using excerpts from interviews given by Sen. Jon Corzine's angry ex-wife seem to be working -- the latest independent poll has Corzine's lead down to five points, an all-time low.
The Forrester campaign, which always had an uphill battle to climb, has made some hay out of a three-pronged tack: linking Corzine to the corruption of the McGreevey administration -- for the politically-challenged, he's the governor who was also "a Gay American"; going after his personal history, divorce and relationships; and distancing itself from the national Republican party.
Over the weekend, the GOP campaign ran its second ad featuring Forrester's wife, Andrea, speaking directly to the camera in a subliminal riposte to Corzine, who has no wife to speak for him. Her first words were: "Jon Corzine is confusing my husband's positions. My husband is pro-choice."
As a result, Sean Hannity's already getting phone calls from conservatives who intend to stay home. And if enough do that, Corzine will win.
I haven't a clue what's going on in Virginia, extant the latest numbers which have the Jesuit-loving Democrat Tim Kaine up three over wholly-owned Evangelical-capitalist subsidiary Jerry Kilgore who, in case you didn't already know, loves the death penalty. The Republican nominee also resembles a Bobblehead doll when he speaks.
According to the pollster Scott Rasmussen, Kilgore's ads using the parents of murder victims to lambaste Kaine's faith-based stance on capital punishment -- including references to Hitler -- have backfired.
But the tone of the race is so bad that, by this point in a razor-close contest, Kaine's probably running ads with a white sheet superimposed on Kilgore, and Kilgore's probably photo-shopping Kaine into scenes from a Mumia Abu-Jamal rally. While turning off swing voters, such messages would have the unintended effect of resolidifying their opposition's bases.
Again, it's no way to choose a chief executive.
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 16:35
1 Comments:
Again, it's no way to choose a chief executive.
Well, it's certainly worked pretty well since Adams-Jefferson. :)
You could make a case that partisanship destroys social capital and all that, but essentially, the two sides cancel each other out and have been for 200 years, as Madison predicted.
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