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8:18 AM Oct 8th: Year of the Independent? Think again. With Lincoln Chafee’s decline in RI, the last reasonable shot for an I victory for Governor disappears
8:20 AM Oct 8th: Independents, once highly touted, in CO, ME, MA, and MN will all lose. Then there’s Charlie Crist going down for Senate.
8:22 AM Oct 8th: Only Lisa Murkowski has a decent chance, and she’s running as a Republican write in who’ll stay in the R Senate caucus IF she wins.
8:24 AM Oct 8th: Anti-establishment does not mean anti-two party system. Plus ca change…2010 not so different after all.
10:11 AM Oct 8th: Jobless numbers ice a baked, cooled election cake.
6:08 PM Oct 10th: How do people like Ohio’s Iott–who no longer has an Iota of a chance to win–make it almost to the finish line? We can’t get best to run.
6:11 PM Oct 10th: I’ve been around a long time. No one’s going to convince me the candidate pool hasn’t deteriorated.
12:31 PM Oct 12th: POTUS, Dems focusing on campaign finance, foolishly. It’s a process issue–important but secondary. Sounds like whining.
12:33 PM Oct 12th: Voters will never believe both sides aren’t swimming in $$$ & equally corrupt. Plus, it’s a MEGO for most ppl–‘my-eyes-glaze-over’.
12:35 PM Oct 12th: Process issues are losers whenever big substantive issues (such as dinner-table economy concerns) loom large.
12:36 PM Oct 12th: Yes, politics is separate from reality. Every dollar raised & spent in politics should be fully disclosed. We once had consensus on that.
5:04 PM Oct 12th: Britain & America are separated by a common language. That description now applies to Democrats & Republicans.
5:05 PM Oct 12th: Have D & R world views ever intersected less? I’m not sure they could agree on the wording of a Mother’s Day resolution.
5:07 PM Oct 12th: Get ready for a reintroduction to Gridlock–a new, tougher variety that will make the Clinton-Gingrich days look like the Age of Aquarius.
8:14 AM Oct 13th: Gov. Arnold(R) endorses Gov. Crist(I) for Senate. Effect: Zero. Neither Arnold nor Crist, to twist a famous Terminator line, will be back.
11:58 AM Oct 13th: Debate season. Fireworks, yes. Game-changers, hardly ever.