Did you watch the ad Vitter released? What you say may be true but the ad explicitly states otherwise and most of the public is pretty seriously paranoid about refugees at the moment. Linking Edwards to the idea of refugee settlement may prove to be an effective tactic, regardless of whether it is true.
That’s a funny one. I have few illusions about the average voter in Illinois but at least once Blago was caught the general consensus was to toss the bum out of office and send him to prison. If after he is released in 2025 he is elected again to a statewide office then the comparison would be more appropriate. As bad as our politicians may be I’m not aware of any being reelected to a major office after being caught up in a scandal involving prostitutes and wearing diapers.
As for Kirk and Rauner, it is reasonable to believe they will both be denied reelection.
Well, for one thing, he appears to have spent his second term as governor (if not both terms) focused on positioning himself for a presidential run instead of actually governing his state. (In fact, he has a long history of half-ignoring his present job while building his resume for the next one.)
The post you accompanied pretty much summarized the ad (which I’ve seen now) and its just another political ad, not anymore devestating and probably less so then the Edwards ads I posted. Until I see polls and/or election results to the contrary, I see no reason why this ad should doom Edwards considering he has done a good job of differentiating himself from Obama and a better representative of certain conservative values then Vitter.
My broader point is that calling voters stupid isn’t particularly helpful. As I like saying, most people know their interests most of the time and vote accordingly.
The ad Vitter is running is total BS yet his campaign clearly thinks this is a tactic that will help them make it an actual contest. If it works it would hardly be the first time a politician got away with such a brazen lie.
The problem with this is that at the moment it appears a lot of people in this country think keeping Syrian refugees out of the country is in their best interest. Hopefully the voters of Louisiana know better.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! I was cautiously hopeful this would happen but more than a bit worried slimeball Vitter would manage to pull out a win at the last minute.
to the liberals who doubt the importance of being seen as tough on security, take not of Edwards being against more Syrian refugees, against the national Dem party and Obama.
In a state as Republican as Louisiana, I take it for granted that a Dem can’t win by being a Liz Warren clone. Small price to pay for getting 225,000 more people covered by Medicaid.
ETA: But in places more favorable to Dems, I expect them to follow Obama’s example and explain the difference to people between actually being tough on national security, and posturing on it.
Jindal’s going to be continuing his career in unelected office I’d expect. He’ll be angling for VP(not totally out of the realm of possibility) or a Cabinet post.