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Wandering Ocelot
Nov. 8th, 2006 03:45 amRick Santorum got the boot. I laugh and point.
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Ken Blackwell lost by only 59/38. That's much better than I expected him to do. I have to think it's because in the last couple weeks Strickland strayed from his core message of "I'm not Ken Blackwell!" to talk about issues. At least now I can enjoy looking at the Statehouse, knowing Dufus isn't in there plotting new ways to embarass us all.
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Sherrod Brown beat Mike DeWine. Honestly though, that was like having to choose between Bush and Gore. I wasn't going to be too happy with that however it turned out. Neither man is really to my taste.
I'll confess a certain affection for DeWine. Whenever I wrote him, I always got an honest answer back. He'd tell you when he thought you were wrong, and why, instead of doing the usual politician thing, and trying to phrase it in such a way as to please everyone.
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There's an element of Greek tragedy to the Republican downfall. They came to power 12 years ago, because voters were disgusted with corruption and cronyism. Now they've become exactly the thing against which they fought, and suffered the same fate. It will be interesting now to see if the Democrats actually intend to govern, or if they're going to waste their advantage by playing to their base and attacking Republicans.
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Corker won in Tennessee. He was the one who got his campaign worker run over by a guy in a Chicken suit.
"Mr. Shannon said there were three men in bright yellow chicken suits at a Senate debate in Knoxville on Thursday night. He said he does not know if the chicken who ran over him is one of those three."
Ha! Ha! Ha! -->
*****
Ken Blackwell lost by only 59/38. That's much better than I expected him to do. I have to think it's because in the last couple weeks Strickland strayed from his core message of "I'm not Ken Blackwell!" to talk about issues. At least now I can enjoy looking at the Statehouse, knowing Dufus isn't in there plotting new ways to embarass us all.
*****
Sherrod Brown beat Mike DeWine. Honestly though, that was like having to choose between Bush and Gore. I wasn't going to be too happy with that however it turned out. Neither man is really to my taste.
I'll confess a certain affection for DeWine. Whenever I wrote him, I always got an honest answer back. He'd tell you when he thought you were wrong, and why, instead of doing the usual politician thing, and trying to phrase it in such a way as to please everyone.
*****
There's an element of Greek tragedy to the Republican downfall. They came to power 12 years ago, because voters were disgusted with corruption and cronyism. Now they've become exactly the thing against which they fought, and suffered the same fate. It will be interesting now to see if the Democrats actually intend to govern, or if they're going to waste their advantage by playing to their base and attacking Republicans.
*****
Corker won in Tennessee. He was the one who got his campaign worker run over by a guy in a Chicken suit.
"Mr. Shannon said there were three men in bright yellow chicken suits at a Senate debate in Knoxville on Thursday night. He said he does not know if the chicken who ran over him is one of those three."
