Today is primary day in several states, the closest thing we have to Super Tuesday on the 2014 campaign. By the time this is posted, most of the numbers will be in, but this should still be a good guide to what happened. Perhaps the day should be renamed Stupor Tuesday to reflect the awareness of Republican voters and all people too stupid to get off their butts and vote.
Get excited, because voters are casting ballots in six states holding high-stakes primaries. It’s the busiest primary day of the year so far — and the most consequential.
From tea party vs. establishment infighting in the West to a Democratic sprint to the left in the Northeast, there’s a lot going on. But fear not! Here’s where we come in. Below we give you the six [sic] most important things to watch:
1. Who will make the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate in Georgia?
2. What will Mitch McConnell’s margin of victory be?
3. Will Democrat Tom Wolf advance to a showdown against the nation’s most vulnerable governor?
4. It’s business versus tea party in Idaho. Business is poised for victory.
5. Will Monica Wehby hold on in Oregon after a story about "stalking" her ex-boyfriend last year?
6. Will a Clinton-backed U.S. House candidate advance in Pennsylvania?
7. There are two GOP primaries for U.S. House in Arkansas worth following.
8. Which Republican will take on the last white Democrat from the Deep South in the House?… [emphasis original]
Inserted from <Washington Post>
I’ve shared all the headers to give you a taste of what it covers. Click through for the meat of the article. To me. the most interesting item is the one on Monica Wehbe.
Rachel Maddow covered the day in two videos. I’m sorry that I can’t get the clips in an Internationally viewable format, but I’m including their titles so you can search later. In the first she covers Oregon Republicans.
Political weirdness finds a home in Oregon
In the second, she covers the other primaries.
The upside here is that we lose a couple real jerks from GA in the House.
Next we get to sort it all out.
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McTurtle won. Go figure.
Very politically weird there in Oregon. I think Mr. Parks needs help.
A stalker, Monica Wehby, won the primary there too. What's in the water in Oregon?
What's in the water, you ask?
Surely you remember last month when Portland emptied 38 MILLION gallons of water from their reservoir because a teen peed in it.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/portland_will_flush_38_million.html
So THAT'S what's in the water …
4. Mitch McConnell is a Scum Bucket…
Oregon is vote-by-mail. Most votes were alreadxcy in.
KENTUCKY: While Mitch McConnell easily won the primary vote as the gop candidate. Have a look at the polling vote numbers: Total votes cast for gop/tp candidates = 356,465 and the totals cast for the dems was at 404,950. Mitch's popularity is down, in Kentucky, at a low 34% favorable. Store-bought misogynist Mitch McConnell is facing a woman in the fall, Alison Lundergan Grimes and she is her own person. lol.
OREGON: The recent revelations about Monica C. Wehby being a "stalker" came out late in the voting primaries will, undoubtably, play a factor in the upcoming fall election for the senate seat between her and Jeff Merkley (D). Congress has all kinds of people with interesting background histories but a known stalker may be a first. lol.
GEORGIA: Karen Handel will not be in the running for a senate seat. Karen is out. You may remember her from the fiasco she caused in the Susan G. Komen organization two years ago. The Komen organization has not recovered from Karen's policies which she initiated against Planned Parenthood.
TEXAS: Governor Race: Wendy Davis faces an uphill battle against Greg Abbott. !00% of the votes cast in the primary favors Abbott by a wide margin per total votes casted: 100% in for gop/tp = 1,333,100 vs dems = 546,523. Let's not forget the voter suppression policies in Texas will undoubtably play a heavy factor in this race.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/calendar
Wehby won by a comfortable margin, so I doubt it would make any difference. But this late-breaking story about her stalking and other problems is a legitimate concert WRT mail-in voting.
Don't get me wrong – I'm for mail-in voting. But it does have some drawbacks – and not being able to factor in late news is one of them.
(Plus you don't get those cute little "I Voted – Did You?" stickers)
You can bet beer from Republicans hanging out at the drop-boxes if they approve how you
I always vote in person and I never got one of those cute little stickers. I feel left out.
Mr Parks sounds so mind boggling that I can't believe that even Repuglicans like him – he makes employees sign contracts that say that they will have sex with him – words fail me – AAARRRGGGHHHHH!
As for Wehby and Miller – oh Christmas – they don't even appear to be pretending to keep to the law that a candidate should have no contact with the PAC supporting them. Then it gets worse – that video is painful – and as for the man who wants to dilute nuclear waste and spray it all over America – WHAT???!!! Then it gets so bad I can't describe it – what the heck is in the water these nuts drink?
Thanks for the recent updates Jim – fascinating to see how things turn out.
As Jim says, the news about Wehby being a stalker came in late. But the result seems to be that the primary gave us what we want without having to work for it. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/18/1298418/-How-to-pick-your-opponent-A-guide-to-gaming-Republican-primaries Nameless, of course you are right, and I have always hung on to mail ballots as long as I could and still get them counted for that reason. However, sometimes a game-changer breaks AFTER the election too.
Completely off the wall, maybe if your name is Monica, politics might not be the best field for you.
LMAO!
I would vote for Tom Wolf if I lived in Pennsylvania.
Sadly, McConnell won in Ky. He has been hammering the tv stations with ads about the "war on coal" for three months. Happily, Grimes also won. She is currently 1% point ahead of him in the polls and she has done very little tv advertising. We have hope, both that Mitch will be defeated in November, and that Ky will FINALLY have a female senator.
Go Go AliCat!!
Well, it`s going to be interesting, that`s for sure.
In Oregon, I wouldn`t let Wehby operate on my child, let alone represent me (if I lived there) in Washington. But that goes for any one of the Republicanus/Teabaggers. I hope McTurtle gets kicked by Grimes so hard that he turns inside out.
Unfortunately I could not watch the videos either on the site or at MSNBC. Such a shame.
Try searching the titles. They may be YouTubed by now.
BTW, stupor has it!
Thanks all!