September 06, 2006

Blogometer PM Extra

FL 13: You Won't Have Katharine To Kick Around Anymore

Buchanan's ability to self fund his campaign and his endorsement by US Senator Mel Martinez helped him win four out of the district's five counties. With almost all precincts in, Buchanan won 17,489 - 33% of the vote to State Representative Nancy Detert's 13,180 - 25%. Another Sarasota businessman and former county GOP chairman Tramm Hudson was third with 12,629 - 24%.

MD 04: 95% of MoveOners Can't Be Wrong

TPM Cafe's Art Brodsky reports that attorney Donna Edwards secured the endorsement of MoveOn.org after securing 95% of the vote from MoveOn's MD 04 members.

DailyKos' founder Markos Moulitsas invites readers to get to know Edwards opponent, Rep. Al Wynn (D) by looking at his contributors: " You've got Wal-Mart and the National Restaurant Association -- the two strongest critics of an increase in the federal minimum wage. You've got telecom interests protecting their investment in one of the strongest opponents of net neutrality in the House."

MN 05: Who Doesn't Read Power Line

John Hinderaker at Power Line looks the at Minneapolis Star Tribune endorsement of Mike Erlandson over the DFL's endorsed candidate Keith Ellison and notices some missing info:

No reference to Ellison's membership in the Nation of Islam, his use of aliases like Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison-Muhammad; no reference to his anti-Semitic comments; no reference to his association with, and endorsement of, leaders of gangs who murdered policemen; no reference to his consistent support for criminals like Assata Shakur and Kathleen Soliah. ... And yet...one gets the impression that the Strib's editorial board is somehow aware of these things... that it wasn't only Ellison's financial incompetence and scofflaw personality that caused the paper to turn against its party's endorsed candidate. It was almost as though the Strib's editorialists knew about these issues without ever having read about them in their own paper... almost as though the Strib's editorialists have been reading Power Line.

NC 13: Didn't Jesse Helms Win That Race

Crooks and Liars has video of 04 NC 05 candidate Vernon Robinson (R) latest ad including this quote:

"You needed that job," an announcer says. "And you were the best qualified. But they gave it to an illegal alien — so they could pay him under the table. … These illegals pay no taxes, but take our jobs and our government handouts. Then spit in our face. And burn our flag. Well, Vernon Robinson has had enough!"

Charles P. Pierce at TAPPED comments: "Please read the text as quoted carefully. It is almost word-for-word the text of the famous "black hands" ad that Jesse Helms threw up at the last minute against Harvey Gantt in their bloody 1990 senatorial campaign. Apparently, there's a template for bigots in which you just fill in the name of the Other du jour. A hundred years ago, they'd have been talking about my grandmother."

PA 08: Dems Love Catholic Bush Bashers

Chris Bowers at MyDD looks at Iraq War Ve. Patrick Murphy's new ad and likes what he sees: "I really like this ad. PA-08 is heavily Catholic, and starting with an image of President Kennedy works well. It moves to Murphy talking directly into the camera, a quick bio, and then directly challenges Bush on Iraq. The ad also does something we rarely see from Democrats these days--it actually says that Patrick Murphy is a Democrat."

TX 22: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Richard Morrison at MyDD announces: "We have produced an ad on behalf of the Fort Bend County Democrats here in the great state of Texas - and we're using the "D word" - Democrat. For those of you who don't know, Fort Bend County is the home (or former home) of Tom Delay. ... I've thought about this ad for a while and also thought about how important it is to attack the republicans for what they have done and to tell the voters to vote democrat. I will admit that when I ran against Tom DeLay, I didn't do as good of a job on this as I should have.

FL GOV: Harris Voters Love Gallagher

Right Angle Blog breaks down CFO Tom Gallagher's (R) loss to AG Charlie Crist (R)

Gallagher was behind in all but two of the 15 counties which reported to the FL Elections Division. He was ahead slightly in only two conservative rural counties near the state prison at Raiford (Bradford and Union). In fact, the born again conservative, once moderate Gallagher seemed to be running best in those counties where Katherine Harris was winning the most votes in smaller, more conservative N and Central Florida counties like Marion (Ocala). ... This may indicate that Gallagher's attacks against Crist for supporting gay civil unions and being too moderate on key social conservative issues like abortion may have won him some support but definitely not enough in key suburban and urban counties where most Republicans live.

Posted by Conn Carroll at September 6, 2006 03:35 PM