Nov 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Warner Wins
No surprising, but Mark Warner will be Virginia’s next Senator. A lot of attention, rightly, has focused on the GOP’s objective headwinds in 2008. But the Virginia GOP knew that John Warner (a Republican) was retiring and that Mark Warner, a popular former governor, was going to run against him. They also knew that Tom Davis, a moderatish NOVA Republican congressman was their best chance of holding the seat. But instead of nominating him, they actually switched the nominating process to a caucus system rigged to favor his unelectable more rightwing opponent. Thus, they entered the election spotting the Democrats a Senate seat. And Davis, pissed off, resigned from the House thus handing his seat to the Democrats.
It was strange behavior.
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November 4th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
It was a change we can believe in.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
The funny part of the Rethuglicon convention was that the eventual nominee, James Gilmore, almost lost the nomination to a whackjob named William Marshall, a Michelle Bachmann wannabee.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
The Republican party has been doing this type of thing for a long time. Way back in 1978, Jeffry Bell defeated the the incumbent New Jersey Senator Clifford Case in the Republican primary. Bell lost the general election, and the Republican Party hasn’t nominated a serious Senate candidate in New Jersey since then.
I don’t think that the Republican party can afford to do that type of thing any more because the country is no longer moving towards the political right.
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