O’Malley ties with largely unknown State Senator Bill Brady in a 10th District GOP Women’s forum. LaHood wins.
It should be telling to the GOPsters out there that moderate GOP women aren’t enthralled with fire breathing True Believers (TM) like O’Malley. The good news is they didn’t run out of the auditorium I guess.
Even though Topinka wasn’t there, that should be her audience.
LaHood emerged fairly well and I think his low key approach might surprise a lot. Strong activists may dislike him, but even in the primary that isn’t the winning coalition. The danger for the right wing is that they are so divided that either Topinka or LaHood (who is pretty conservative, but seen as moderate) emerge from bitter infighting on the right flank. LaHood probably does the best in such a scenario with the conservative votes and moderate demeanor, he’s probably the strongest general election candidate along with Rauschenberger–who isn’t even certain to make the race.
The Leader loons are already talking up Pat the Patsy, so he won’t be going away just yet. As oily as Blago is, he’d crush O’Malley.