1. Jack! Glenn suggests in comments that he was bribed to not put him at number one by Jeri. As if. But I’m really running out of material here. Jack! is really about the funniest nickname I can come up with–in fact it is damn hilarious the more I think about it.
2. Rauschenberger. I don’t need no steenking polls. Steve is smart the rest are dumb and need to be eliminated from the island. Really, I do expect that if anyone gets late breakers it’ll be him or Jack!
3. Oberweis. He brought in Tancredo (Loony Bin Party Label-Colorado). Thank you, I didn’t think he could be any more ridiculous. Tancredo is the primary anti-immigrant guy in Congress and general comic relief. They fit well together. With any luck Tancredo will run in Colorado and lead to the biggest turnout of Latinos for Democrats ever. Udall is in, that would be a nice pick-up. Really, the Colorado race is more fun than this one anymore.
4. McKenna. The Wonder Bread of WASPs.
5. Borling. By the end of this, him and Rauschenberger will be number one and two simply because I can’t stand it anymore. If you are going to lose, slap the whippersnapper around a bit more on foreign policy.
6. Jonathan Wright. Makes Pat O’Malley look reasonable and sorta like a compromiser. Big star of the future. Look for him to challenge for one of the statewide races in 2006. My guess is he might take social conservative hatred of all things moderate and make that a campaign in the primary against Dan Rutherford.
7. Kathuria. NEW POLL SHOWS U.S. REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE, DR. CHIRINJEEV KATHURIA, STATISTICALLY TIED FOR SECOND PLACE
I can’t make that stuff up.
All Right!
I’m only 14.75 percentage points from a statistical tie for second place!
Don’t be too quick to dismiss Oberweis. Americans have been anti-immigration for more than 125 years. (Blame the Irish!) I know that upsets a lot of editorial writers and other goo-goo types, but it’s a fact. Those feelings tend to really get stirred-up when the economy is bad. The latest Channel 2 poll
shows Oberweis is closing and it’s because of immigration. Yeah, he’s blowing the numbers out of proportion and he’s playing on racial and ethnic fears — but this issue has traction. And there is no backlash risk in a Republican primary. Furthermore, the backlash risk is the general election isn’t as severe as some think because HISPANICS DON’T VOTE.