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Please excuse the 24-hour absence of bl0gging, and thanks to Smitty and Wombat for producing excellent content in my absence. Yesterday I drove from Hagerstown to Christiansburg, Va., and then on to Abingdon, where I filed 950 words last night The American Spectator:
ABINGDON, Va. — Rick Boucher voted for the “Job-Killing Cap & Trade Energy Tax,” says a voter guide distributed in Virginia’s 9th District and that may well be the obituary on the Democrat’s 28-year career in Congress.
Southwest Virginia is coal country and, according to an estimate by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Waxman-Markey bill for which Boucher voted — formally known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act — would eliminate 56,000 jobs in Virginia. The unemployment rate in many counties in Boucher’s district has been above 10 percent for months, and it is hard to see why anyone concerned about this region’s economy would vote for the man who voted for legislation so inimical to their own interests.
President Obama didn’t exactly help the Democrat incumbent’s re-election chances last year when he declared, “I love Rick Boucher,” a statement that has now been replayed thousands of times in Republican campaign ads in a district that John McCain carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2008.
Improbable as it may seem, however, VA-9 is still a rated a “toss-up.” For months, polls showed Boucher with a double-digit lead over Republican challenger Morgan Griffith. It was not until this week, in the wake of a televised debate on a Lynchburg station, that a poll by Survey USA showed Griffith pulling ahead by a single point, 47 to 46 percent.
That Boucher could get 46 percent of the vote here — indeed, the incumbent may actually win re-election Tuesday — demonstrates the power of Democrat party attack ads, which have been pouring into airwaves and mailboxes in the 9th District, as in so many other key congressional districts nationwide. . . .
Please read the whole thing. I didn’t get to bed until 3 a.m., then had to be up at 7:30 a.m. to go cover the Morgan Griffith campaign. Walked with the candidate shaking hands along the streets of Gate City and then traveled to Jonesville — way off in the southwest corner of Virginia — for a get-out-the-vote rally for Griffith.
Will have photos, etc., from last night and today in a little while, but I just wanted to get something online to let readers know I’m alive and well and disgusted by Gawker.
Seriously: That Philly punk complained that “the waxing trend had completely passed her by,” which he says caused him to lose interest. Is this porn-inspired trend toward the deforestation of the pubic delta now so ubiquitous that young guys no longer find normal women attractive? Well, never mind Dustin Dominiak — although a Kentucky-style stomping would probably do him good, and I sincerely hope the backlash will result in Chris Coons getting stomped Tuesday. (New Christine O’Donnell slogan: “Vote for bush!”)
My plan is still to head south all the way to Florida for Election Day, so if you feel an overpowering urge to hit the tip jar, don’t fight the feeling.
Conservatives4Palin has the play-by-play.
They also point to the Alaska elections site, which, filtering the chaff, lists 125 valid competitors for The Seat Her Daddy Gave Her To Keep, if I filtered the noise correctly.
Still more background at the Anchorage Daily News.
Perhaps Lisa, Arlen Specter, and Charlie Crist can come together and found the “It’s Our Party And We’ll Cry If We Want To Party”. In any case, let us hope that Alaskans do something sensible on Tuesday.
It is excellent to see Murray both on Fox and Friends. . .:
and also Fox Business. If you have time, go for this second clip, where the discussion moves past Moran’s condescending dismissal of military service members to discussion of needed policy reforms, for example, term limits. How refreshing it would be to have a representative not committed to Murtha-ism:
What would really be nice to see is Murray on Hardball with Matthews, trying to make up for the detached-from-reality performance of the incumbent, “Gentleman” Jim Moran. In that case, the thrill up Matthew’s leg would be the vibration of a 120mm main battery. Moran supporters have responded with an attack ad so brutal and devastating that, should Ladd Ehlinger view it, he’ll no doubt give up directing film entirely:
The clip looks like a school project, and certainly is better than anything I have done, so let’s fall short of hammering kids. A bit more research in the future wouldn’t hurt, however. NCLB was a Bush idea. These youth probably don’t understand that they’re blaspheming Holy Progress by supporting BeelzeBush the Anti-Clinton.
Like you don't know who these are. Keep reading.
RNC’s Heye: “I was sad that the President of the United States would go on some comedy talk show to try to yuck it up.”
Juan Uribe bashes a three-run homer in the 5th inning
Sanchez: “You never think you’re going to have success against a pitcher like that…This is a crazy game.”
Virginia’s 11 districts are arguably most interesting around the Potomac. If power corrupts, absolute power has a magnetic effect on corrupted personalities.
Four of Virginia’s districts are on the Real Clear Politics radar. This post reviews the Democrat attack ads on offer, and also throws in my local district, because we could all use a fifth around now. Navigation:VA-2, VA-5, VA-9, VA-11, VA-8
After VA-9? Well, I don’t know how far I’ll go. Depends on time and money. Please hit the tip jar, and thanks to everyone who’s already helped out with the Shoe Leather Fund.
Of course, these kind of get-out-the-vote ads are intended to persuade clueless liberal college kids to vote, assuming that at least two-thirds of them will vote for Democrats. But it’s Alyssa Milano, and there’s no such thing as bad Alyssa Milano:
