All around the country various elections are taking place. Any one in particular you are paying attention to? We have a few interesting ones here, the Doraville City Council comes to mind. I'm watching the Kentucky races, and a couple in New Jersey.
PS... That Jack Conway guy is HOT! Sure hope he gets elected!
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We've got a big Mayoral race in my small town down here.
Also, a few minutes away in Macon there's some stuff going on. I'm sure Amy or someone else from Macon can explain it more in detail but from what I understand there's a Libertarian candidate running a write-in campaign against a Democrat on the city council. Supposedly the Libertarian has a good shot and the incumbent Democrat, who has been in office since 1999 is not really campaigning. Macon's the only city in our state that has partisan council races.
Just from browsing some of the national blogs, it appears that we have a good shot at recapturing the VA Senate and we can make a few gains in the VA House.
I am paying attention to Pennsylvania to see what happens to Judge Deni.
http://renegadeevolution.blogspot.com/...-deafening.html
VIRGINIA
The Republicans hold a slim lead in the State Senate and House. Chances are very good that the Senate will flip back to the Democrats. The House is a bit of a longshot.
I'll be watching the returns from my old stomping grounds - Loudoun County - online tonight.
so we pick up KY gov and lose LA gov.
Kind of don't like losing LA because it shows a state party in its last throes (or what appear to be) and also its a deep south Democrat.
God Fletcher was corrupt as hell though. We were really lucky there cause so many top choices passed on the race. Hopefully one of them will go to a senate race...
Hottie Jack Conway won...
Also there is a GA Connection with the nasty anti-gay robo calls made on KY against Beshear.. and BlueGrass report blog has the details.. I'll spare you the suspense...
http://bluegrassreport.org/
The folks over at Talking Points Memo are trying to track down who was behind yesterday's illegal robo calls. Turns out an 800 number that has purportedly been associated with yesterday's calls has been traced back to a few other old political campaigns in Georgia, one as recently as last month, as well as going back as far as Georgia Gov. Sonny Purdue's (R) 2002 campaign.
Why this is interesting is that three of Governor Fletcher's (R) inner-most political advisers -- campaign manager Marty Ryall, first-rate political hack Brett Hall, and Fletcher media adviser Fred Davis -- all have deep roots in Georgia Republican politics:
Ryall managed the race of Karen Handel, Republican candidate for Georgia Secretary of State, in 2006 as well as the 1998 re-election campaign of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-GA);
Hall worked on Ralph Reed's (R) 2006 campaign for Georgia lieutenant governor and in Governor Sonny Perdue's (R-GA) 2002 gubernatorial campaign;
Fred Davis has done extensive work in Georgia, including both Coverdell's re-election and Perdue's campaign (which may explain the relationships between the three).
How about those coincidences.
Or are they?
UPDATE (5:23 PM): One TPM reader finds an old reference to Matt Towery, a former Georgia state rep. You may also remember him as Newt Gingrich's former chairman who commissioned those bogus early polls showing Fletcher with just a three point lead over Fletcher. He's also someone Hall refers to a good deal on his little blog of horrors. This gets curiouser and curiouser...