Virgina Democratic Primary for the Senate

[moki_blog]

hm... been a while since I've been a blogging. Hm, so before personal stuff (am I putting this off?) politics!

Democratic primary tuesday! Looks like it'll be interesting. James Webb, one of the candidates for the democratic nomination for the Senate, apparently was on the Colbert Report, he seems to have not made an idiot out of himself. This

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[uberjason]

But I have strong doubts whether he will be able to be the man to lead the Democratic party to victory in November.

I don't know a thing about politics. It's just your last sentence reminded me of the tail end of a Washington Post column I read the other day - How to Reconnect With Voters and Realize Your Dreams of Victory, a column about "What's wrong with the Democrats". In the end, he writes:

They've won the popular vote in three of the past four presidential elections. Their one outright loser was Sen. John F. Kerry, who had the liberal voting record that moderates warn about and the inability to take a stand that liberals warn about. Voters -- even his supporters -- told pollsters they didn't like him. But they weren't turned off by his entire party; Democrats won Senate races in red states such as Colorado and Arkansas in 2004, and ran far ahead of Kerry in South Dakota and Kentucky

[moki_blog]

I'm going to be a bit biased in responding to that, as I was supporting Kerry far before the New Hampshire primaries due to policy issues. Now remember, Colorado (Ken Salazar) and Arkansas (Blanche Lincoln) were both Democratic candidates with very moderate positions, Salazar (D-CO) and Pryor (elected in 2002)(D-AR) have joined the Gang of 14 in the Senate. Pryor was the only Democrat to unseat an incumbent Republican Senator. With Kentucky, that's seriously a problem with the Senate race, many were questioning Republican incumbent Bunning's mental well-being after he refused to debate his Democratic challenger in the same room and claimed he looked like Saddam's son. With South Dakota, we're talking about the former Senate Minority Leader here, so there was no way that the Democrats were going to give up easily on that one. Lets look at the other seats then. The Democrats lost Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Lousiana and Georgia, even though the races were considered close. They were unable to gain Alaska or Oklahoma, even

[moki_blog]

About Pryor unseating an incumbent, that was with respect to the 2002 elections.

[lakshigiorgi]

1) Miller has everything wrong about him that would make you want to vote for him: take traditional democrat but subtract being antiwar from the getgo (the man is an idiot) and being a lobbyist (so wait, democrats are running on anticorruption and the guy they're sending against allen is....a standard-bearer of corruption)

2) Schumer and the party endorsed Webb; if Miller wins, he won't get any national funding. Miller would be lucky to get what Byrne got in the last election. I highly doubt he has all those factors behind him.

3) Warner was campaigning for Webb. I think that should make the choice much easier.

4) Webb stopped being a democrat in the 1970s because the democrats were a) weak on nat'l security and b) losers. This man has his ducks in a row; those are the problems with democrats.

So I fully support the man.