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Jun 15, 2010 16:44

After spending weeks staring at campaign websites, I'm really beginning to loathe many of the candidates. Not just for their positions, which range from innocuous to silly to offensive. Not just for their badly designed websites full of broken links. Not even because they're making huge amounts of work for me by having those websites. It's because ( Read more... )

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Two Names freudinshade June 16 2010, 00:44:08 UTC
I have two names for you, one you are familliar with, the other you may have heard of:

1) Dan Rego - Didn't cost him much to run and it was an educational experience for him. (If you're going to include third party candidates running to make a point, you know one more)

2) Alvin Greene - Who knows how the heck he actually managed to get on the ballot, but he won. Admittedly, if the state party can't get him off the ballot he'll get crushed in November, but it looks like he won the primary fairly (if, possibly, due to the positioning of his name on the ballot...)

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Re: Two Names swmartin June 16 2010, 01:19:23 UTC
I would actually say Dan had a legit reason to run, and it's much the same reason as the third party candidates -- "holding the flag" for your party. I understand the need for a PARTY to run candidates who have no chance of winning. Dan wasn't running to get HIS name on the ballot, he was running to keep the Republican Party's name on the ballot.

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Re: Two Names ian_tiberius June 16 2010, 06:10:47 UTC
And if you're representing a major party, there's always the chance that lightning could strike. Dan may have had no chance in hell under normal circumstances, but if Sheila Kuehl (I think that's who he ran against) had died or been arrested for a felony or something in the last week of the election, Dan might have been a congressman.

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Re: Two Names swmartin June 16 2010, 01:40:35 UTC
I thought that last name was oddly familiar! I counter your Alvin Greene with California's own Vibert Greene.

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swmartin June 23 2010, 22:50:14 UTC
Finally catching up with LJ and ran into my last post, realized I left an important clause out: Trying to win the Democratic primary for governor of California AS A COMPLETE UNKNOWN against Jerry Brown is not one of them. I'll accept longshot candidates. It's the no-shot candidates that annoy me.

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