The Battle for America: Around the Nation, Sept 8, 2010
PJ Media is covering the historic November elections on the ground in battleground states all over America. We have correspondents in more than a dozen states and are looking for more. The following is our first weekly round-up from our coast-to-coast Battle for America 2010 correspondents.
ILLINOIS
Bill Baar reports:
The Chicago Tribune’s latest poll showed Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias stalemated. Each took 34% of those polled. Both campaigns seem stuck despite charges of resume puffing, mob bankers, and starting today: Kirk lied on WMDs in Iraq.
Over a fifth of Illinois voters seem to be singing “mom didn’t raise me to vote for Mark Kirk” or Alexi Giannoulias — depending on Mom’s politics — and refusing to side with any candidate, while sideshow candidates threaten to drain votes away from the main battle. The Green’s LeAlan Jones took 6% and Libertarian Mike Labno another 3% in the Trib poll, and Randy Stufflebeam of the Constitution Party fights on in the courts for ballot space.
Stu Rothenberg wrote a “clunker” economy surfs Kirk to the Senate for the GOP. Yesterday’s announcement from Mayor Daley that he’ll not run for re-election in 2011 raises fears donors will hold back on giving to Giannoulias and instead save their money for the big mayoral race in 2011, further draining the money pool to fuel any wave for Giannoulias. That’s the only race that really counts for Chicago Democrats.
MARYLAND
Michael Swartz reports:
With primary voting already underway, signs are pointing toward the long-awaited “grudge match” for governor between incumbent Democrat Martin O’Malley and Republican Bob Ehrlich, whom O’Malley ousted in 2006.
Ehrlich finally joined the air war this week, debuting his first campaign television ad after nearly two months of O’Malley being unchallenged on Maryland’s televisions. And in more good news for the former governor, Ehrlich’s fundraising swamped O’Malley’s during the most recent reporting period by a nearly 3:1 margin.
The mere formality for Ehrlich is getting by insurgent conservative candidate Brian Murphy once the primary voting closes next week; however, respected state political commentator Blair Lee thinks Murphy could get a third of the GOP vote. This begs the question of whether conservative grassroots support for Ehrlich will sag again as it did in his 2006 re-election effort. Since Ehrlich still has a significant disadvantage in cash on hand against O’Malley, the grassroots will be more important to his cause.
CALIFORNIA
Tim Daniel reports:
September 1, 2010, was the one and only debate night.
Debate highlights: Carly Fiorina was attacked for her $100,000,000 golden parachute. Boxer was long on talk and short on achievement. She defended yes ma’am and was boxed-in during the combative debate.
However, in this bluest of blue states, the Fiorina v. Boxer match is still essentially a statistical tie.
Forget CT. People up here in this bluest of blue states are dumber than a box of rocks. That jobs have left and are continuing to leave the state does not produce concern over the business practices of the state government. That taxes are spiriling out of control is unquestioned by the lefties. That the state is over $3 billion in debt is no big deal to the left. That Blumenthal is a liar, and used his office to threaten bankers with a crime for accepting money for their work with NO legal foundation does not bother the lefty voter up here.
I’m liking Jan Brewer. Her debate performance was nothing short of miraculous. Stunning in its intellectual and emotional heft. And the headless bodies she found in the desert should, I think, propel her to the national stage. Forget Palin. I say nominate Jan Brewer and her running mate, Icabod Crane.
What’s really weird is that she’s still better than the Democrat.
I live in southern AZ. At LEAST 13 dead bodies, most shot execution-style but a couple were headless I’m told by local LEOs, have been found within 30 miles of my home, which is 40 miles west of Phoenix. Jan Brewer is not lying about the bodies, headless and otherwise. Just because you haven’t heard about it on the TV news doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Thought you would have learned that by now.
I’ve had all I can take of the “articulate” politicians. I’ll take one who may not be a great public speaker, but does an outstanding job of GOVERNING, which Brewer has proven to excel at. Pick your candidates based on their speech delivery skills, appearance and ability to lie well, get OBAMA. Get it?
As I age, I am more & more astounded by the vile & despicable rhetoric spewed by any & all candidates. Yet once many of our media ‘giants’ weigh in, it gets even more despicable. The ability to take an issue or event & turn it around so completely that it can be made to appear as something totally different than the actual history, is incredible.
One thing is certain. The media has decided to weigh in, in favor of anyone who happens to be a lefty. The media has also decided Americans are idiot’s, fool’s,
stupid, ignorant, uneducated, & any other vile name they can call us.
Now, when those same Americans (the exact same people), voted Barack Obama in, they were wise, they were tolerant, they were post racist, they were wonderful. Ain’t it amazing how the media can dump anyone who is not willing to march lockstep to the liberal tune?
News Melange: ICE, Fidel, Rodney King
From the Good News/Bad News Department: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, affectionately known as ICE, announced that as of September 5, 2010 it had apprehended 506,232 illegal aliens over the course of about 10 months. That’s about 50,623 bad guys and gals per month nabbed by the agency, which is pretty outstanding enforcement.
That’s the good news.
The bad news about ICE, which could also be termed the TBA, for Teats on a Bull Agency, is that they also announced they had released 506,232 illegal aliens who are now no longer considered illegal aliens but rather fugitive aliens.
ICE/TBA takes a curious approach to law enforcement and fulfilling its mission; its approach is founded on placing trust in its apprehendees.
In effect, our federal agents say to the criminal, illegal aliens, “Now, you be good, okay? Just show up on the appointed day so we can have a hearing and deport you. Got that?” The illegals gladly say, “Si, senor!” and are never seen or heard from again,. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1889)
Bill/AZCIII:
In the last four months Jan Brewer has been caught lying, three times and counting.
The comments made on June 16, 2010, and June 27, 2010, clearly indicates that the Brewer says that immigrants are beheading people in the United States desert. She first ran away from the question and the press when confronted with the question. She finally when to FOX/ FAKE News to recant her lie.
When Brewer was confronted with the fact the two of her top Advisors (Paul Senseman, Chuck Coughlin) are lobbyist for “Private Prisons” giant CCA she first ran away from the question and the press.
In an attempt to gain sympathy, she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (which ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that her father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. Do you see a trend here?
Brewer signed into law SB 1070 Bill (Did she even read it?), lied about the crime rates in AZ (even Janet Napolitano knows that all crimes rates went down), and now we find out that she is in the pockets of PRIVATE PRISONS who stand to benefit with the increase Federal jailing, and thus they will pay her back, I wonder if it has to do anything about the fact that her son was transferred to a brand new prison, he was convicted for rape and sexual assault, I guess the fruit does not fall far the tree.
“Private Prisons Lie”
youtube.com/watch?v=UMcgXxzcBeY
“AZ Crime Rates”
youtube.com/watch?v=0eb4mMk6XgQ
“Father Lie”
vodpod.com/watch/3771595-charles-krauthammer-rips-jan-brewer-for-lying-about-her-father-dying-in-ww2