Monday, 12 May 2008

Nothing To See Here, Move Along Now

We have received the latest round of polling from Survey USA and the Lexington Herald on the state of Kentucky's Democratic primary for US Senate. And surprise surprise, the poll numbers are virtually unchanged from last week.

 USALH
Lunsford41%43%
Fischer23%23%

 

This race is virtually over. The political oxygen in the state is being sucked up by the Obama and Clinton presidential primary. Neither candidate will be able to gain much traction with the media between now and the primary. Which means Lunsford will win the primary easily. My prediction a week out is that Lunsford will under perform and end up just below 40% of the vote. I think Fischer will over perform, but come up well short with around 30% of the vote. David Williams will get 10% of the vote. The rest of the candidates will get between 2-3% of the vote.

Posted by brians at 10:41 PM in Kentucky Politics
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Politics Of Personal Destruction

Tonight during a rally for Obama, we were treated to Chandler calling Republican presidential candidate John McCain John Insane. This weekend Beshear said Cheney should shoot Bush. Last week, Patton said that Beshear should have shot Sen David Williams.

I don't know about you, but this sounds a lot like the "politics of personal destruction". These aren't comments that are disagreeing over policies. No, these are comments that are personal attacks. I assume that these quotes will be a front page story for days like it was for Republican Congressman Davis when he referred to Obama as a "boy". I assume the media will justly make calls for apologies from all three of them.

Oh wait, it is only Republicans who practice the politics of personal destruction. It is only Republicans whose comments make the front page. And it is only Republicans who apologize. If you are a Democrat you just get a pass from the media. The joys of double standards.

Posted by brians at 10:16 PM in Kentucky Politics
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Beshear Calls For Cheney To Shoot Bush

Beshear is unquestionably a paragon of bi-partisanship. He demonstrated it again this weekend at a Democratic event where he called upon Vice President Cheney to shoot President Bush.

Speaking before Clinton, Gov. Steve Beshear had some fighting words of his own. He tied the plight of the national Democrats to local ones, having reclaimed the office from a Republican incumbent last year. He said Democrats were "problem solvers."

"I can think of only one Republican that could be a problem solver," he added. "And that is Vice President Cheney, if he would just take George on a hunting trip."

Nice. Thanks Gov Beshear for showing us all how classy you can be.

Posted by brians at 10:05 AM in Kentucky Politics
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