In TN-4, what appeared to be a tight race between incumbent Democrat Lincoln Davis and Republican challenger Scott DeJarlais ended up being a blowout for DeJarlais.
Davis is one of those creepy Tennessee old-boy Democrat pols who tend to view the district as a personal plantation, assuming their constituents are just too stupid to figure out they're being systematically screwed. The ads the Democrats ran on his behalf, viciously attacking DeJarlais by dredging up allegations from his ex-wife from years ago. This, well, went over badly. Very badly. Very, very badly.
Finally damn time this nonsense backfire on someone.
Likewise, Rand Paul, trashed by Conway in the Kentucky Senate race, won going away. Not even close. And Conway gets to go back to his job tomorrow as Attorney General of Kentucky with his own ethics and credibility profoundly damaged by his own behavior.
Nikki Haley was trashed by allegations of an affair during her run for the governor's mansion in South Carolina, and survived the experience to win.
The voters were not in the mood for this BS, but the HopeyChangies just didn't seem to get the memo.
People willing to do anything, lie/cheat/steal, to win are utterly unqualified to hold office.
Send the memo around again, somebody.
And, locally, it appears that Doug Jackson, one of the worst and dumbest state senators in the history of Tennessee, is losing to his GOP opponent. Which warms OldSouth's heart. He asked on a number of occasions over the past twenty years why no one was willing to run against the man. Most expressed literal fear for their own health. OS always kept his head low, lest he find himself run into one of the many deep ditches of this county late at night. No kidding.
For his part, Jim Cooper, a BlueDog Democrat, held on to TN-5, the Nashville seat, but faced some energetic opposition. His victory speech was very muted, in which he expressed his sensitivity to the legitimate concerns of those who voted for his opposition. In other words, Himself can't assume Cooper will be voting for the next hunka-hunka-steaming-pork sent to Congress.
Steve Cohen won TN-9 easily, the Memphis seat. Charlotte Bergmann, a black conservative Republican, fought the good fight, but sadly the plantation is still alive and well in Memphis.
Fincher rolled over Herron for TN-8, unsurprisingly. Roy Herron didn't stand a chance. Being closely identified with AlGore and the retiring and much disdained John Tanner had to have hurt him.
Bill Haslam sailed into the governor's office. Again, no surprise. Mike McWherter is the son of former Governor Ned Ray McWherter, and that was his only qualification. Next!
OS did have hopes for the GOP to take the Senate, but it is not to be. New York and California just assume TheOne will be bailing them out, with no accountability required. So they vote for more of the same.
Someone send them the memo, please.
We are on the front end of the real pain. They gotta figure things out for themselves.
Michigan and Ohio both voted in conservative GOP governors. For those reading from overseas, this would have been unimaginable even a couple of years ago. Both states have finally felt the lash badly enough, and the voters in the small towns and outlying counties finally decided to install some grownups.
The shadow hanging over it all is Obama. Anyone who identified with the man, apart from deep-blue states, went down in flames.
He'll dismiss it all tomorrow, blame it on Bush, on the stupid voters, on the citizenry who he considers his enemies, on anyone except where the responsibility lies. Then he'll climb on his BigBird for a trip to Mumbai, spending money we're borrowing from China at the rate of $200,000,000 a day.
We've sent him the memo, ya'll. Still don't think He's read it yet.
Waiting on Nevada...
Showing posts with label TN-9 Congressional Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TN-9 Congressional Race. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Spin, Spin, Spin--Until The Spin Stops Working: Memphis TN-9 Congressional Race
It appears that Charlotte Bergmann, the GOP candidate for TN-9, the Congressional seat for Memphis, may truly be poised to upset Steve Cohen, the Democratic incumbent.
Charlotte is the Democrats' nightmare: She's black, she's accompished, she's conservative, she's a church lady, and she's--well--a she. And she ain't skeered of nobody.
Memphis has been a virtual Democrat plantation for decades, dating back to its founding by Andrew Jackson, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, and Boss Crump, who ran the place for nearly four decades. He was succeeded by the Ford family, famous for its mortuary and funeral business, and its curious habit of voting the dead. Wonder how that happened, huh? The patriarch, John, is still serving out his sentence for selling his office of State Senator to undercover FBI agents with a briefcase of cash. They had him on video for the trial. He also raised eyebrows when he emptied his 9mm into a lorry that pissed him off one day on I-40, if memory serves.
It is also one of America's most blighted, violent, and racially divided cities. Portions are just fabulously beautiful, but so many who could escape to the eastern suburbs did just that. Memphis is a place unto itself, its own state of being.
It may be just about to wake up to what the welfare state has done to it.
This from The Memphis Commercial Appeal from last week.
It doesn't take a degree in political science or expertise in demography to understand the challenge Democrats find themselves facing after the first four days of early voting: Matching the energy and motivation of traditional Republican voters for the Nov. 2 elections is again proving difficult after an August election that was disastrous for local Democrats.
This time around, the results could reverberate well beyond Shelby County borders to the respective Capitol Hills in Nashville and Washington.
The data made available by the Shelby County Election Commission from the first three days of early voting (Wednesday through Friday) show that of the 15,600 people who cast early ballots, 8,623 were categorized as registered white voters, or 55.3 percent of the overall total -- a stunning number considering that white people make up just 29.8 percent of the county's 603,070 registered voters.
Compare that to ballots cast by 3,033 registered black voters, or just 19.4 percent of the total for the group that records show account for 34.4 percent of the county's electorate.
Hmmm....and a goodly number of those black voters could well be voting for Ms. Bergmann!
Soooo...the Machine has really ratcheted up the ground game, and Himself has dispatched Cabinet members to campaign in Memphis. Nobody used to bother, 'cuz Memphis was a Democrat plantation. In other words, they have reason to worry.
Now, remember the spin? How this election isn't about Obama? Well, let's check in with the Dems campaigning in Memphis:
The big Republican numbers came despite a week of strong Democratic organizing, according to county chairman Van Turner. Democrats had a big rally Tuesday night in conjunction with President Barack Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, that included popular Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and two top White House cabinet-level officials -- Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter also greatly increased his presence here last week, including participating on phone banking Saturday.
Turner acknowledged that "the energy is on the Republicans' side," which he ascribed to "hatred and fear" of national Democratic leaders.
"We're trying to tell people that they went to the polls in record numbers in 2008 and they should not sit this one out," Turner said. "We say that a vote from you this election is a vote for the president."
Did ya'll catch that last line?
"We say that a vote from you this election is a vote for the president."
That first pronoun of the sentence is in the plural, ya'll.
'We'.
As the day approaches, the veneer begins to slip away. The spin jest won't pass the sniff test no moh'.
If you're a registered voter in Memphis, and you love your city, this is the best opportunity in years to break the back of the machine that has victimized your town for so long. It's a way to break the back of the racial polarization that the machine has fed and exploited in order to remain in power.
Even if Charlotte doesn't win, but has a good showing, your vote for her sends the message that timez iz changed, and bizness az uzual jest won't do no moh'.
Howz'at foh sum Hope-n-Change, ya'll?
Charlotte is the Democrats' nightmare: She's black, she's accompished, she's conservative, she's a church lady, and she's--well--a she. And she ain't skeered of nobody.
Memphis has been a virtual Democrat plantation for decades, dating back to its founding by Andrew Jackson, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, and Boss Crump, who ran the place for nearly four decades. He was succeeded by the Ford family, famous for its mortuary and funeral business, and its curious habit of voting the dead. Wonder how that happened, huh? The patriarch, John, is still serving out his sentence for selling his office of State Senator to undercover FBI agents with a briefcase of cash. They had him on video for the trial. He also raised eyebrows when he emptied his 9mm into a lorry that pissed him off one day on I-40, if memory serves.
It is also one of America's most blighted, violent, and racially divided cities. Portions are just fabulously beautiful, but so many who could escape to the eastern suburbs did just that. Memphis is a place unto itself, its own state of being.
It may be just about to wake up to what the welfare state has done to it.
This from The Memphis Commercial Appeal from last week.
It doesn't take a degree in political science or expertise in demography to understand the challenge Democrats find themselves facing after the first four days of early voting: Matching the energy and motivation of traditional Republican voters for the Nov. 2 elections is again proving difficult after an August election that was disastrous for local Democrats.
This time around, the results could reverberate well beyond Shelby County borders to the respective Capitol Hills in Nashville and Washington.
The data made available by the Shelby County Election Commission from the first three days of early voting (Wednesday through Friday) show that of the 15,600 people who cast early ballots, 8,623 were categorized as registered white voters, or 55.3 percent of the overall total -- a stunning number considering that white people make up just 29.8 percent of the county's 603,070 registered voters.
Compare that to ballots cast by 3,033 registered black voters, or just 19.4 percent of the total for the group that records show account for 34.4 percent of the county's electorate.
Hmmm....and a goodly number of those black voters could well be voting for Ms. Bergmann!
Soooo...the Machine has really ratcheted up the ground game, and Himself has dispatched Cabinet members to campaign in Memphis. Nobody used to bother, 'cuz Memphis was a Democrat plantation. In other words, they have reason to worry.
Now, remember the spin? How this election isn't about Obama? Well, let's check in with the Dems campaigning in Memphis:
The big Republican numbers came despite a week of strong Democratic organizing, according to county chairman Van Turner. Democrats had a big rally Tuesday night in conjunction with President Barack Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, that included popular Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and two top White House cabinet-level officials -- Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter also greatly increased his presence here last week, including participating on phone banking Saturday.
Turner acknowledged that "the energy is on the Republicans' side," which he ascribed to "hatred and fear" of national Democratic leaders.
"We're trying to tell people that they went to the polls in record numbers in 2008 and they should not sit this one out," Turner said. "We say that a vote from you this election is a vote for the president."
Did ya'll catch that last line?
"We say that a vote from you this election is a vote for the president."
That first pronoun of the sentence is in the plural, ya'll.
'We'.
As the day approaches, the veneer begins to slip away. The spin jest won't pass the sniff test no moh'.
If you're a registered voter in Memphis, and you love your city, this is the best opportunity in years to break the back of the machine that has victimized your town for so long. It's a way to break the back of the racial polarization that the machine has fed and exploited in order to remain in power.
Even if Charlotte doesn't win, but has a good showing, your vote for her sends the message that timez iz changed, and bizness az uzual jest won't do no moh'.
Howz'at foh sum Hope-n-Change, ya'll?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)