by Chris Bowers, Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 09:58:18 PM EST
Tags: Governor's 2005-6 (all tags)
Nevada just broke my heart. Could they really have voted for that guy?
We blew it in the primary, nominating Titus instead of the more moderate Jim Gibson. The party leaders and big money donors properly handicapped the state dynamic and backed Gibson, but Clark County dictates the nominee and the base preferred to roll the dice with Dina.
She was the more aggressive and impressive candidate during the primary, so it's hard to fault on that basis, but I knew damn well once Washoe County (Reno) results came in she would get buried. That's a 50/50 county that Kerry won narrowly, but Titus had called northern Nevada a sponge and rascals in the state legislature years ago. Gibbons abused those remarks in commercials.
The big races in Nevada predictably failed, but we won four statewide races out of six, which is fantastic since Republicans held all of them the last four years.
Tessa Hafen was the most undeserved loser of the night, the Harold Ford of the House races. She ran a near flawless race but Jon Porter shamelessly labeled her a carpetbagger and it stuck, just enough. Hafen was born and raised in the Las Vegas area and is a third generation Nevadan.
Gary, sorry but you are wrong. Gibson was a terrible candidate without a platform and he would have been destroyed by Gibbons, because he was detested by the Democratic base voters. Enough of that.
Titus did nto call northern Nevadans rascals, and you know it. She called northern Nevadan politicians and state officials who were diverting emergency flood money to other causes "rascals."
We all appreciate your great postings here and on Gleaner, but you are dead wrong to repeat these fallacies.
Titus' campaign was an historic, grass-roots, small-donor-funded, issues-based, progressive campaign that will leave a lasting legacy of an organized, activist base for the future. She was the first serious candidate for Governor, or any statewide office, ever in this state, not to be funded primarily by mining, gaming or development.
It was a campaign of belief, run by people who believed.
And very soon that movement is going to win and win very big in this state. Gibbons may have won last night, but the big news is that we have turned a corner away from being a backwater towards a state that will belong for the first time ever to its own people.
Dina Titus, not Jim Gibson or Jim Gibbons, did that.
It would be simply idiotic for us to go back to the moribund, conservative, special interest party we where in this state only a few years ago.
NBC: Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty apparently re-elected in Minnesota
In Colorado, something has happened that has not happened for a long, long time (no, Rick Santorum, not the awakening of the Ents): the Governorship, the State House, and the State Senate are all 3 firmly in the hands of Democrats!
Hot Damn! This doesn't quite make up for '04, but it goes a long, long way toward it!
Wasn't Iowa a keep and not a pickup...
I have pickups as CO, AR, NY, OH, MA, and MS.
The wave did not miss Minnesota. It took both of our legislative houses, our U.S. Senate Seat, one flipped house seat, and a sweep of our constitutional officers except for governor. Mike Hatch probably would have won the governors race if it weren't for the Independence Party candidate. The IP candidate was the type that really appealed to Democrats. He did well in the liberal strongholds. Closer examination of the numbers in Minnesota will be very strong evidence that third party candidates are indeed spoilers. Hatch had his blunders, but he would have won a two way race.
MARYLAND is a Governor pick-up.
Hello, O'Malley-Goodbye, Ehrlich.
Ehrlich conceded today.
Steele has not yet conceded. He is "only" 130,000 votes behind Senator Ben Cardin. Steele thought we MD voters were stupid, would believe his Steele-Democrat signs. How insulting!
GO DEMS!
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