Just got the Patty Judge call on my voice mail. That makes three out of four (but perhaps I'm crossed off the Blouin list).
Judge used a recording, rather than the volunteer or staffer calls from Culver and Fallon (maybe Chris or KLSnow can elaborate). Bullet points:
One of our local politicos reports a pro-Judge call from another area politico of medium prominence. Will report more if I hear more.
Also, Rasmussen has a poll:
"Nussle is now nose-to-nose with Chet Culver (D), each man receiving support from 40% of likely voters. Nussle now leads Michael Blouin (D), 39% to 34%, Patty Judge (D), 40% to 36%." Only Ed Fallon (D)," trailing by 15 percentage points, is a clear loser to Nussle at this time."
Spent last evening helping put together the Johnson County caucus materials. State party sent out a lot of the usual stuff: the four Big governor contenders have letters but there's nothing from Sal Mohamed. Is Sal out of the loop, or just disorganized?
Excluding a "fringe" candidate can backfire; back in `92 a candidate who was more or less certifiable (believe me, I had to interview her) raised a big stink because the state party was helping one of the statewide candidates pre-primary. The basket case managed to get a lot of free publicity, but the Objective Journalism Paradigm did not allow the press to report "this woman is a basket case." (I had the luxury of a ten minute time slot on public radio and gave her enough rope to hang herself. One way to get the point across - and I used it as leverage to line up an interview with the REAL candidate.)
Anyway, Grandma Goofy managed to ride the publicity to 40% in the primary. Then she bolted the party, endorsed Perot, and ran as an independent. The high point of the campaign was her a cappella rendition of "Jesus Loves Me Yes I Know" at a seven candidate debate that was skipped by the GOP incumbent. Who was re-elected in a landslide.
I've been doing this stuff WAY too long.
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