You know, these daily "campaign round-up"s are so terribly surreal... with teh Repugnant Party being so insane and all...

...i hate readin' 'em -- even when teh Dims are goin' pretty good...

Meg Whitman's (R), who recently described herself as a "darned good" conservative Republican, endorsed Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D) re-election campaign in 2004. Whitman also contributed $4,000 to Boxer.

Hey, bribes aren't supposed to count. There are an awful lot of health insurance executive who've given money to Democrats (well, DINOs anyway) who I'm sure consider themselves good Republicans.

So, I wonder if Whitman can list the significant ideological/policy shifts Boxer has made in the last 6 years which has caused her 180 degree reversal?

ROFLMAO.

Re: Whitman's so-far misfiring campaign:

Bigshot corporate types are inevitably bad campaigners, and if they manage to win, such lousy elected leaders you have to wonder how they earned their reputations in the first place.

It's as though they're hot stuff only when pushing around the folks whose paychecks they sign.

The minute they have to deal with other politicians, journalists and ordinary voters, all of whom are able to pushback, the bigshot lustre wears off and disappears.

Remember when Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca were supposed to be the answer to everything that ailed the American political system?

We're better off having Trent Lott wheel and deal with Ted Kennedy.

I predict Whitman will not go far.

There's actually a reason that lawyers tend to be more successful politicians, and it's because, whatever ill you can say about them, they rarely work in a top down environment, and have to navigate all kinds of conflicts and competing priorities -- whether it's negotiating with a prosecutor or an opposing counsel, or getting consensus of the management board of the law firm. Executives who are used to giving orders and judging people based on how well they were carried out by their minions don't tend to succeed in politics.

Kendrick Meeks is alright but probably won't outpoll Crist. Now Alan Grayson for Senate on the other hand...

I'm having a really good time laughing loudly at Meg Whitman.

Meg Whitman really seems to have the political instincts of a log. What Republican primary voters are looking for is fire breathing and not fraternizing with the enemy. My prediction would be that within a week or two Meg Whitman will discover that she hasn't spent anywhere near enough time with her family.

Interesting historical trend: for the last 32 years, Virginia has sided with the gubernatorial candidate whose party had lost the presidential race the year prior.

As with most such "trends," the data set is way too small for a statistically meaningful trend. That said, yet another reason I hope we win this one is so I never have to hear that statistic again.

That said, yet another reason I hope we win this one is so I never have to hear that statistic again.

It would be almost as good as when we finally put to bed that "As Missouri goes, so goes the nation" yawner last year.

Au contraire, Shortstop-- Missouri went decisively for Obama last year. It was Missourah that went for McCain.

My prediction would be that within a week or two Meg Whitman will discover that she hasn't spent anywhere near enough time with her family. -- SRW1, @13:52

You mean all those minutes she spent with her family instead of wasting them on registering and voting aren't enough?

Interesting historical trend: for the last 32 years, Virginia has sided with the gubernatorial candidate whose party had lost the presidential race the year prior.

I have no opinion about which way Virginia will go this year, but these "historical trend" stories are extremely annoying and lazy journalism.

Here's Politico (the same site you link to) writing in 2007 about the pointlessness of Senators running for president.

Senators, like the soap star with the longest losing streak in Emmy history, keep coming back for more. They pooh-pooh the historical record. They tune out the colleagues sitting beside them who've tried and failed before. They dream about reversing the curse of the Senate and lunge toward the presidency.

The article went on like that for more than 800 words.

Congratulations to president Romney, I guess.

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