Scott Lee Cohen, who inexplicably won the state's Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, to drop out of the race.

It's not inexplicable at all. You note yourself that he spent large bucks -- many, many more than his opponents had. Add to that the state committee's perennial indifference to mounting good candidates in the lieutenant governor's race, and you wind up with people like this.

Cohen is being strongly pressured behind the scenes (by the whole party, which is now awake) to drop out. They want it done as quickly and painlessly as possible. We'll see if they can convince him that whatever treat they offer him as an enticement for quitting beats him spending eight months and many more millions to inevitably lose the race.

What genius came up with the demon sheep faces on the Fiorina ads??? They are truly disturbing.

There are at least two independent links to the Demon Man-Sheep commercial among my facebook friends.

AND "The stimulus worked and prevented another Republican caused great depression. When they say it did not, the Republicans are following the dictum of Lenin, One lie told long enough becomes the truth."

Commercial Review: George Bernard Shaw in reviewing a play around 1880 once wrote to the effect that, if you took a mechanical rabbit and set it hopping about the room, he would be very amused. Yet, if you look a live rabbit and set hopping around, he would say, "why shouldn't it?" And take down his gun.

Yes its slick and catchy. But that should be standard for a campaign commercial in Calif. However, it's disjointed and bizzare and vicious, which some find part of its charm.

And I agree, had this been a skit on Saturday Night Live (are we sure Andy Sandberg did not come up with this concept, although SNL would have edited it better) or a production by a college student. I am all for arts for arts sake.

Still, this is a campaign for a person who ran HPackard into the ground. And one would think that she would restrain the weirdness at least until after the election lest one connect the two.

Of course, Republican voters in California primaries may like weirdness being rather kooky religious, hard right wing, John Bircher, Father Coughlin, Pat Robertson people themselves.

Ulimately, I suppose the test for any public statement like a commercial should be, would I want my kids or my grandparents names associated with it? Here, unlike the Daisy commercial, I vote no.

It's still funny though.

meanwhile

The stimulus worked and prevented another Republican caused great depression. When they say it did not, the Republicans are following the dictum of Lenin, One lie told long enough becomes the truth.

And you know, hard right wing Republicans seem to think that kooky weird makes you kind of hip and cool. But it doesn't. (And I know, as a kid I have been there and done that.) People just think you are weird and strange. Hence the reaction to the commercial.

Carly Fiorina has plenty of money to channel M. Night Shyamalan with her political ads. Not many people could get fired from their job because of incompetence which resulted in company stock plunging by 50% overnight and walk away with a $21.4 Million severance package. That's a lot of don't-let-the-door-hit-you-in-the-ass. Most people are held up as a fuckup when they make that much of a mess, rather than a celebrity.

"Hoeven is perceived as unbeatable, but Potter said he's "going to take on Goliath.""

This is sorta interesting. With the two months of non-stop positive media coverage of GOP successes, portraying the Dems as the underdog might shift the narrative a bit...

If Fiorina is promising more ads like the last one, which clearly communicates that Real Republicans are sheep, I say to keep 'em coming and go national!

Too bad about Coats. I'd rather see an open Republican in the seat than Evan Bayh, the closet Republican.

It doesn't do the Democratic party any good to these fakers in the ranks. We have to let these people go; they'll never vote for the things we want.

Is it just me or does 'Doug Hoffman' look like someone you might see skulking around a school yard?

In Michigan, don't be too surprised if former Rep. Joe Schwarz runs for governor as an independent this year. Schwarz, who served in Congress as a Republican, lost a 2006 primary after GOP voters deemed him too moderate.

he is actually a good politician and it was Michigan's loss that he was forced out - and i say this as a voter who loathes repukes and tea baggers.

he would be a heck of a lot better choice than most if not all of the other announced candidates.

IL state rep Art Turner (who finished second to Scott the Knife) "I won't say I'm bitter, but it's amazing how much the press knew [about Cohen's domestic troubles]. Even more amazing how it hit the fan only AFTER the election."