Welcome to another dreary spring day. I’m certainly ready for the sunshine to come back but the allergy sufferers may be enjoying these rainy days keeping the pollen low. I promise that this open thread will be 100% pollen-free.
The Dan Jones & Associates survey, which is also sponsored by the Utah Foundation and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, shows that Bennett, R-Utah, faces a big challenge among the 3,500 Republican delegates who will vote on him and seven other GOP Senate candidates May 8.
Just one key number from the Jones survey: 41 percent of the delegates said they absolutely will not vote for Bennett.
GOP convention rules say the ultimate second-place finisher must have at least 40 percent of the delegate vote to avoid final elimination. And the survey shows Bennett may not reach that percentage in the three rounds of voting.
No U.S. senator from Utah has been run out of office before a general election — defeated in either in a party primary or convention — since the early 1940s.
In the poll of delegates, Bennett is in 2nd place with 21%. It looks like Bennett may not even survive the convention to get to the primary. The convention is on May 8.
The George W. Bush memoir is coming out in November. I know you’re all rushing out to pre-order it.
Former President George W. Bush’s memoir, ”Decision Points,” will be released by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, on Nov. 9, the publisher said Monday. Mr. Bush will write about political and personal challenges and discuss his handling of events including the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as his embracing of his faith amid his effort to quit drinking. In a news release, Crown said that Mr. Bush would focus on 14 critical decisions in his life and share his reflections on subjects including the closely fought 2000 presidential election and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As far as I’m concerned the major decisions points in Bush’s presidency came when he picked Cheney and Rumsfeld. There were no decisions on Katrina. He put his incompetent crony into the FEMA spot and completely ignored the disaster – which pretty much describes what happened with every disaster in his presidency.