Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Only 5 more days until election day and 3 more days until the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. It’s going to be an exciting few days!
Interesting news out of Alaska. GOP candidate Joe Miller is tanking and both McAdams and Murkowski are surging. McAdams appears to be picking up some of the Miller support. I think this is possibly winnable by the Democrat considering the write-in law in Alaska.
A new poll conducted by Hays Research confirms what we already intuitively know. Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s candidacy is in big trouble.
The percentage of those who feel either “somewhat negative” or “very negative” about Miller has skyrocketed in recent weeks to an unbelievable 68%. Only 8% feel “somewhat negative” and the remainder, a jaw-dropping 60%, feel “very negative” about Miller as a candidate.
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The result? Scott McAdams surging ahead of Joe Miller with 29%, Joe Miller with 23%, and the write-in candidate (most of which are presumably Lisa Murkowski) with a small gain bringing her to 34%, and undecided voters still at 13%. This is the first time that McAdams has polled better than Miller, and he did it by six points, comfortably outside the margin of error of 4.8% – a watershed moment for the McAdams campaign.
I think the Alaska Senate race is going to come down to a recount. The write-in rules in Alaska are tough – the name must be spelled properly and the precincts can’t display a list of write-in candidates. It’s possible a large number of Murkowski votes will be thrown out. I don’t know but my gut says at least 5%. That would put McAdams and Murkowski in a tie. I just hope the DNC has recount lawyers on speed dial to be sent to Alaska.
There’s another candidate in Kentucky besides Rand Paul that doesn’t think much of women. Check out KY-03’s Tom Lally:
In Kentucky, one Republican is standing firm against the concept of gender discrimination. Todd Lally, insurgent GOP nominee for Congress in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, says he’s never personally seen women be discriminated against — and therefore, he says, gender discrimination may not exist at all.
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The question of gender roles in Kentucky came up in an Oct. 11 debate between the 3rd Congressional District candidates on the state’s public television network. The topic was raised by one of those female voters both Tally and Yarmuth will be relying on to win Nov. 2. Here’s how that sounded:
It is well known that we are the third-worst state for women to live in the nation. We rank at the bottom third of the nation in terms of health and well-being, equity, political leadership and education. I’d like to ask each gentleman what they have in their platform to address these disparities?
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Here’s what Lally said:
I look at women’s issues like any other issue. We have equal rights in this country, we have fought — women have fought very hard for those equal rights. Uh, it’s up to them. I mean my wife is a working woman, she works very, very hard and she’s been very successful. I’ve not seen any barriers in her career and I don’t believe that exists.
Luckily he’s up against John Yarmuth, he lead in the last poll. So hopefully there’s one less Congressman for the He Man Woman Hater’s Club.