Because those in Britain are concerned about their relationship with the United States (I heard someone say so in the teevee recently), we get to watch updates on the run-up to the mid-term elections, and I was very interested to notice that Bush is travelling to shore up support for his party’s candidates, but
he is staying away from battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, where many Republican candidates would rather not campaign with him at this late hour.
Haha. And I especially wanted to post this:
Rep. Michael E. Sodrel (Ind.), one of three highly endangered Hoosier Republicans, treats his Democratic opponent, former congressman Baron Hill, as the incumbent, striking a popular Democratic theme when he charges that Hill voted for policies that send Indiana jobs to China.
When I read the above paragraph to Neil, he pointed to himself and said, “And I was the one who took those jobs!” (We’ve left China now, so Indiana can heave a sigh of relief.)
Either way, all these political ads suck.
A look at financial reports filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission showed that, on Wednesday alone, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $12.4 million on advertising in 36 districts; the National Republican Congressional Committee spent $5.9 million on commercials in 17 districts.
All that money could have been spent on improving suburbs and cities where voters live.