Joe Kent is running for Congress against first-term Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) in Washington’s 3rd district, who beat him in 2022. The contest is a rematch of Perez’s 2022 defeat of Kent by less than 1% of the vote (see results here). The district is nominally Republican, and th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Elections’
September 25th, 2024 - 1:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Wisconsin mayor drags his city into ballot drop box wars
Wisconsin was a pivotal state in the 2020 election, and could be again in 2024. Absentee voting is optional in that state, at the voter’s choice with no reason required. For military personnel, travelers, persons working away from home (e.g., truck drivers and airline crews), the elderly and d[...]
September 19th, 2024 - 1:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
2024’s worst GOP candidate just got even worse
Mark Robinson (photo, left) wasn’t going to win the 2024 election for North Carolina governor anyway. He was under 40% in many recent polls. Now, his fellow Republicans are calling on him to drop out, and the Trump campaign has told him he’s not welcome at their rallies. This comes on th[...]
Who’s most to blame for divisive political rhetoric?
This Newsweek article (read it here) is titled, “Has 2024 Campaign Rhetoric Gone Too Far? Analysts Weigh In.” Let’s start with what people agree on: “Polling suggests that most Americans agree that the country is too divided by politics. An Ipsos survey … found that 81 [...]
September 16th, 2024 - 8:20 pm § in Politics
Don’t elect Carrie R. Kennedy to Washington’s legislature
Carrie R. Kennedy (photo, right; profile here) is an Oath Keeper who ran for Congress in 2022, finishing 6th in the primary (see results here), and is running for a legislative seat in 2024 in a district that includes Whidbey Island. Although she eked out a weak second place in the primary and is on[...]
September 9th, 2024 - 5:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
I can’t prove J. D. Vance kidnaps and eats cats
Nor does he have any evidence that Haitian immigrants kidnap and eat cats, but that doesn’t keep him from saying they do (see story here). Why is he doing it? Huffington Post said (here) that “it appears Vance was responding to a collection of rumors and baseless internet posts related t[...]
WA public lands commissioner: Upthegrove gains 2 votes in recount, will advance to November election
Dave Upthegrove (photo, left; bio here), 53, a Democrat, likely will be Washington’s next Commissioner of Public Lands. He’s currently a King County Councilman, and previously served in the legislature. He will succeed Hilary Franz, a Democrat who didn’t seek reelection and instead[...]
September 1st, 2024 - 4:19 pm § in Politics
Election errors aren’t fraud
Here is an example of an inadvertent error by election workers. It resulted in 188 voters in a Wisconsin town not being able to vote in the 2024 GOP primary election for a state assembly seat. This happened because staff in the county election clerk’s office mixed up recently redrawn state leg[...]
August 26th, 2024 - 6:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. senator
Arizona’s open seat in the 2024 Senate elections is a missed opportunity for Republicans. They will not get a pickup here. Kari Lake (photo, left) cruised to an easy GOP primary victory over nutty Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb, but will lose to Rep. Ruben Gallego in November, keeping this seat in [...]
2024’s worst candidate
This isn’t an easy call to make, because there’s so many to choose from, but I’m going with Michele Morrow (photo, left; profile here), who won an upset primary victory in North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction race. That state’s GOP candidate for governo[...]