Who is going to be the major flop candidate?

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I don't know her - but I have a feeling that the flop candidate is going to be this Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire.  The media is gushing over her just like they were about whoever ran against Klobuchar in 2006.  I think the major surprise candidate is going to be Carly Fiorina.

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Carly Fiorina should go down in flames.

Yes, I agree, but your state continually chooses those who should go down in flames (post Governor Wilson).  Arnold, Boxer, Waxman, Issa, Davis, Pelosi.  There's enough to go around.  And for some reason, I think Carly's got that "magic" touch.

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Carly Fiorina should go down in flames.

Yes, I agree, but your state continually chooses those who should go down in flames (post Governor Wilson).  Arnold, Boxer, Waxman, Issa, Davis, Pelosi.  There's enough to go around.  And for some reason, I think Carly's got that "magic" touch.

she got fired from both HP [CEO] and the McCain campaign [economic spokeswoman]


something tells me California voters aren't gonna fall in love with a CEO who got fired for incompetence, ran her company into the ground, and took tens of millions of dollars in a golden parachute as a severance package

Who said anything about love .  I'm just talking about who your state elects, and they are people who clearly are unfit for elective office.

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we're a shallow electorate, true, but it's not a matter of whoever is the MOST unfit that wins...otherwise Gary Coleman would have won his bid for governor

Well, yeah, its not just a matter of that - but it plays a big role.  That whole thing was a circus and it should have been just McClintock against Bustamante, they were far more serious candidates than anything else that came out of that race (the stripper, Larry Flynt, Arnold, Arianna Huffington, the peyote guy).  I will say this - I think Arnold is being the grownup right now in your budget crisis, and thats pretty sad.

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Pat Toomey, once the state of Pennsylvania realizes how conservative he really is.

I actually think he's going to win big.  If Specter wins the primary (and Obama and Biden are trying to help him win), then Specter goes down in defeat.  Toomey also won in a district that had more democrats in it.  I wouldn't count him out.  The democrats in PA stand to lose the most from the healthcare travails.

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We'll see this when the whole democratic party goes down in flames.

My take on the 2010 midterms:

"Its ironic that Republican hopes for gaining seats rests on their hope that the recession caused primarily by their own economic mismanagement under Bush and distaste for regulating markets is sustained and painful into next year."

I hereby reserve the right to repeat this repeatedly anytime in the next year that Republicans get too joyful over declining poll numbers for Obama or any Democratic candidate.

I don't think any of us legitimately want the market to fail for people - I would love for it to get better because it would help people out.  And our hopes for regaining seats has nothing to do with the recession continuing, but people seeing his socialist policies for what they are, which is happening now with the healthcare debate.

You have to admit though that having joy of declining poll numbers is:

a)what any partisan does, democrat or republican
b)mainly stronger for us because we haven't had a good year since 04
c)our desire to move past the inflated and outright disgusting positivity in the media towards Obama - a luxury never afforded to Bush when he was first in office