Less of a prognostication, and more of a wish list
Posted by: Donna
I’m about 65% when it comes to predicting local races. Which means that I’m essentially going on conventional wisdom and the registration breakdown of the district. Beyond that I’m throwing darts on a board, with the slight wind of the insider knowledge in my repertoire to help me predict outcomes at my back. Every race has it’s own idiosyncracies, and I’m not intimately familiar with what all of them are.
That said, here is what I WANT to happen tomorrow:
Decisive Obama win. The hands-down best poll analyst of the season has decreed it to be so: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ Nate Silver knows what he is doing. Read his site and you will be edified.
Bob Lord win. Because John Shadegg is a whiny little crybaby who can’t legitimately defend his record on veteran’s issues in his ads. Plus he’s a snowbird who really wants to be a Senator.
Harry Mitchell: As if David Schweikert could really convince people to vote against their Grandpa, who has a big honkin’ statue in honor of him in Tempe.
Gabby Giffords and Ann Kirkpatrick: Obviously.
LD20: Ted Maish and Rae Waters. Because it’s my district and they rawwk!
LD12: Angela Cotera rawwks! And is a rocket scientist.
LD23: Rebecca Rios. Because she’s a good Legislator and Andre Campos is a creep who hearts Ron Paul and strip clubs.
Dan Saban: Because Joe Arpaio is a fascist thug and Dan is a decent guy who will do a good job.
Tim Nelson: Ditto Andrew Thomas and ditto Tim.
Ed Hermes: Because panty-obsessed right wing blogs need to brought down a peg or two.
Steven Sarkis (Arcadia/Biltmore JP): Because his opponent, Syd Steven Booth, is a violent felon who tried to intimidate me.
Other states (not all inclusive by any means):
Elwyn Tinklenberg for the win: I hope he opens a can of whupass on McCarthyite Michelle Bachmann.
Kay Hagen for the win: God doesn’t like you, Elizabeth Dole.
Joe the Plumber: The end to your interminable 15 minutes and the return to Ohio, where you will have to repay your back taxes and child support.
Sarah Palin: Ahh…. You will return to Alaska, where you will finish your one term, while facing more ethics charges. I don’t care what you do. Get Joe’s record deal, get a show on Fox, go on the lecture circuit, I don’t care. Just get out of my face, with your ignorant science-hating religious extremist ass.
The “socialism” and concommitant “redistribution” memes: Die an ignominous death as Americans realize that Trickle Down economics is the biggest fraud ever to be perpetuated upon the American people, and that we need things like bridges that don’t collapse and breast cancer research.
Earmarks: Will be examined for efficiency and effectiveness, under Obama, but will no longer be a convenient bugaboo for conservatives to use to distract Americans from the many ways our gov’t REALLY wastes money, i.e., defense contracts and tax cuts to billionaires who outsource American jobs. Will continue to be used to help states pay for things like ensuring that bridges don’t collapse and toward breast cancer research.
That’s it for now. Will update if I think of anything else. G’night fellow Divas and good luck on Election Day!
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I like your prediction and think you’re totally on.
Thank you for including Steven Sarkis in your list. He deserves the win on his own merit but more so due to his obnoxious opponant.