I should have added in to this the fact that it is even more complicated this time around. It is a special election. An astute viewer might read what I wrote and ask "okay, if it is Peltoka who won and the others are eliminated then how the hell does that work? The real election is in November and does that mean she runs unopposed? Nope. It is more complicated than that. The primary is doing double duty to determine who is going to finish out the term of Don Young - who died in office- which runs until January. So Peltoka is now the one elected to do that. But all top four are still entitled to run in the general election in November for the next full congressional term. Theoretically Palin could win that if the votes were close and more republicans wanted to get out more vote. Of course the dems will get out more votes too. Not looking good for Palin. Yeh gets complicated-er and complicated-er. Murkowski is up for re-election in November too. So she will have to try her luck with their voting kabuki dance system.
Reality says that's not true. There is something about sincerity and honesty that seems to appeal to voters.
Five Points On How Republicans May Still Blow A Winnable Seat In New Hampshire https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/republicans-bolduc-new-hampshire-hassan-primary It’s hard to put a positive spin on the Republican Senate candidate class when the party’s Senate leader can’t even muster the energy to pretend. “I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said at a Kentucky event earlier this month. “Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.” Youch. As bad as things are for the party — Mehmet “crudité” Oz and Blake “everybody go read the Unabomber” Masters are trailing their Democratic foes significantly in purple states — Republicans are poised to add yet another deeply flawed candidate to the team. Retired Army Brigadier General Don Bolduc appears to be leading the Republican pack in New Hampshire, based on what few polls have been done. A recent St. Anselm College one shows him doubling the support for Chuck Morse, the bland but establishment-preferred president of the state Senate. Alas, Bolduc is a conspiracy theorist without a filter, someone who pals around with Michael Flynn and calls the state’s popular Republican governor a “Chinese communist sympathizer” whose family business “supports terrorism.” And just wait until you hear his thoughts on the 17th Amendment. For Republicans, nominating a kook in this state is no small embarrassment. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has been considered one of the most vulnerable incumbents since primary season started, approximately 100 years ago. She barely eked out her first win in 2016 and is still putting up lackluster approval numbers in the state. While McConnell’s ding on his potential future colleagues was notably lacking in accountability, he may come to regret his failure to recruit New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) to run (Sununu said that McConnell’s strategy of comprehensive opposition made the idea of working at the Senate repellent) as one of the greatest lost opportunities of the cycle. Here are five things to know about Bolduc before the New Hampshire primary on Sept. 13, the last competitive one of the year. 1. Weirdly, Chris ‘Chinese communist sympathizer’ Sununu is not a fan. “He’s not a serious candidate, he’s really not, and if he were the GOP nominee I have no doubt we would have a much harder time,” Sununu said of Bolduc on local New Hampshire WGIR radio. “He’s kind of a conspiracy theorist-type candidate.” Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who’s declared himself on a mission to oust Sununu, agrees with his would-be oustee on Bolduc’s deficiencies. “Chuck Morse and Kevin Smith and others would make the general election competitive,” Lewandowski told Politico of other Republicans in the race. “It makes it a winnable seat.” Republicans in the state are generally looking to boost Morse instead, who McConnell also mentioned would make a good candidate after Sununu crushed GOP hopes and dreams. 2. But … what about kingmaker Trump? Like a teen treasuring a scrap of paper bearing his crush’s handwriting, Bolduc has previously campaigned on the one crumb of praise former President Donald Trump tossed his way. Back in 2021: “Congratulations to General Don Bolduc on his incredible presentation regarding Mark Milley, the Taliban and China’s all-time favorite General!” Trump cheered via his Save America PAC after Bolduc favorably impressed him on Fox and Friends. That exclamatory tidbit has been followed by silence, however. Trump cast his lot with a different Republican when Bolduc was aiming to unseat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in 2020, and has not yet waded into this year’s battle. Lewandowski, hyping his peas-in-a-pod relationship with the former president, has suggested that Trump won’t endorse Bolduc. The Republican field right now in New Hampshire is unsettled and largely undecided — the perfect environment for a headline endorsement to reshuffle things. 3. He’s a consistent election denier. If Bolduc does win Trump’s support, it’ll likely have something to do with his commitment to doubting the results of the 2020 election — and promising to defy the results of the next one, should he be called to do so. “I thought there was a tremendous amount of fraud,” he told the New Yorker, adding: “The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020.” He also signed a May 2021 letter that opens with: “Our Nation is in deep peril. We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.” It devolves into a MAGA greatest hits mixtape. Any buyer’s remorse now, a year later and a year closer to likely having to appeal to some independents and conservative Democrats to win the seat? “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Donald Trump won the election and, damn it, I stand by” [it], Bolduc said during an August debate. 4. He’s innovative in his anti-government arguments. During that same debate — which Morse skipped — Bolduc planted his flags on some other hot-button issues in the political discourse, like the 17th Amendment. He said that he supports repealing the amendment, which requires the direct election of senators. Before it was ratified in 1913, that power lay with state legislatures. In an interesting coincidence, Republicans control both chambers of the New Hampshire state legislature. Bolduc also mused over whether we should just scrap the FBI altogether. “The first question we have to ask is, do we still need the FBI? If we answer that question no, then get rid of them,” he said. The remarks came on the heels of the Mar-a-Lago raid. In a different debate last week, Bolduc neatly summed up his view of the government he’s trying to join, while giving the provision of the Inflation Reduction Act that lets Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices a thumbs down. “Anything the government’s involved in, it’s not good, it doesn’t work,” he said. 5. He plays the hits. Bolduc makes waves with his foreign policy stances too. In the last year, he called for the United States military to “get in there on the ground” in Ukraine. He’s also fully embraced the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic is “China’s fault,” because they developed it in a lab and let it escape. Back stateside, he called Black Lives Matter protesters “domestic terrorists” and accused Bill Gates and George Soros of funding “domestic terrorist organizations” during the 2020 protests. He’s also been an avid anti-vaxxer, again crediting Gates with unmatched supervillainy. The billionaire, Bolduc posits, wants to use the COVID-19 vaccine as an excuse to implant computer chips in an unwitting populace. “The only bracelets anyone is going to put on me are handcuffs, because I’m fighting for my individual rights, my constitutional rights,” Bolduc said in a May 2020 YouTube video. “And the only chip that’s going in me is a Dorito.”
Tom Cotton complains that a voting system that allows a politician who did not win the popular vote to win is a rigged system. Who's going to tell him?
Republicans have a 'GOP problem' -- Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania: former lawmaker https://www.rawstory.com/gop-senate-hopes/ Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Labor Day morning, former Rep. Dave Jolly (R-FL) said the Republicans' chances of taking control of the Senate are quickly slipping away because of terrible candidates in three key states as well as internal turmoil among the party's leadership over massive amounts of money that have been spent ineffectively by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). (More at above url)
King MAGA is back Trump: Fetterman Dresses "Like A Teenager Getting High In His Parents' Basement," Wears "Dirty, Dirty, Dirty Sweatsuits" "This guy is a disaster," Trump said of Fetterman. "He comes in with a sweatsuit on. I've never seen him wear a suit. And dirty, dirty, dirty sweatsuits, really disgusting. You know, I'm a clean freak. I'm a clean freak, [Dr.] Oz. I don't like those dirty sweatsuits. They're disgusting. Fetterman may dress like a teenager getting high in his parents' basement but he's a raging lunatic hellbent on springing hardened criminals out of jail in the middle of the worst crime wave in Pennsylvania history. He wants everybody out of jail, and by the way he wants to get rid of your police. Fetterman is a defund the police Marxist who's just pulling the wool over people's eyes, who literally said that if he had a magic wand and could fix one thing he would end life sentences without parole for murderers, cop killers, rapists, and other monstrous criminals. That's what he said." "He wants them to get out of jail. Get out of jail. Get out of jail! Let's put Trump in jail, let's get these murderers, let these murderers out. Put Trump in jail, hat Trump is no damn good. He just works his ass off for this country," Trump said.
Along with Trump's claims in his recent Pennsylvania rally that Fetterman does drugs, etc. Does Trump sound like a sane person that actually is addressing the issues? Or an example of a nutcase raging lunatic? Let me tell you the answer -- Trump is a nutcase raging lunatic whose spews nonsense devoid of reality or facts. Just like a number of people in this forum.