Are We There Yet?

I was thinking the other night...

It seems a little disappointing to me that, in three races, the better candidate is likely to lose. I'm thinking DeWine (not as likely as...), Santorum and Mark Kennedy. All three appear to me, based in part on the debates I've seen, to be the better of the candidates in their respective races. Santorum appears much more passionate than Casey, and more solid. Klobuchar seems a bit jittery next to Kennedy's calm demeanor. And I just can't believe that Ohioans would vote to put someone like Brown, and all he stands for and with the votes to prove it, over someone like DeWine.

Those three baffle me. I can only chalk it up to climate, particularly in DeWine's case. Burns, Talent and Corker, however, are just facing good, solid and sometimes smooth candidates. The only one of those that I can see has done anything notable to hurt himself is Burns.

I have also seen recently why third party candidates, for the most part, remain on the fringe and are not taken seriously. There was a debate this weekend amongst the many candidates for Henry Cuellar's seat here in the San Antonio are (he, incidentally, was absent). An Independent candidate looked uncomfortable, as if he was up there because he lost a bet or something. The candidate from the Constitution party had no clue about the minimum wage and the Clean Air act. He came out and said he didn't really have an opinion on the former while he claimed to not know much about the latter. He was certainly a contrast to that party's candidate for President a couple years ago. And then there was the fire-breathing Libertarian candidate for the Montana Senate seat. "Impeach Bush" this and "Impeach Bush" that!

This is kinda why I'm looking forward to November 8th.