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May 31, 2006
CA-50: NRCC in panic mode; McCain abandons Bilbray
This is actually an amusing turn of events. As you probably know the immigration issue is a massive issue among Republicans in California. They split quite nicely into two groups, the business type Republicans who want cheap labor and the xenophobic bigots type Republicans that hate everyone that isn't white and would be happy to kill them all. Bilbray has been desperately trying to get voter turn out up for the election since he beat out the xenophobic bigot candidate in the election by barely a percentage point. So to play to the radical extremists he's had to attack McCain's slightly more humane plan to march them all into economic slavery. Well evidently the Bilbary attacks got so bad that it finally offended McCain to the point that he cancelled his visit to a Bilbary fundraiser. So a week before the election, Bilbary has managed to alienate a big name Republican.
I don't know how this will effect the election. I've been surprised by how well Busby is polling right now, even with all the negative campaign ads that the desperate NRCC has been running against her. Amusingly, the NRCC assumed that this was going to be an easy win, so they didn't buy in ad time on local television. The DCCC bought all their ad time in advance, so they paid half as much. That's a real good use of money by the Democrats. But the Republicans have an unlimited supply of corrupt K Street funds from dishonest legislation they paid for to draw upon, so we really aren't any better off. Ultimately it's going to be decided on June 6th. I think we win no matter how the election turns out.
Read more over at Daily Kos.
Posted by Jamison at May 31, 2006 2:47 PM
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