Tuesday, November 8th, 2005...12:21 pm
Poor Poor Pitiful Fred
When I voted this morning, there was a Kathleen Dunbar sign at the polling place, but no Fred Ronstadt sign. Later, I gave a neighbor a ride to the polls and there was a Ronstadt sign. A nice one too, with stars and everything.
Now we know where that campaign money has been going.
Jim Nintzel of the Tucson Weekly was on John C. Scott’s show (can I just call him John Ulm?) and said this is the best grassroots campaign he has seen from the Democrats. Very true. The Republicans had to cancel at least one weekend walk with Mayor Bob Walkup because of a lack of volunteers. If this is a close race between Dunbar and Karin Uhlich, which I anticipate, then Uhlich wins this because of the near non-existent grassroots effort from the Republicans, and the fantastic efforts from the Democrats.
And…the Barney bus…more on that later.
Of course, I have been wrong about reading races before. For example, I saw that Nina Trasoff’s phone bankers were getting ID calls in the primary that showed her beating Steve Farley by two to one. I thought, no way that’s right. I mean, Trasoff may be ahead, but no way by that much. Then, she won by, uh, two to one.
Non-party run phone banks are showing not much drop off among Democratic voters from Trasoff to Uhlich. This would mean not only a sweep by Democrats, but abject decimation of the Republicans. I don’t think the race will be that much of a walk for Uhlich, I am more conservative. First time for everything.
Get out there and vote, darn you!
5 Comments
November 8th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Uh, thanks for the fix, now how about that turnout update?
November 8th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
How dare you disparage Zevon by associating his song with Fred Ronstadt!
November 8th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
So cautious Ted. Doesn’t it feel great to be wrong for once?
November 9th, 2005 at 9:08 am
Zevon disparaged himself by letting his songs be associated with second rate Tom Cruise movies.
November 9th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Don’t say that about Warren, man. He’s dead!