Department of recycled material, via Larry David: Can't go on. Must go on. Can't go on.
Just a few days now, and then, no more tracking polls, no more Tad Devine or Ken Mehlman. No more Alex. No more Alex. No more "Wrong man...." No more "He took his eye off the ball...." No more 527s. No more boring Senate race. No more white noise. No more politics.
David Ammons, our very own Ron Fournier (Uggh. BtC is turning into The Note), wraps up state polls for AP.
"Washington’s gubernatorial race has tightened, with Republican Dino Rossi pulling closer to the longtime Democratic front-runner, Christine Gregoire, in new polls.
Polls also had Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry with a continuing slim lead over President Bush in the state, and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray with a broader lead over GOP nominee George Nethercutt."
Note the big undecideds in the Senate race. Undecideds break to the challenger, so that race might be closer.
Bon Jovi is campaigning with Jon Edwards. A colleague suggests a campaign slogan: "Bon Jovi/Sambora in 2004a" (rhymes with Sambora.)
A fun game. The laugh track is killer.
The Yakamas are working to get out the vote, the Herald reports. This follows earlier reporting done by Sara Jean Green in The Seattle Times. A reservation in South Dakota delivered the election to Tim Johnson there in 2002.
This story in the Skagit Valley Herald doesn't quite live up to the hyperventilating lede.
"The race between two Whidbey Island residents has taken a negative turn as the candidates wage a war of words in the final days of battle for an open seat in the state House of Representatives."
Down in graf 25 or so, we learn about some mildly negative mailers. Ya'll don't know negative campaigning. At all.
You want negative campaigning? Check this out.
"OWENSBORO - A top state Republican called Demo-cratic U.S. Senate candidate Dan Mongiardo 'limp-wristed,' and another GOP state legislator said she questions whether 'the word "man" applies to him' in speeches during Sen. Jim Bunning's campaign bus tour yesterday."
Marc Ramirez profiles young conservatives on campus.
Oregon
Kerry leads by six in an Oregonian poll.
Alaska
Here's a wrapup on the third and final debate between Tony Knowles and Lisa Murkowski.
Fun exchange:
"But Murkowski stretched the baseball metaphor into extra innings when, given the opportunity to ask Knowles a question, said that in Congress he would have to decide which team he was on.
'You're either a member of the Boston Red Sox or the St. Louis Cardinals. You only score a run if you're on one of these. Will you be on the Democratic team?' she asked, trying to pin Knowles to such bogeymen for Republicans as Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
But Knowles didn't bite.
'I'm gonna be on Alaska's team," he said, to the roar of the audience. He said he would work with either party, or fight either party, "to put Alaska first.'
Murkowski said "that defies reality. There's only two teams.' "
National
Tom Delay, the Republican majority leader in the House, is in some trouble. No, not ethics or legal trouble, though that, too, but electoral trouble, in his usually reliably safe seat. He leads by seven in a recent poll.
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