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Cool Things To Look Out For

Posted on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:48pm by Brian Kaufman

Two things:

First, if you're worried that tomorrow's vote is going to be boring because Hillary's going to win by an estimated 153 to negative 53 (see what I did there? i still made them add up to 100), there's reason to get excited. Democratic House candidates have have been unlikely winners in a couple special elections recently (Last month: Dennis Hastert's seat; last week: a Mississippi seat that had been held by Republicans since 1975).
There's another open seat in Mississippi (Republican Roger Wicker left to take Trent Lott's seat in the Senate last year) and the special election runoff is tomorrow. In this district that voted 62% for Bush in 2004, Democrat Travis Childers got 49.4% of the vote in the first ballot round, oh so close to getting the majority he needed. If Childers wins tomorrow, the GOP will really start to panic.
UPDATE: Childers won!

Second, Barack Obama said today that he would be willing to debate John McCain in town-hall events during the summer.

Obama, an Illinois senator, was responding to a question citing reports that McCain's advisers have suggested the two should campaign together this summer, debating at town hall meetings without a moderator.

While I realize that this probably means the McCain advisers think McCain will win these debates, I still think this idea is really awesome. Maybe it's just my West Wing idealism, but the voters deserve actual debates on actual issues, and this would be a great way to do it.