Dems won’t win Rhode Island; Chafee is a popular incumbent...
... beyond PA the Dems best chances are probably Montana where Burns is much weaker than the polls have suggested but is still favoured to win and Mississippi should Lott retire and Dem Mike Moore run.
Missouri is a better prospect than Rhode Island. Talent is simply not personally popular.
Talent has a positive approval rating. A decent one, too. Not a great one, especially for a member of the Senate. It is actually McCaskill being popular, rather than Talent being unpopular.
Still, McCaskill is doing better than she should be, considering.
I really hate when someone ends a sentence with a dangling participle.
What I mean is, now I'm left wondering, from the post I'm responding to, and especially in terms of McCaskill's popularity
vs. Talent's popularity
or perhaps not so popularity
and even on issues between the two candidates
or even historic trends in Missouri -- from the last sentence:
considering ... what exactly?
This is somewhat why I'm not enamored of much of politics in these latter days (especially since about the end of the 1970's to today), and many politicians -- yes, even our current occupant of the White House, is this inability to finish sentences
or the lack of regard to the English language
or any language (even if it was Martian
or Klingon
or Pig Latin). This shows a big dose of laziness, and let's find the easy way out of debating issues
or ideas by not completing sentences (W.'s father did this to). And it's really annoying
and quite lacking the ability to make a logical argument. But, oh well, what am I talking about, the majority of people in the U.S. in and out of government seem to be lacking this ability -- because of course I live here in Georgia where it's quite common. Of course if someone from Washington state is doing this as well, maybe it's not just isolated to Georgia? (UGH!!!) Now, I'm not a teacher, especially an English
or mathemetics (the two classes that logic should be taught in) teacher,
and I'm not even employed right now (and maybe the reason why I'm not employed right now, even though I'm looking really hard to find a job, as Steve Miller wrote back in the 1970's), maybe just maybe this is the reason why I can't find a job, because I don't know how to speak
or write without completing sentences! But this inability to do so, both with our politicians, government leaders
and others, shows me how obvious it is that there is a lack of good English classes these days
or how literally stupid it is for schools in the latter day (at least since the beginning of this decade) to be
teaching to the tests (because it's apparent to me this is the dumbing down of our nation, at it's worst).
