Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS!!
Tomorrow, it will all come to an end. You've heard, seen, and read many sides from this year's mid-term election, and tomorrow, the final chapter will be waiting for us at the polls.
The Republicans have been in trouble these last few years with corruptions and scandals galore, and tomorrow could be a big day for the Democrats to turn all that around; they've been planning this since 2004, when we (unfortunately) re-elected President Bush. But the GOP may have something up their sleeves even at the eleventh hour. Could the Iraqi judge's recent verdict of Saddam Hussein given death by hanging be it?
All 435 House seats and 33 Senate seats will be up for grabs, while 36 gubernatorial races and thousands upon thousands of local and state races and ballot measures/propositions will be decided as well. For the Democrats, six Senate seats and 15 House seats are all they need to reclaim Capitol Hill from the Republicans.
Here in Alaska, we've got a three-way battle for the state's top job between Tony Knowles, Sarah Palin, and Andrew Halcro. No matter what the outcome is, there's history riding on this one. Knowles wants to be the first three-term governor since William Egan (who served from 1959-66 and again from 1970-74), while Palin and Halcro -- both at the age of 42 -- want to be the youngest; for Palin, she wants to be the state's first female governor, something Knowles' former lieutenant governor Fran Ulmer tried in 2002 but Frank Murkowski prevented that from happening.
We've also got one fierce House battle between Don Young and Diane Benson. Will 33 years of Young be enough as Benson hopes to pull off the upset of the night? This is definitely one hot race all of America will be eyeing on.
In my old stomping grounds on the Mississippi Coast, this will be their first general election (and New Orleans') since Hurricane Katrina. I'll be keeping watch on that to see whether or not Trent Lott will still have a job in Washington; several other local and state races there are at stake.
Locally in Fairbanks (for those who care, since this blog is being accessed around the world), we've got a State Senate showdown between Republican incumbent Ralph Seekins and Democrat Joe Thomas. After vising a website that breaks down what Seekins really did during his time in Juneau, I think he's better off selling cars. Nothing against him (though I actually live a couple miles close to him, and we're both at the same neighborhood), but I feel there's a wind of change blowing.
And then, there's two ballot measures; one is to reduce the legislative sessions from 120 days to 90; another is the gas pipeline tax. Will it be yes or no on either of them?
So...with everything going on, this is going to turn out to be one intense night. And yes...I'll be blogging here throughout the night, offering you my instant thoughts on the returns as they trickle in. If you have Yahoo! and/or AIM, you could chat with me live on the elections; my screenname on both is johnnya2k.
Will the Democrats be bringing the truth and ethics back to Capitol Hill (I was thinking of other ways to use the term "bringing the sexy back"), or will the Republicans continue their corruptive ways? Will Knowles, Halcro, or Palin make things work in Juneau? And after over three decades, will Diane Benson really be standing up for Alaska? Tomorrow, when we head to the polls and fill in those circles on our Accu-Vote ballots (well, that's here in Alaska; many states have different voting machines ranging from optical scan all the way to those old, bulky, they-should've-been-in-a-museum-years-ago lever machines), these questions and thousands more will be answered. And me, I'll be waiting till 8:00 pm (when our polls close; that's midnight on the East Coast or 5:00 am if you're in London) to see whether or not we made Alaska's and America's choices. See you back here tomorrow night.
Tomorrow, it will all come to an end. You've heard, seen, and read many sides from this year's mid-term election, and tomorrow, the final chapter will be waiting for us at the polls.
The Republicans have been in trouble these last few years with corruptions and scandals galore, and tomorrow could be a big day for the Democrats to turn all that around; they've been planning this since 2004, when we (unfortunately) re-elected President Bush. But the GOP may have something up their sleeves even at the eleventh hour. Could the Iraqi judge's recent verdict of Saddam Hussein given death by hanging be it?
All 435 House seats and 33 Senate seats will be up for grabs, while 36 gubernatorial races and thousands upon thousands of local and state races and ballot measures/propositions will be decided as well. For the Democrats, six Senate seats and 15 House seats are all they need to reclaim Capitol Hill from the Republicans.
Here in Alaska, we've got a three-way battle for the state's top job between Tony Knowles, Sarah Palin, and Andrew Halcro. No matter what the outcome is, there's history riding on this one. Knowles wants to be the first three-term governor since William Egan (who served from 1959-66 and again from 1970-74), while Palin and Halcro -- both at the age of 42 -- want to be the youngest; for Palin, she wants to be the state's first female governor, something Knowles' former lieutenant governor Fran Ulmer tried in 2002 but Frank Murkowski prevented that from happening.
We've also got one fierce House battle between Don Young and Diane Benson. Will 33 years of Young be enough as Benson hopes to pull off the upset of the night? This is definitely one hot race all of America will be eyeing on.
In my old stomping grounds on the Mississippi Coast, this will be their first general election (and New Orleans') since Hurricane Katrina. I'll be keeping watch on that to see whether or not Trent Lott will still have a job in Washington; several other local and state races there are at stake.
Locally in Fairbanks (for those who care, since this blog is being accessed around the world), we've got a State Senate showdown between Republican incumbent Ralph Seekins and Democrat Joe Thomas. After vising a website that breaks down what Seekins really did during his time in Juneau, I think he's better off selling cars. Nothing against him (though I actually live a couple miles close to him, and we're both at the same neighborhood), but I feel there's a wind of change blowing.
And then, there's two ballot measures; one is to reduce the legislative sessions from 120 days to 90; another is the gas pipeline tax. Will it be yes or no on either of them?
So...with everything going on, this is going to turn out to be one intense night. And yes...I'll be blogging here throughout the night, offering you my instant thoughts on the returns as they trickle in. If you have Yahoo! and/or AIM, you could chat with me live on the elections; my screenname on both is johnnya2k.
Will the Democrats be bringing the truth and ethics back to Capitol Hill (I was thinking of other ways to use the term "bringing the sexy back"), or will the Republicans continue their corruptive ways? Will Knowles, Halcro, or Palin make things work in Juneau? And after over three decades, will Diane Benson really be standing up for Alaska? Tomorrow, when we head to the polls and fill in those circles on our Accu-Vote ballots (well, that's here in Alaska; many states have different voting machines ranging from optical scan all the way to those old, bulky, they-should've-been-in-a-museum-years-ago lever machines), these questions and thousands more will be answered. And me, I'll be waiting till 8:00 pm (when our polls close; that's midnight on the East Coast or 5:00 am if you're in London) to see whether or not we made Alaska's and America's choices. See you back here tomorrow night.
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