Kind of a mixed bag on 666, ex-judge Roy Moore took a pounding in the Alabama gubernatorial primary but not by as large a margin as it appeared he would. When last I looked the numbers were 64%-36% in favor of Governor Riley. That 36% of the Alabama electorate could vote for Moore is really scary. Even scarier is that a ban on Gay Marriage passed in the state by a 4-1 margin. I’d really like to have a conversation with people that vote for things like that and ask them what their concern is.
Elsewhere, Democrats narrowly missed taking away a House seat in a traditionally strong Republican district in California. I’m not sure what to make of that one. In New Jersey it looks like a horse race between acting Senator Robert Menendez and Tom Keane Jr. the son of the popular ex-governor of New Jersey Thomas Keane.
Tom Keane is republican by traditional and liberal by the grace of God. Calling himself a Republican is virtually meaningless so he has a reasonable shot at election. Keane would be a moderate voice in a Republican party that is increasingly extreme in its views. It’s Republicans like Keane that need to rally together and figure out how to take back the GOP from the radical right wing elements that have it captured.
Nevertheless, I’m still voting for Menendez unless something changes significantly between now and November.
Keane broke with conservatives of the Bergen County Republican Organization over Gay Marriage and Abortion pointing out that it is virtually impossible for a candidate who is anti-choice and anti-gay marriage to win a statewide election in New Jersey. Unfortunately, as shown by Representative Scott Garret, it is possible for an anti-choice, anti-gay marriage candidate to win a local election in Bergen County where I have the misfortune of living, and in Garret’s district no less. Oh the injustice of it all!
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