June 24th Election Results

You're scarin' me a little, man...

He's an idiot.

Heeeeeeee's back.

In the Mississippi senate GOP primary the terrible defeated the horrible.

Thad Cochran, the creaky establishment conservative beat back the tea party challenge of the fire-breathing younger arch-conservative Chris McDaniel.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/24/politics/primary-wrap/?c=&page=1

And in New York it appears that Charlie Rangel has prevailed over his challenger Adriano Espaillat. I thought he would be able to survive the ethics scandals, the house censure, and failing to gain the endorsement of Bill Blasio or Pres. Obama.

But I thought that beach chair photo of him would sink his campaign.

What a fighter. Well done, sir..

William Haskins said:

informal vote: funniest name of the night?

- (colorado gov) john hickenlooper

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Not sure if he's related, but Nebraska famously had a Senator Hickenlooper for several terms back in the 1950s and 1960s. He served alongside Roman Hruska.

kaw

blacbird said:

He served alongside Roman Hruska.

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A member of the influential Nebraska Corn Hruskas family.

Hruska is a Czech name. Talk about insensitive. I should call up my Hlvatay and Hruska cousins and kick your sorry zadek--s6

as will be your kzadek--s6

No sense of humor regarding the lack of vowels?

Czechs don't need vowels. We invented beer! --s6

shakeysix said:

Czechs don't need vowels. We invented beer! --s6

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Now I know why my vowels tend to disappear when I indulge! Mercy. The things I learn here...

Just for historical grins, several years ago there was a tight congressional or senate race in either Michigan or Ohio in which one of the major contenders was named "Posthumus".

He lost.

About the same time we here had a local city council election between Steven Strait and Becky Gay. It came down to a recount, and Strait won by three votes. This made a trivial amount of national news humor at the time.

kaw

blacbird said:

Just for historical grins, several years ago there was a tight congressional or senate race in either Michigan or Ohio in which one of the major contenders was named "Posthumus".

He lost.

About the same time we here had a local city council election between Steven Strait and Becky Gay. It came down to a recount, and Strait won by three votes. This made a trivial amount of national news humor at the time.

kaw

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I think that was originally zdkaw.

blacbird said:

Just for historical grins, several years ago there was a tight congressional or senate race in either Michigan or Ohio in which one of the major contenders was named "Posthumus".

He lost.

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It was Michigan and he lost because rather than going out to vote, all the Republicans stayed at home sitting on their kzadek.

blacbird said:

kaw

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Damned if that accent doesn't sound more Canadian than Alaskan.