One Week Until the Election

I've been out of town for a while and have not done particularly well on updating the blog of late. This past week, I was in St. Louis for a convention. Interestingly enough, the World Series was in town. I hope to blog about that experience later in the week.

But now that we're down to a mere seven days until the mid-term election, I thought I better get back to a couple of issues that I've been promoting. The first is the idea of getting Senator George F. Allen out of office. Seriously, this guy is an embarrassment to the Commonwealth of Virginia. He's been making regular appearances on Democratic Underground's weekly list of the Top 10 Conservative Idiots and he shows up again this week, this time at No. 3.

In a related story, see this satirical article that pokes fun of the absurd claim made by the Allen campaign that his opponent, Jim Webb, is unfit to be senator because of "sexually explicit" material in Webb's books.

This race is going to be close. Allen has been leading Webb since the beginning, with a wide double-digit margin just a few months ago. This new poll, however, is the first to show Webb actually leading Allen. George Allen has been nothing but a Bush puppet for six years. If you are concerned about the War in Iraq, the shrinking middle class, and myriad other issues, it's time to look for a new direction, which means getting rid of the Bush yes men such as George Allen.

In another important initiative in this election, Virginia voters have the opportunity to vote on a so-called "marriage amendment." An interesting look at the amendment can be found in this column from The Washington Post. And a nice letter to the editor about the topic appears today in the Fredericksburg newspaper.