Our friends at “The Fix” presented their list of the 10 Nastiest Senate Races of the past 30 years, and Colorado isn’t among them (although the 2006 Virginia Senate race between Sen. George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb does have a Colorado connection, since GOP Chair Dick Wadhams was Allen’s campaign manager).
Here’s the list. For full a explanation of why each race was so nasty, click the link above:
California — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) vs Michael Huffington (R) (1994)
Georgia — Sen. Max Cleland (D) vs Saxby Chambliss (R) (2002)
Minnesota — Sen. Norm Coleman (R) vs Al Franken (D) (2008)
Missouri — Sen. John Ashcroft (R) vs Mel Carhanan (D) (2000)
Nevada — Sen. Harry Reid (D) vs John Ensign (R) (1998)
New York — Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R) vs Chuck Schumer (D) (1998)
North Carolina — Sen. Jesse Helms (R) vs Jim Hunt (D) (1984)
North Carolina — Sen. Jesse Helms (R) vs Harvey Gantt (D) (1990)
Virginia — Sen. Chuck Robb (D) vs Oliver North (R) (1994)
Virginia — Sen. George Allen (R) vs Jim Webb (D) (2006)
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that did NOT make this list.
I can tell you that Karl Rove did not have anything on Jesse Helm’s political machine.
The Florida disenfranchisement of Black voters in 2000 seemed to be a carbon copy of North Carolina’s 1990 race where Harvey Gantt was poised to become the first black Senator since reconstruction.
Unfortunately, voting problems in largely black areas experienced irregularities and many were disenfranchised – allowing Helms to squeak by for his last term.
A Wade Norris comment that is both relative to the diary on which it is posted and not pertaining to Andrew Romanoff or Michael Bennet.
I’m impressed, Wade. Seriously impressed.
if you count all of my diaries from the first one since Gov. Ritter appointed Bennet,
you will see that my diaries related to the primary number at 32 diaries (several of which are about Bennet’s poor votes on environmental issues)
and 41 of my diaries are about other subjects – most environmental, some not.
Interesting to note:
That first diary
“Ritter’s appointment betrays Romanoff”
was written here
Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 20:41:51 PM MST
exactly 1 year before you started here:
Mon Jan 04, 2010 at 03:09:02 AM MST
thanks for being a fan.
Before we get the patented spigot on fire video for the umpteenth time, perhaps in response to the last message I left over in the diary on the Bennet commercial.
Some of us browsed Pols since before it was on Soapblox, even. But I’m proud of your elitism when it comes to blogs. Because everything we say and do here, you know, it doesn’t really matter.
You are perceived as a shill. And thanks for the factual analysis of your diaries since, but nobody here doesn’t perceive you, as, well, a shill.
You should know this. Perception is more important than reality in politics. John Edwards? Well, for a while, people perceived him as a loving family man.
I see two Democrat presidents battling on behalf of a candidate who will lose. That is very entertaining
Buck or Norton?
was a product of its times.
IMHO, the most heinous of those races was Chambliss v. Cleland. But that’s only my opinion.
In another time, Chambliss couldn’t have possibly won. But he did. And that tells you everything you need to know about the times.
Anne Coulter was the worst
I must have missed it.
The man lost multiple limbs in Vietnam
But he was running against Chambliss, which is why I called that the most heinous race.
There is nothing that Coulter says that is worth talking about. But when Cleland’s opponent bought into the bullshit, THAT became heinous.
n/t
and so black is white Orwellian, it’s hard, and inexpressibly disgusting, to believe that American voters in any state would actually buy it. But they did, just like American voters bought Bush and Cheney as big brave heroes. Pretty scary that its that easy for political operatives to turn reality inside out.
Funny, you don’t hear that much about Coulter anymore. Guess Palin took over her spot as the loony tune’s heart throb.
…in that one thread. I was totally lost trying to follow it.
just tired of BS
the editors will be in touch
Good luck on your fantasy conspiracy that The Romers and Sen Bennet sought to misappropriate funds from DPS not being labled libel.Or the whole Statesman debacle where now Romanoff claims he’s never called his opponent corrupt;he simply suggested that he sold Senate votes for $2400.00
Investigative reporting your attacks are not. Further, the level of conspiracy you’ve dreamed up would be criminal if there was any evidence to support your statements.
You don’t gather pertinent facts before you launch into libel.Or perhaps you practice Paul Simon’s “a man hears what he wants to hear and diregards the rest.”
Mark Kirk, Senate candidate in Illinois race defending his, er, wrongly misremembered military record.
It almost makes me miss the entertainment value of W’s malapropisms, but not really.