Incumbent Congressman Count Chris Chocola (R-IN) continues to trail the man he beat by 9% in 2004, Joe Donnelly (D), here in Indiana’s 2nd district — but Donnelly’s margin is slipping, and indeed, the race is technically a statistical dead heat now. It’s Donnelly 50%, Chocola 45% with 5% undecided and a 5% margin of error, according to the latest poll.
Chocola and Donnelly will debate Saturday at 8pm on WSBT. Barring a change of heart, I plan on following Butter’s lead and voting for Donnelly… and crossing my fingers that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t do anything overly damaging to the country if the Dems take back the majority. The Republicans certainly deserve to be fired, but do the Democrats deserve to be hired? Is the devil I don’t know better or worse, in this case, than the one I do? These are the questions I’m pondering, because for me, all politics is national.
The tiebreaker may be that I like candidates named Joe. :)
P.S. Thinking ahead to the election (19 days left) and the prediction contest I’m planning to run (details to follow, but I’m thinking we’ll do two separate contests, one for the Senate and one for the House, with the goal being to predict the Democrats’ net gain/loss in each chamber, and the tiebreakers being the Lieberman-Lamont margin in the Senate contest, the Chocola-Donnelly margin in the House contest), I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: create a Bloypedia page for all the BrendanLoy.com contests I’ve done over the years. If I’m forgetting any, please let me know.
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Categories: Election 2006, South Bend, Michiana & Indiana
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October 19th, 2006 at 9:17:32 am
But I understand R. Larry Frankenberry (R-Iowa) is doing well.
October 19th, 2006 at 12:45:57 pm
I used to carpool to grade school with Joe Donnelly, so hes got my vote. Its that easy for me.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:21:16 pm
I can’t risk a vote for a dem as long as guys like Howard Dean are around. It’s safer to vote for Chocola. At least you know what you are getting.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:27:58 pm
At least you know what you are getting.
Yeah, and it sucks.
I understand where you’re coming from. But me, I’m sufficiently fed up with Bush & the GOP that I think I can risk it. It would be different if we were voting for president; the Dems will have to come up with a far more credible candidate in this age of grave threats from Iran, North Korea, Al Qaeda, etc., if they want my vote (again) for president. As it is, I regret voting for Kerry. (Not that I would have supported Bush. Both options sucked. I should have gone third-party.) But I think I can vote to give the Dems the House without fearing that the country will immediately go to hell in a handbasket. After all, it’s really the executive who sets military policy. Not like Bush is doing a good job with that, but my point is, it’s not like we’re electing Nancy Pelosi (or Howard Dean) president.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:24:34 pm
Gosh Brendan, don’t Democrats have the solution for everything. I mean they know exactly what to do with Iraq.
Geesh!!!
October 19th, 2006 at 2:34:12 pm
yeah……..because giving Democrats the House would solve all of our problems.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:03:42 pm
Maybe Americans just want a counter-balance to King George.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:06:28 pm
I wasn’t aware we had a King…only a President
October 19th, 2006 at 4:25:46 pm
I guess its hard for me to imagine how the Democrats could possible do worse, and on top of that you aren’t even giving them full power like the GOP has now. Instead it would be restoring balance…(insert lame Star Wars joke here).
October 19th, 2006 at 5:57:11 pm
Brendan,
That is the most aggressive ive seen you push for a progressive idea in quite a while, if ever. I was pleasantly surprised to read it, plus i wouldn’t be surprised to see some democratic challengers to Pelosi if the dems win the house. And who knows, maybe they’ll actually get some good things done.
You also mentioned you need a more credible candidate from the dems to vote for them in a presidential campaign. At this early stage, who do you think on either side has the foreign policy bona fides to qualify as competent in your book? Not asking you would vote for or who you want to win, but the people that would qualify or meet your threshold for credibility.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:35:48 pm
So maybe this is the five year old in my rearing her peculiar head, but whenever I see a Chocola sign, I think of Count Chocula and I start craving some of that nutritionally-bereft-yet-undeniably-tasty cereal. Mmmm.
October 20th, 2006 at 1:33:58 am
Many people do refer to him as the count, Beckles.
October 20th, 2006 at 11:04:34 am
What about the drink, Choc-ola?
October 24th, 2006 at 3:01:35 pm
it does not matter who we elect in as long as we are committed to electing one of the two parties in. If you want real change, you have to vote for real change. Running back and forth from dem to repub makes you look more like a sheep that keep alternating and running away from each the party in power currently. Vote change… Donnely and company along with Pelosi are not agents for change.
ps. my wife is voting for Chocola because he is the best of both worlds- cola and chocolate. I guess we got her at the wrong/right time of the month :}