My friend Todd Epp had an observation yesterday on the KELO Radio website about Jay WIlliams that I can’t argue with one bit:
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jay Williams is a tomato can.
He’s far from an actual tomato can (he’s a successful business person, a former Naval aviator, and a Vietnam War veteran) but he will do as well as a tomato can in next week’s election against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune.
That’s because anyone the Democrats put up for statewide office in the post-Tom Daschle/Tim Johnson era is going to do as well as the proverbial tomato can.
and..
Until the state Democratic Party figures out that it can’t continue to see Republican and Independent voter registrations surge while Democratic registrations stagnate; that until it can’t continue to be ruled by rural interests; that it can’t ignore the new “cube farm” economy; that it can’t ignore Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties; and until it stops the revolving door of party leaders, Democratic tomato cans will be all we’ll see on election days to come.
(I think Troy Jones calls that the dead dog bounce, or something like that.)
the republicans in this state make great gains by the consistency of their hold on the center and center-right in the states electorate. they eschew the center-left and the far right just about every time they can. democrats won’t matter until they fight back toward the center, and they WON’T DO IT even when asked to by harry reid. they are their own worst enemy.