Seats that are in no danger of going Republican

[jducoeur]

Thanks for the Votemaster for the pointer to this minor but amusing political side-note. Apparently, Rep. Peter Welch of VT is popular enough that the Republicans didn't bother to officially nominate anyone against him. A band of Democrats got together to write him in for the Republican ballot in the primary, and actual Republican turnout was so low that he won that, as well as the Democratic nomination. So he'll be running against himself in November...

Comments

[corwyn-ap.livejournal.com]

Vermont is a very strange place.

[runolfr.livejournal.com]

In other news, Bob Barr (the Libertarian nominee) is filing suit to have Obama and McCain taken off the Texas ballot because they weren't officially nominated 70 days before election day.

rules pedantry

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

Does that actually qualify as running against himself? I've certainly voted in places where a candidate was listed on more than one line, and got the votes from all of them.