Live discussion with Alabama Congressional candidate Josh Segall.

Results of the Blue America Senate Contest

Interview with Blue America congressional candidate Darcy Burner

Last Saturday, Howie began a Senate contest between our five great Blue America Senate candidates.  Howie updated on our Senate contest yesterday:

This week we started a week-long contest to pick a Senate candidate to give the same $5,000 check too. A donation of $1-- or $1,000-- counts as a vote and you can vote here.

Today we begin a week long competition between the five candidates for the U.S. Senate endorsed by Blue America, Tom Allen (D-ME), Mark Begich (D-AK), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Rick Noriega (D-TX) and Andrew Rice (D-OK). None of these are the "easy" races that the big money is flowing to. These are the tough ones, although each one is winnable. Join us!

In 2006 Scott Kleeb ran against far right Republican closet queen Adrian Smith in the largest -- like 75% of the state -- and most Republican (R+24!!!) district in Nebraska. In a district that gave Bush 75% of its vote in 2004 (while rewarding the GOP congressional incumbent with 87%), Scott managed to astound political observers with 45% of the vote. People in the ultra conservative 3rd district liked him and saw him as one of them-- but a representative of the very best in them....

Update: contest winner is Annette Taddeo, $10,000 prize.

Pollsters and pundits are feverishly trying to discern whether McCain's choice of VP helps his campaign get in gear after a sluggish summer. The bigger story, IMHO, is not its effect on the presidential race, but the downticket races for US House seats and state governorships.

Candidates in small market congressional districts can get a lot of advertising for $5000. Blue America has a contest going, where donors get to pick not only where their own donations go, but which of nine BA candidates should receive an extra $5K.

Choose your favorite Blue America candidate.