| There's been a bit of speculation the last couple of days that Kande Ngalamulume, who was the Democratic candidate in the 8th District until after the filing deadline and then inexplicably dropped out, blaming Democratic and progressive leadership for failing to rally behind him, was in reality a Republican plant. That rumor mongering is based on Ngalamulume's refusal to do anything to aid the Democrats to put a real person on the ballot rather than the name of someone who'd left the state. (On the other hand, why bother spending resources to kill competition in a district you knew going in that you'd win big?) A good point was raised last night, however, by Brainwrap at the Great Orange Satan, that the Detroit papers both failed to mention the state of the race in their coverage from this previous week. Write-ins obviously, are longshot campaigns, but this one a) involves a Congressional seat and b) a candidate on the ballot but who dropped out. That means there is a credible chance for the write-in to win, especially since there are indications that the race could blow up big in the progressive blogosphere, and if nothing else it's an interesting and compelling story during an election year (dwarfed, yes, by the GOP primary in the 11th Senate race, but still interesting). |
