Well I believe D.F. is a big loser after the 4th. Since Aguirre was ousted, Donna will have no one to be a lap dog to. Watch for her to try and find someone elses coattails to hang on to.

Posted by Ron Weiss | reply to this comment
November 8, 2008 8:00 am

Journalists are not very good historians. And, unfortunately, historians these days are behaving like journalists. We need to take a longer view, even of local politics. The GOP did face a tsunami and it wasn't resurgent liberalism. It was an amazing (but deserved) collapse of the credit/debt world, a collapse that is still unfolding. Typically, the last ones to understand the economic environment are those most insulated from it--government. Well, the insulation no longer protects them from the growing heat of the dire economic situation. As the nasty effects reveal themselves in the coming months (years), the incumbents will inherit the political discontents. So, if patient, the GOP will again find their day in the sun, just as the Dems have today. Sadly, given their past track record, I'm not optimistic about either party's ability to deal effectively with our problems.

Posted by josil | reply to this comment
November 8, 2008 12:02 pm

I would hope that the SD Republican Party leaders simply don't lick their wounds by claiming the Obama wind storm knocked the house down. I was a young Republican type at age 16 working phone banks. 30+ years later I see an organization that has abandoned sound fiscal principles. I see a group locally that accepted, condoned, and particpated in financial buffoonery. I see national party leaders that engaged in favoritism for well connected business/lobby interests. Both locally and nationally Republican have become SPEND and REWARD Republicans. Many Republicans just don't care about the moral crusades that the party leaders seem to think are paramount. The fact is the most financially honest and predictable politician in SD, over the last five years, is Donna Frye. In the last sixty days, I received 44 mail pieces supporting Republican candidates. Didn't work!

Posted by Dale Peterson | reply to this comment
November 8, 2008 3:25 pm

Dear Lincoln Club: it was all the Obama tsunami. The Tigers performed brilliantly; the flyers they prepared were absolute masterpieces of the genre. You should not only plan to use them in the future, but you should make sure that in the near term the Coronado Group has enough business so that it is sufficiently capitalized to provide expert advice for at least the next 2 election cycles. I for one am very concerned that the powers that be in Republican party will misinterpret the Boling/Thalheimer losses and some competing, less experienced and less talented political consultants will move into the community. I think the party should move aggressively to maintain the nearly exclusive franchise Coronado Group had this cycle.

Posted by jorgeelgato | reply to this comment
November 9, 2008 10:37 am

I received three or four McCann mailers in one day, on more than one occasion. We received at least one per day for four weeks; most often two per day. That waste turned me off almost as much as the posing with his military uniform and telling me that all laywers are evil, ergo Marty Block is evil (I work for lawyers as an office worker and found this offensive). Hope all Rove-like pols (of all stripes) crash and burn after this election, and we can have respect and statemanship across party lines. Perhaps even the Christian conservatives will start asking themselves HWJR? (How Would Jesus Run?)

Posted by Korinne | reply to this comment
November 10, 2008 9:04 am

The local GOP didn't have a chance after the Bush Recession began to sit in, and voters became aware of the finiancial mess the city's in. The voters blame our problems on the downtown GOP developers and old boys network, and the the GOP candidates in the 1st and 7th districts suffered because of it. It will be interesting to see if Carl DiMaio, San Diego's version of Grover Norquist, will help or hurt the GOP brand next year.

Posted by Watcher | reply to this comment
November 10, 2008 3:10 pm

Bush Recession? You Mean Lamestream Media Democrat commie recession. Obama Cheated, Sheeple Bleated.

Posted by Bill | reply to this comment
November 19, 2008 3:52 pm

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