The Kean's are very old-money, old-line blue bloods.  Rotten through and through.

Almost like, well, almost like the Bushes.

I noticed this on Wikipedia tonight, that the so-called old IP address has apparently been busy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kean _Jr. "The same IP address was used to make edits to Wikipedia pages related to the election, often intended to enhance Kean's position."

Not a major issue or one that will have legs but Kean does come across as an oft-practiced liar. Great stuff when the newsman provided the IP address clincher at the very end.

The New Jersey polling tilted toward the GOP is a legit issue and let's hope it holds up again. Still, one thing irks me about this race, the ongoing silly insistence that voters are still confusing Jr. with dad and once they figure out otherwise Menendez will zoom in the polls. Talk about wishful rationalization, similar to our hidden cell phone users from 2004.

There were televised debates in that campaign beginning in late June. I checked out the media coverage at the time and Kean's picture was plastered all over the major papers and clips of the debate played on the local TV stations. Those early debates were heated and generated plenty of followup coverage.

Then I checked the New Jersey media during and shortly after the government shutdown and Kean Jr. was frequently asked to comment. Now you've got the Bluejersey issue, covered by the NYT, and Kean Jr. on TV denying everything. When, exactly, are we expecting the public to magically brainstorm the true identity? Kean's dad hasn't been governor since 1990. Think of the governor from your state in 1990 and pretend the public would believe he was suddenly running for high office again, and that false impression would linger for months, through the primaries, televised debates and all summer. Sure.

It's a close race because it always figured to be tight. Even when the polls after the early debates had Menendez significantly ahead, the odds on the race were always very close to even. I remember posting on DU after the odds on Kean moved 15 points in his favor on Tradesports in one day, back to 50/50. Tradesports has seen a ton of support for Kean Jr. all year. In fact, he's a slight favorite now, in the area of 54-46.

One by one, the few Republicans whom I'd hoped were still principled, sane and competent are proving to be anything but. So goes the Kean family the way of Colin Powell, Christie Todd Whitman, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Rudolph Giuliani. It is simply not possible to be a successful and powerful Republican these days and be all these things. At this rate, they'll either destroy the country, or themselves, before long.

What's scary is that the Jr. on TV lying his a** off is a lot more convincing than he was earlier in the campaign.  Maybe lying his is natural response.

OK - normally, I'm pretty tech savy...

But it seems whenever a post here includes a YouTube vid, I get about pages worth of empty white space between the opening text post and the end of the post/comments page.

Same occurs whether I'm using MSIE or Mozilla.

Now -- I haven't updated certain plug-ins (Flash, for example... I find myself much less annoyed with Flash ads on other sites because of this).

Anyone else had the same issue?  I'm figuring this is either an un-updated plugin, but hoping perhaps it's a setting issue I can resolve.

This is the problem with reporters vs. journalists.  This guy is all fluff and nutter with his "However, emails sent out on behalf of the campaign also happened to have that same IP address...and now for the weather, Jo-Jo seems like we're in for a wet one!"

I mean, cripes.  Here he has a chance to be Kronkite and call it like it is.  

"Kean's statement, however, does not appear to be the truth.  Recently reporters at this station have received emails from the campaign that have arisen from the same IP address.  The issue here is not whether a Kean staffer posed as a disgrunted Democrat, but whether Tom Kean can be trusted to tell the truth when faced with an indelicate situation.  In this case, it appears not."

I haven't really been paying much attention to this race, so watching this video was my first look at Tom Kean...and boy, is he a junior! Amateur is what comes to mind from the start.

Check out the video of Kean talking at the podium. Right behind him is a woman holding this sign up (and Kean supporters desperately trying to obscure it with their own signs).

And it just got broadcast all over New Jersey!