With U.S. Senator Cantwell agreeing to just two debates with Republican challenger Mike McGavick, the campaign remains stuck on generalities.
Cantwell has an imperfect record on the Iraq war and a vague strategy to end it. McGavick’s views are more conservative than those of most of the state’s voters and he needs to tack even further to the right in order to turn out Republicans.
That’s why McGavick is still talking about personality, barely a month before the election. In this profile in Washington CEO magazine, McGavick explains that he led the insurance industry’s trade group in Washington, D.C. but wasn’t actually a lobbyist. It’s a sleight of hand similar to his August confessional about a DUI arrest, which turned out to be incomplete. Will voters notice?
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I’m sure they will carefully collude to avoid any actual discussion during debates. I would think the debate sponsors would spring at the chance for a little spice by letting Guthrie in since he’s gone to the effort of meeting the requirements.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003287969_guthrie04.html
We’ll see. If Guthrie is ready to challenge both sides and actually lay out some specifics that would inject some real policy discussion into the race it might be worth $1.2 million.