Hell to Pay: Nominations

I'm going to make no secret about who I think should be nominated this week for tomorrow night's Hell to Pay fundraiser: Dan Seals, IL-10. Aside from being a worthy candidate on his own merits--and being a repeat nominee for Hell to Pay help--this week it got personal. Very, very personal. As in an attack by his scummy rival not only on Seals, but on Daily Kos itself. It all began October 5 when the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll showed our Orange to Blue candidate Seals trailing Republican incumbent Republican Mark Kirk by a mere six points. And thus an absurd freak-out by the Kirk campaign began, with Kirk's pollster going nuts, claiming that the "ultra left-wing Web site Daily Kos" had undersampled Jewish voters (of course, a well-known Republican voting bloc) intentionally: It is no surprise that DailyKos, which has come... [read full story]