Mannix is a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black.

..and the dems didn't need to supply any extra mustard.

This is better than a WWE elimination chamber match.

I just heard on the radio that someone got 12,000 write-ins on the R ballot for AG & they're saying it's Mannix. Sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere on BO today, my first time on since this morning.

I think Oregonians have a particular dislike for scorched-earth campaigns. I would imagine that, in that situation, I would have reluctantly voted for Erickson. I just couldn't reward those kinds of tactics and encourage their future use. (Even if it was true, Mannix went about it in the sleaziest way possible.) And the reason Mannix pulled this in the first place was because he was behind, so presumably there are folks in OR-5 who just didn't like him to begin with. Also, I would think Mannix's sleaziness factor would have made him a sure loser in the general. At least with Erickson, there's the hope (still doing the hypothetical Republican voter thing) that the allegations weren't true.

Now Mannix is 0-5 in elections since 2000. I wonder which office he'll run for -- and lose -- next.

In his my-way-or-the-highway approach, it seems that Mannix may be taking some hints from the nastier elements in the Clinton/Obama blogosphere.

gotta love you some (R)s. Makes you want to vote in their races doesn't it?

Yeah, Mannix ran for AG before and was trounced. So maybe he should give it another shot. And when he loses he can claim that Oregon is like Zimbabwe and he was cheated because of sexism.

Bill, Your candidate won in Oregon so what's with all the nastiness?

Correction, the write-in was for Saxton. Even scarier if you ask me...

Katy, your numbers are a little off. The total number of write-in votes was just over 12,000, not 12,000 for one person. Also, earlier in the month, Saxton said he would not be the nominee if they wrote him in. They will have somebody, but it will take some time to know who it is (word on the street is Ron Paul is the leader, thus far).

I understand the numbers, I should have said there were 12,000 write-ins and it is my understanding that the Republicans launched a write-in campaign for Saxton despite the fact that he said he was not interested. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if he accepts? I was told yesterday it will take 20 days for the write-ins to be counted.

Mannix frightens me but I was rooting for him in this race. I know Erickson and have no doubt he paid for and dropped the girl off at a clinic, no questions asked because in his world, don't ask, don't tell is more than a good policy, it's a way of life. Unless you get caught and then you lie, lie, lie.

Mannix is a sleaze. No doubt about it. But I don't know him to be a liar and he also knows local issues. Erickson doesn't.

It's easy to say "let's close the borders." It's easy to say "I won't vote for taxes." Does Erickson have a clue what that entails? Does he know what the local issues are? I guarantee he doesn't.

I have 2 theories on why Erickson won. 1. By the time voters knew of Erickson's inconvenient baby (kudos to Indymedia), it was too late to change their vote. 2. They hate Mannix but thought he might actually have a chance at beating Schrader given his experience and so Erickson seemed a smart choice in that he would be too critically wounded by his own sins.

Regardless, I'm too busy laughing that Erickson actually claims to have run a clean campaign (I suppose he thinks he ran a clean campaign against Hooley too?) and the last media report I read, he didn't know what the last name of the girl whose abortion he paid for and took to Mexico. Maybe those wild houseboat parties ate a chunk of his brain.

Mannix is probly not endorsing Mike Erickson because he WANTS a democrat to get in, i mean we all know that mannix use to be a democrat, so why wouldn't he pull such an act?