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Remember Alek Skarlatos?

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He’s running for Congress. This should jog your memory. Good guy, good ad:

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Remember Alek Skarlatos? — 17 Comments

  5. Unfortunately, Alex Skarlatos lacks the wisdom and experience of AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). Just another pretty face.

    Skarlatos is running to represent Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, which is dominated by the university towns of Corvallis and Eugene. Historically, Oregon’s university students lean left (Corvallis) and far left (Eugene), and the district’s last Republican representative left office in 1975. I’m sure they’re ready for a change, but nobody from Antifa is running.

  6. Will the university students at OSU and O of U be there to vote in November with the China contagion and all that? Can you vote in a University town election even if you are attending as a “zoomer or zoomie?” Or do you have to vote from your folk’s basement?

  7. Cornflour:

    See this:

    Oregon State University associate professor of political science Christopher Stout said that this election will be more competitive than normal. Skarlatos’ name recognition may have prompted increased donation levels, but 73-year-old DeFazio will be hard to beat.

    “It’s a district where Hillary Clinton barely won in 2016, so in this way, Skarlatos is running in a district where he at least has a chance, but going against an incumbent is an uphill battle,” said Stout.

    According to the campaign finance data, as of June 20, Skarlatos had fundraised $1.3 million for his campaign, 90% of which he said came from small-dollar voters. By the same date, DeFazio had raised $1.7 million.

  9. This is a great ad: personable, silly, light hearted, but makes a very simple point. I might just donate to Alek.

    I did not know DeFazio lived on a yacht, but that fits. He is the epitome of a careerist liberal hack; staying under the radar just enough to keep his office perpetually, while doing little for his district, but giving the Democrat leadership his loyal votes every time.

    I will add, contra Cornflour, Oregon’s 4th CD is not absurdly left-wing (that’s the 3d CD) and it includes much territory beyond liberal Eugene (including rural areas where Antifa would certainly not receive a warm welcome). It went for Bush in 2000, barely for Kerry in 2004 and barely for Hillary in 2016 (of course the lines changed a bit). DeFazio has won only in the 50s, percentage wise, in the last several elections. So, while Alek has a bit of an uphill battle, it is potentially surmountable.

  10. This reminds me. As God is my witness, I never intended to be reading a back issue of Robin Givhan’s style section in the WaPo. But…there I was.
    She was going on about the iconic picture of the three Americans getting France’s highest award while dressed in Polos and Dockers. Apparently, the embassy hadn’t the time to fit them out in suits. But Givhan, after doing her style thing–she gets paid for that–made an observation: These outfits were perfectly appropriate. For Americans. Polos and Dockers are what young guys wear when they know they’re supposed to get dressed up, but they don’t know what the fuss is about.
    We’re Americans. It’s what we do.
    Froma Harrop had a lengthier piece on the same subject.

    Four random Americans–including Margoolian–took down a maniac with a machine gun in what could be called a meat-filled kill sack. Of four random Americans, two were soldiers.

    I like to think of these guys and so many like them in these times.

    I certainly hope he wins.

  11. Om, that’s an interesting question nationwide. Will university students, who are NOT in their dorms, but at home, vote once at home and once at school this time? Democrats ought to be worried about this.

  12. If I were the dude on the yacht…I’d be making a trip to the home district…
    And I pray it won’t help his re-election chances.

    This Skarlatos looks like a winner.
    About time.

  13. Just sent money. He has a shot. This is going to be one of those earth shaking elections, one way or the other. We NEED to win the Congress, not just the presidency.

  16. Skarlatos plays up the the old Walking Tall image as well, walking around with the piece of lumber over his shoulder.

    It was a clever ad and I get the impression it was made by someone who knew what they were doing. I hope he wins.

  17. All of the Trump & assorted Republican ads I’ve seen have been excellent (some are even Klacik) with much better messaging and higher production values than the GOP is accustomed to.

    Two suggestions – not mutually exclusive at all.
    (1) Mr. Trump has LOTS of experience and contacts in the ad & entertainment biz; he may be sharing the wealth around in ways that the RINOs of the past are not used to.
    (2) Hollywood is as closed down as the rest of the economy; lots of production people are twiddling their thumbs waiting for work to open up again; some of them — possibly even more than the suspected-right-wing “talents'”– are conservatives.
    Even if they get “outed” for working for the hatey-hate-hating GOP candidates, you can’t blacklist somebody from non-existent jobs.

    Also, there may be an underground going now that will provide work even if they are.

    The times, they are a’changin’.

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