Yes, Trauner is one of those infamously rude New Yorkers. You know, the kind of person who would threaten to slap a man in a wheelchair. Oops, that was Cubin.

I did like the retro music, though.

Unfortunately, in my home state, that may be all the edge you need. Too bad, getting rid of Cubin would be sweet!

Just FYI -- there's a mistake in the poll list below. The AK race is for Gov, not Sen.

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And since I'm here, I think that ad comes off as ridiculous, especially since so many Wyomians will have met Trauner at their front door.

We New Yorkers are known to be mean but we don't beat up people in wheelchairs.

Best, Terry

The background to this is that this was Cubin's only campaign issue in the last election as well. In the 2004 primary she attacked one of her opponents as an out of stater, even though he had filed to be independent from his parents as a teenager so he could move to Wyoming. She bled support over it then, underperforming in the general election against a nearly invisible challenger. Don't know why she thinks it works for her, but when it is all you've got I guess you try it. Everyone i know mocks her for it.

Yes, Borat works exactly b/c people like Barbara Cubin still exist in the U.S. and are still elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Of COURSE it's anti-semitic you people! The NRCC paid for the ad, not the local congressperson. Perhaps people from Wyoming wouldn't attempt this or think of taking a swipe at a "New York Jew" but there's plenty of slime ball Republicans working for the NRCC who would. This is so clear it is beyond debate in my opinion. I hope that it doesn't work or backfires, but clearly by bringing up the fact that the man is a New Yorker instantly leads to the question of his ethnicity as it did on this website and as it would anywhere and certainly in newsrooms. Now, the pigs at NRCC don't have to do anything else because newspaper articles and tv news spots will do pieces throughout the weekend asking the question "Is this ad anti-Semitic or not?" Thus, the creeps don't have to do any of the real dirty work, don't have to themselves point out to all those paranoid Christianist Fundamentalist wackos in Wyoming that "he's not one of us". The free media will do it all for them. I'm amazed this isn't apparent to all including the person from the campaign who obviously doesn't understand how these things work. I applaud the decency of those who have given the benefit of the doubt for whatever reason to the forces of evil on this, I just disagree for the reasons stated.

It makes sense. The Republicans have their push-button issues like race, homosexuality and good old-fashioned fear. It's the party of division. Whenever they need to "turn out the vote" they tap into the latent and not-so-latent racism that exists in this country.

How many New Yorkers do you know that would wear an "I Love New York" t-shirt? He looks like a Wyomian to me.