Greetings. This is my first visit to Daily Kos, and I look forward to spending the next hour with you to exchange some ideas and views. I know how the netroots pitched in for Jon Tester and Jim Webb last year, and I would like to win your support in my race to represent Idaho in the U.S. Senate.
Live blogging is an extension of my earlier campaigns where I have worked with constituents and shaken hands across Idaho. My style is to meet Idahoans and listen to their concerns where they work, live and play. In one campaign for Congress, I took 22 different jobs – for one week each - over 8 months. I worked in a nursing home, picked apples, worked on a logging crew, served in a restaurant, and so on. Last year I shook 22,209 hands in all 44 counties of Idaho in a short amount of time.
As I sit in my office in Boise, I am reflecting back on the one of the deadliest months of the Iraq War. We have reached a point in this conflict where President Bush will only change course when his focus groups indicate he can no longer accuse Americans of being "chicken hawks" or his "swift boating" of congressmen won’t stick.
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