The Gubernatorial Races In 9 Charts-- And The Last Blue America Contest Of 2018 Ends Today At Noon (PT)

First the contest. Blue America is giving away...

• $5,000 to each of 3 progressive candidates for their GOTV efforts
• $1,000 to one candidate
• 5 beautiful, signed prints by Nancy Ohanian from her Heroes of The Revolution series: Randy Bryce, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Lieu, Alan Grayson.

Remember, this contest ends at noon today Pacific Time. All the rules are here, but it's pretty easy. Click on the thermometer. All of the candidates on the list won their primaries and were then either told to go pound sand by the elitist dogs at the DCCC or were just ignored by the DCCC entirely. But don't get me started... Heard that a member of Congress read by post where I referred to the DCCCers as "scumbags" the other day and then called the executive director up and called him a "scumbag" and he blew up and blamed me. Pick any 3 candidates from the list and contribute at least $1.18 to each of them. You can donate any amount-- as long as it isn't over the $2,700 limit-- but make sure you add $0.18 so we know you want it counted as a "vote." The 3 candidates with the most "votes," each gets a $5,000 check. And the candidate with the most money gets a $1,000 contribution. We will randomly pick 5 contributors by tomorrow and each one will get to pick any of the 4 signed prints as a thanks for participating gift from Blue America. Got it? Ready, set, go! Here are the 4 prints. First Ted Lieu and Randy Bryce. And after that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alan Grayson:

OK, as promised, here are the 9 gubernatorial contests-- all of which were considered toss-ups at the beginning of the cycle. Look at them now, at least according to FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver:

A one in twenty chance to win! I bet Schuette wishes he hadn't helped try to cover up the Flint water scandal. His career is so cooked! I bet he thought he could win because Trump "somehow" managed to take the Michigan electoral votes. Maybe some other time, Bill. Though... hopefully not.

Ron DeSantis was also counting on Trump-- and that was enough to get him the Republican nomination. But that's where that ended. He's spent the entire campaign hiding from the voters and hiding from the media and every time he's been forced to pop his head out of his whole, his favorabilities have gone down and his chances to win have followed. He still appears to have a 20.5% chance though. Let's see if a rally or two in Florida with Trump can drive his chances down further. What do you think?

This is a race worth investing in if you still have any money left. Scott Walker is the ultimate Koch puppet and everyone in Wisconsin will be able to breath the air of freedom if his ugly career is short-circuited. I see a much bigger anti-red wave in Wisconsin than most people do-- and Walker has a lot to do with it, almost as much as Trump. Let's keep our fingers crossed that Wisconsin comes through for Tony Evers, Tammy Baldwin, Randy Bryce and that the state Senate flips as well.

What's wrong with someone like Greg Orman-- with less than a 1 in a 100 chance to win-- to not drop out and endorse, and vigorously campaign for, Laura Kelly? After all, at this point he is throwing the race to Kris Kobach, one of the arch-villains of American politics. Is that how Orman wants to go down in Kansas history? What an asshole!

Here's where we-- Georgia, the nation, the world-- see if grotesque and completely blatant cheating pays off. Brian Kemp should be headed towards a prison cell, not to the governor's mansion.