Who is Ken Buck, and why won’t wikipedia let me know?
I was wondering about the politician in Colorado, the “Tea Party” insurgent who won the Colorado Republican Primary on Tuesday for US Senate to take on Michael Bennett. “Wait. Is this the guy who claimed that bike paths were a UN plot?” No, that’s the gubernatorial candidate — who is not going to win in large part because Tom Tancredo is running a third party campaign — but, might possibly win if not for that.
I checked wikipedia for “Ken Buck”. Even considering that he was regarded as inconsequential until recently, even considering that his chances to take the Republican nomination didn’t spike up until late in the primary campaign, I was surprised by how the wikipedia article read. It was as though written by the Ken Buck for Senate campaign. These things, understand, are contested — partisans for the candidates tending to devote more time than they particularly desire to affecting the wikipedia article. Perhaps this is a show of the front-runner sleeping on the race, perhaps it is a show of a low-tech electorate, perhaps a show of how wikipedia has slid out of the credibility scale.
Seriously, I can’t recall the sentence that had been on the page that was hilariously self-serving — something about an epiphany from God that lead him into Public Service and doing the People’s Business and turning around a previously skeptical person.
It still is a jagged article.
The editing history is worth a gander, as it beefs up a previously static and useless page.
Things that drive me more nuts than they should… Chris Good analyzes the chances that the Republican Party might take over the Senate.
He categorizes New Hampshire as currently held by Democrats. He does not place Ohio’s race into the list of potential Democratic pick-ups, even though the Democrat has better standing there than the Democrat in most of the list of states listed. This would bring the number from 13 and 4 over to 12 and 6.
Number of comments to take to “Journolist” in this decent ezra klein blog post: ten, but that’s because it didn’t pop into the mind for some of the previous commenters — commenter #9 and his “nearly half public Ozers taking government handouts and not citizens” probably should have crammed it in.