Will this chad hang?

According to the Modesto Bee last week, carpetbaggers from both the major parties are raising bundles in the primary to win one of the two top slots in the 10th Congressional District in California (Stanislaus County, Tracy, Manteca, Escalon and Copperopolis). Meanwhile, a candidate who was actually born in the district with a leaflet for his daddy in his hand, is burning up the peapatch on a fraction of the dough.
The way it breaks down so far is Republican Rep. Jeff Denham, $1,332,000; Democrat Jose Hernandez, $600,000; and Independent "Hangin'" Chad Condit, son of the Blue Dog Himself, Gary Condit, $45,000 with a boost of $51,000 from a superpack called icPurple, pushing independent candidates.
Smart Valley pols are calling this race the most interesting and myserious of the year. Denham makes people's noses crinkcle around here. Big, tinted blond, and a brain-dead, beliigerent ideologue with no manners but a lot of political luck, at least up until now, moreorless sums up how people see him unless they rent, lease or own a piece of him. Hernandez, the retired astronaut returned to his hometown, Stockton, to lead his people out of the desert, looks good enough on paper compared with Denham that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, chaired by Rep. Steve Isreal of New York, is plunging for him.
But "Hangin'" Chad has what none of the rest of them can buy, if he can put it together: the old Gary Condit ground operation.
Gary condit was convincingly cleared of any involvement with the death of Chandra Levi. Gary was never like the crook who took his place in Congress, Dennis Cardoza, the Pimlico Kid, who parlayed his early connections with the classy University of California for the company of the plutocrat farmers of Heavy Metal Flats and finally, what looks like an politically abiding relationship at last with the horse-race gambling industry. Gary Condit was not a crook like either Tony "Honest Graft" Coelho, who preceded him in office, or Cardoza, the Pimlico Kid, who followed him.
In "Hangin'" Chad Condit, the people can have one of their own if they want that again.