Posted on 04/07/2005 7:54:22 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Terri Land is a very good campaigner and would at least give us a decent shot to win. She won her race by 10%, which is a landslide in Michigan(most races within 5%).
Dayton is not running, it'll be an open seat.
Perhaps I rushed, or Maybe the last couple of Senators (First and then Allen) have set the bar that much higher, that a return to mediocrity is in order now.
She campaigned hard for this job against someone, who should have edged her out.
She doesn't clear fields, or recruit, it seems like Karl Rove and Bush have to pick up alot of the slack for her, hell, the guy she beat, already went out and recruited someone, and then cleared the field for him.
Either way, her democratic counterpart is already running circles around her, and we haven't even gotten into high gear yet.
The previous senator (Gramm?) is already thrown accusations that Coleman went out and got Kennedy (who was supposedly on the fence), but what burns Gramms so much, is that the field (minus him) has been cleared, and the entire party united very fast around Kennedy.
Its also pretty obvious that Pawlenty and Coleman are both influences in his campaign, look at Kennedy's campaign staff and see how many GOP operatives from Coleman and Pawlenty are there.
Nah, I don't buy it. Kennedy was talking himself up -- excuse me, his supporters were independently talking him up -- for a Senate run against Dayton starting, when, after he won his first race? Definitely after his reelection in 2002, and that's when Coleman and Pawlenty were first elected statewide themselves. Not surprising that staff from the two current bigwigs would be working for the probable next bigwig.
Good points by both of you.
I repeated your point a half hour after you posted it. That's because I loaded the page, took a shower, did some other stuff, and came back and replied. In the meantime, you'd already said the same thing I said.
Ahhh, okay. :-) Thanks for clarifying. I'm easily confused.
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