I saw a poll that showed Carmouche (the Dem) with a 10 pt lead on Fleming (the Rep). This district went for McCain by about 66%. The GOP just cannot allow conservative Dems to keep winning R +7 districts. We will never be anywhere near the majority if we are losing in districts like these, and that would include Denny Hastert’s old seat and Roger Wicker’s old seat in Mississippi.
Anyway, hopefully Fleming can drum up enough Republican voters to the polls to win this thing. Carmouche will need a big AA turnout - perhaps that will be depressed with Obama not running.
“conservative Dems”
Fauxcons. Our greatest enemy right now. They hold the seats we need to win to take control. They must be exposed as the Pelosi-loving tools they are.
66% huh? I guess that + number is going up.
Hastert’s seat we lost solely because of a bad candidate. Bill Foster is a liberal in a Republican seat. Although the seat went for Obama of course. So did Don Manzullo’s in Northern Illiois which I think has NEVER gone for a dem President before. They only held it for 2 years in whole of the 20th Century. Obama did dreadfully well here in his “home” state.
Is that 10 point lead from a Dem pollster? I’ve seen other polls showing the race to be a tossup. McCain / Palin did even better in the district than Bush did in 2000 and 2004. It sinks that we can’t win even in districts that Obama lost. At least we won the La-06 back.