Posted on 09/01/2010 8:57:26 PM PDT by dangus
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/rep-chet-edwards-emerges-as-mu.html
I am nervous about Edwards..He is a dem in a neavily R district and always pulls it out..
Flores may be ahead in the polls for now but Edwards just put out his first attack ad. on Flores.
Polling here in S. AZ seems to have really taken off.
I have been telphone polled four times since the primary last week - with two of them being real people on the line.
I’m in Gabby Giffords - the solar queen - district and it looks like Jesse Kelley is picking up steam here. On the 10:00 pm news, there are often back-to-back ads for Kelley and Giffords.
The list in post #1 is old - Patton (the AZ RINO party pick) lost out in the primary to Jesse Kelley.
Indeed!
We must behave like we are not victorious.
We must work HARD to make that a reality.
Never, ever, ASSUME we will take over the House.
There are some old polls here - some don’t even have the candidates that are actually running.
I’ll get Blake’s office to send it to me.
I saw a Dan Heck TV commercial and thought he was a repub.
Actually he is democrat and his commercial did not show that.
He is running anti-Wasshington DC positions in his ad.
His opponent is Jaime Herrera, GOP candidate. She is ahead in polls.
IL-17: Schilling (R) 45%, Hare (D) 32% D+3
Could someone please explain to me why the mainstream media continues to insist this race is "Likely Rat"? Phil Hare's been in free fall for sometime now. Schilling is polling better against Hare than many Republican challengers running in majority GOP districts!
And the other races in my home state:
IL-8: Walsh (R) 38%, Bean (D) 37% R+1
Walsh making a comeback and taking Bean out would be the upset of the year in this state. I'd love to see Bean gone. She's become everything she attacked Phil Crane for.
IL-14 Hultgren (R) 44% , Foster (D) 37% R+1
Looking good for taking back "Speaker Hastert's old seat". Maybe Roskam & Hultgren's state seat is becoming a training ground for future Congressmen. ;-)
IL-10 Kinzinger (R) 52%, Halvorson (D) 32% D+6
Are they mixing up IL-10 with IL-11? IL-10 is Kirk's seat, it's Dold (R) vs. Seals (D) there. It went to Obama by 61%, sounds like a much more likely contender for "D+6" than IL-11. IL-11 was drawn to be about 52% GOP - 48% DEM in 2000. I doubt Obama carried the Will Co.-to-Kankakee regions by big enough margins to make it D+6 in comparison to the "average" district.
Kinzinger is doing great and on track to beat Halvonson and take back IL-11 (Jerry Weller's old seat). But Bob Dold is struggling against 2-time loser Dan Seals in IL-10. Dold needs to more of his own man and stop trying to be Mark Kirk lite. I think Kirk fatigue is creating a backlash there. Kirk won twice against Seals in heavy RAT turnout years, there's no reason why Dold shouldn't be beating him in a year with heavy GOP support.
Yeah, he despised the leadership so much that he went ahead and voted for Nancy Pelosi as speaker. Minnick MUST be defeated. It’s guys like him whose sole purpose is to pad the majority’s numbers and then they are given a pass to vote like conservatives when their votes aren’t needed. Voting for Minnick is no different than voting for Pelosi.
More on Mike Grimm NY 13’s next Congressman :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2581800/posts
Moving America forward is coming to Staten Island today.
Ping
VA 2 Rigell 51, Nye 35 R+5
VA 5 Hurt 49, Perriello 43 R+5
VA 11 Fimian 40, Connolly 35 D+2
Some good news for the Old Dominion. Nye is a finger-in-the wind type with no real guiding sense of principle and Perriello is an 0bamabot to the core.
Isnt Dingell one of the oldest members of congress?
I think Dingell is 84.
WAY past time to go I think.
Blake Farenthold just announced on September 20, that he has been accepted by the The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) "Young Guns" program.
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