[Jomini]

Jim Snyder continues to gain ground on Ms Dole. With the primary now scheduled for September 10, the "Citizen senator" has a little less than two months to work his magic. Expect party "leaders" to constantly bad mouth Snyder to the "faithful" as he continues to make headway.

Snyder's chances are predicated on continuing to make his grassroots charge and uptempoing the energy of his field reps -- combined with what should be a very low turnout in the primary. With the state party bungling the state house and senate lineups and discouraging primary opponents from running -- they are actually playing into Snyder's hands by discouraging interest, and thus voter turnout for a primary likely to be overshadowed by 9/11 anniversary media coverage.

Jim Snyder with probably 60,000 votes in the bag right now and it is not outside realistic expectations to assume the primary could have as few as 150-170 thousand GOP voters. With Dr Fisher drawing several thousand female and moderate voters from the Dole column, the numbers begin to get interesting. Snyder's conservative straight forward approach beginning to resonate with the "real people" in the party.

Ms Dole picking a bad time to take a nap.

J

[dwilli]

Do you believe deep down inside that Snyder any
chance in hell of beating Erskine Bowles in the general?
New York has two democrat senators. If your dream comes
true so will our state.

[Windom Earle]

Too bad 1st District Congressional candidate Greg Dority doesn't spend as much time getting himself known as he does bad mouthing other Republican candidates as Jomini.

Your abject failure to gain any real name recognition will be what doomed you, Greg. What a shame, because you have great potential.