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Subscribe to RSSThe Washington Post's Cillizza takes a look at this midterm's batch of self-funded candidates, noting their investments rarely mean big returns. “Between 2000 and 2009, just more than one in 10 (11 percent) of self-funding candidates -- defined as those for whom half or more of total money raised came from themselves -- seeking state offices won. That dismal percentage came even though the approximately 6,000 self-financing candidates donated nearly $1 billion of their own money -- or 12 percent of all money raised by all candidates during that 10-year period.”
COLORADO: Jan Brewer, kingmaker? “Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Saturday endorsed Colorado Lieutenant Gov. Jane Norton in Norton’s Senate GOP bid, perhaps signaling growing demand for Brewer’s endorsement of conservative candidates outside of her state that focus on curbing illegal immigration,” The Hill reports.
“Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Buck called Tea Partyers questioning the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate 'dumba---s' to a Democratic operative recording his comments without his permission,” the Denver Post writes.
MISSOURI: Roy Blunt leads Robin Carnahan in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch/KMOV-TV poll, “Blunt was preferred by 48 percent of the respondents, compared with 42 percent for Carnahan… In the poll, 57 percent of respondents disapproved of Obama's performance as president, compared with 34 percent who approved.”
NEVADA: “[A]n internal memo obtained by the Associated Press says Reid has ‘a serious problem’ with voters frustrated with the economy and ‘receives a great deal of blame.’ The July 15 memo is based on polling research conducted for Patriot Majority, a union-funded group that is running TV ads against Angle. The race is wide open, the memo concludes, despite Reid’s improved standing and voters’ alarm over some of Angle’s positions.”
That said… “Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Sharron Angle and her lackluster campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), fearing she is jeopardizing what they had long viewed as a sure pickup and costing them a chance to reclaim the majority,” Roll Call reports. “Senate Republicans quietly acknowledge that Angle’s controversial views on some issues remain a political liability. But the former Nevada Assemblywoman’s larger problems are a progression of unforced errors stemming from a lack of campaign experience and an amateurish staff incapable of offering her the necessary guidance.”
OKLAHOMA: Taegan Goddard links to an Oklahoma Poll, conducted for Tulsa World newspaper, showing Republican gubernatorial candidate Mary Fallin leading her primary challenger Randy Brogdon by 38 points, 56% to 18%, and Democrat Drew Edmonson leading Jari Askins, 49% to 33%.
TENNESSEE: Over the weekend, Rep. Zach Wamp, a Republican candidate for governor, backed away from comments made during an interview with Hotline on Call that “suggested Tennessee and other states may have to consider seceding from the union if the federal government does not change its ways regarding mandates. 'I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government,' Wamp had said.
But on Saturday, Wamp clarified his earlier remarks, the Kingsport Times-News reports. “'When I'm governor of Tennessee, of course we will not secede from the union,” Wamp said. 'But we will also not have a governor who will cave in to Barack Obama… We're going to be a proud partner as a member of the United Sates of America,' he said. 'But there needs to be a conflict between the states and the federal government.'”
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Angle, how could anyone in their right mind even consider voting for her. If she's an example of typical Repug candidates, then we're in deep dodo if we elect a majority of Repugs, Please get out and vote Democrats. How can Reid be expected to get anything done with the party of NO voting against everything. I find it amazing he's accomplished what he has.
I find it amazing that a sitting Senate Majority leader has a favorable rating of 45.4% favorable-52% unfavorable (Pollster.com), and a job approval rating of 44% approve-53% disapprove (Public Policy Polling) from his own Nevada constituents.
That is why Harry Reid is struggling against Sharron Angle.
The Administration's signature legislative achievement, health care reform, weighs in with 41% support-52% oppose numbers among Nevadans.
Apparently his constituents wished he had voted no on Obamacare, if nothing else.
How can I comment on your foolishness.
Try rebutting my comment, maybe?
Can you?
Every member of Congress has a negative approval rating now, Democrat, Republican, Idependent. So to have an approval rating in the high 40's puts him on the more positive side of thing. What are Ms. Angle rating?
C'mon, Frank...
Really?
Every one of the 500+ members of Congress has a negative approval rating?
You're just making things up, aren't you?
Mix -
Who's leading in the Senate race? Reid or Angle.
Enough said.
There's never enough said at First Read, Tom...surprised that you're unaware of that.
Pollster.com's average shows that Reid is leading Angle by a 43.6%-43.3% margin.
The RealClearPolitics average shows Reid ahead 45%-43%.
Harry Reid is a sitting Senate Majority Leader...yet he may indeed lose to Sharron Angle, of all people.
That says far more about Harry Reid than it says about his opponent.
Of course, the poor guy has the unpopular Obama agenda hanging around his neck.
That doesn't help, does it?
Individual members might get an approval rating above 50% from their home state but when graded on the whole, because they do represent the whole country, they fall into the negative range, unless you can show me someone who gets a high rating. Can you show me one?
California Tom is right, Mixed Bag. Angle is NOT going to win this race because of her very 'odd' stances on the issues. The mere fact that this SHOULD have been a cakewalk for Sharron Angle - in light of Sen. Reid's unpopularity in Nevada - should tell you something.
So, you are WRONG AGAIN, Mixed Bag. Sharron Angle should be walking away with this contest, but she is TRAILING Sen. Reid in the polls (which you so graciously provided, thank you). Sharron Angle will fall further behind as the November midterms approach.
Frank-
I sure can. One of Reid's likely successors as Senate Majority Leader, should he lose and the Democrats hang on to the Senate, is Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
According to the latest Sienna Poll (July, 2010), Reid's fellow Democrat Schumer, unlike Harry, has a 60% approval-28% disapproval number from his New York constituents. And, there are plenty of members of both Houses of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, who have positive approval ratings.
Harry isn't one of them...is he?
Pietro-
I have never claimed to be correct about everything, but I've done quite well where discussions with you are concerned. Hopefully, your debating skills will improve as you mature.
As for Harry Reid's future, I know you believe that you're a seer, a modern-day Nostradamus. But, if you would take the time to read my posts more carefully, you'll see that the only claims I made about the Nevada Senate race was that Reid may lose, and I demonstrated how close the race is.
I don't believe that you can show that I was wrong with either of those assertions.
Can you?
And while you're pondering the answer to that query...ask yourself why Reid's numbers are so abysmal.
Don't Nevadans like Harry's work with the Obama agenda?
I maintain my Independant status by strongly supporting my Republican Congressman, but the thought of the Republicans taking control of either the Senate of the House is positively frightening. The kooks in the Democratic Party are at least managed by the conservative Democrats. Egged on by Fox News, the kooks on the right have subjugated most of the Republican Party to the point that there is a real danger in giving them control of anything. If you take an honest look at the legislation that has been passed since Obama took office, you have to admit that it is not bad, not bad at all, no matter what Fox News may say.
Mixed Bag, I have spent the past thirty minutes trying to find one member of Congress that has a high national approval number and so far I have not found one, That surprises me because after you pointed out there are over 500 of them, I thought, well surely there must be a few who are well thought of, but I guess I was right. Have you found anyone who has rates high nationally?
E-Verify, a durable enforcement tool designed in President Bush's administration has been conceded by Nevada's Harry Reid, who tried to thrash it in the Senate chamber. As an outsider I comprehend nothing but different presidencies, either cutting subsidies or just plain lying about immigration enforcement. America! We have a colossal problem that has become a national hemorrhaging of our hospitals, schools and welfare benefits being consumed by illegal recipients. Yet the federal government has failed dismally in its responsibility to defend this country from enemies domestic and foreign. Your vote is important to Washington’s Senate and Congressman, so bombard them that you are adamantly against any type of Amnesty. You want them to secure the border and do it now, because Mexico’s blood bath could easily erupts here. Call the Washington switchboard at 202-224-3121.