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March 07, 2006

Quick Post

Midterm exams are fun. I only have time for a quick post today, but there's tons of news.

The NYT has an article about the Republican Party's year of failure in challenging Clinton.

The NYT also writes about out likely pickup opportunity in Pennsylvania:

Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate leadership, sums up his race for re-election this year with a paradoxical pride: "The other side of the aisle wants to beat me more than anything you can possibly imagine," he told the Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association not long ago.

Mr. Santorum is almost certainly right. No other race in the nation has so focused the Democratic Party's energy, resources or raw hunger to return to power on Capitol Hill. No other race so captures the Republican Party's vulnerabilities this year, with some public opinion polls consistently showing Mr. Santorum trailing his Democratic opponent, State Treasurer Bob Casey Jr.

And a new poll confirms Casey's lead: Casey: 49%, Santorum: 37%

Burns tied to lobbyists:

A study of Montana’s two senators — Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Conrad Burns — shows that while both lawmakers have lost staff to lobbying jobs and accepted lobbyist donations, only Burns has hired lobbyists for such key positions as legislative director and campaign chairman. He has also started a nonprofit group with lobbyists.

While such practices are perfectly legal, their ethical implications have come under increasing scrutiny in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Read the rest.

Ned Lamont met with major CT political consultant Rick Blain:

It was D'Amore who helped Lowell P. Weicker try to open up state party primaries in the 1980s. He was alongside Weicker when Lieberman swiped Weicker's U.S. Senate seat with a bare-knuckled sneak attack from the right. Then he helped steer Weicker to a historic third-party grab of the governor's mansion in 1990, and served as Gov. Weicker's chief of staff.These days D'Amore has settled into a role befitting Claude Rains' Captain Louis Renault - lobbying and consulting at a firm housed at the airport: Doyle, D'Amore & Balducci. His job doesn't entail working for idealistic clients. But he's still eager, if the right opportunity arrives, to slip to the barricades of a noble quest.A quest, perhaps, like the one Ned Lamont arrived at D'Amore's office to discuss.

Getting D'Amore on the campaign would be a huge step for Lamont. Read the rest of the article for the laundry list of reasons why we need to get rid of Lieberman.

And finally, bad news out of Tennessee. Ford is trailing in the new Rasmussen poll:

Ed Bryant (R) 45%
Harold Ford (D) 36%

Van Hilleary (R) 43%
Harold Ford (D) 35%

Bob Corker (R) 39%
Harold Ford (D) 35%

Posted by Max at March 7, 2006 01:51 AM

Comments

Santorum - not even worth taking about, he's done - stick a fork in him.

Burns - most unpopular senator in the country with a net favorability rating of -9. The only senate pick-up more certain than this one for dems is santorum in pennsylvania.

I hope and pray that Namont will unseat Lieberman. It is looking more and more plausible, except for Lieberman's huge cash advantage. We would be ousting an undercover republican and gaining a real democrat in the senate.

Ford - it pains me to say it but i don't know if a black man can win a senate election in a southern state like tennessee. Too bad b/c Ford is actually one of the most effective, eloquent and progressive politicians I have seen in a long time.

Posted by: Ohio guy at March 7, 2006 05:57 AM

progressive? I was under the impression that Ford is a moderate.

Posted by: Johnny Longtorso at March 7, 2006 11:20 AM

Accoring to Tennessee voters- Ford is probally a progressive but according to Liberal Bloggers in the coastal regions- Ford is a moderate.

Posted by: Neal Patel at March 7, 2006 01:42 PM

Ford is definitely a moderate..he's moderately pro choice, pro business and a relative hawk on the war

Posted by: anon at March 7, 2006 02:15 PM

Progressive and moderate are not mutually exlusive.

Posted by: Ohio guy at March 7, 2006 03:29 PM

Bad news folks, not every Dem is a liberal! (what does 'liberal' mean anyway?)

Are the Democrats not the big tent party? What's going on here? The point is to gain control of congress, take control of the agenda and take to the Bushies. Yeah, it may stink along the way - politics is a full contact sport.

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