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Dems will not hold impeachment hearings while Bill is campaigning with Hillary.
by annefrank on Tue May 30, 2006 at 07:50:57 PM PDT
I don't know, but I do hope tomorrow morning their Democratic opponets begin planning on how to use this.
"Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right"
by molly bloom on Tue May 30, 2006 at 07:54:55 PM PDT
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Running in OH-18, where I live. Thanks, Molly!
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
by Margot on Tue May 30, 2006 at 08:27:33 PM PDT
pick up WV-2 and OH-14 if this pans out. OH-18 is already considered to be a toss-up, because it's been known that Ney's been involved with Abramoff for months.
But I don't see us beating Don Young. High oil prices should make Alaskans happy.
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by DemocraticLuntz on Tue May 30, 2006 at 07:55:24 PM PDT
...to nowhere.
People in 49 states have reason to be pissed about it, but Alaskans like it when Young and Stevens bring home the pork.
The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.
by DHinMI on Tue May 30, 2006 at 08:01:49 PM PDT
and resigns the day of the filing deadline. That would be a great sign that he knows he's going down. Wishfull thinking I know.
by mike20169 on Wed May 31, 2006 at 04:14:27 AM PDT
by mike20169 on Wed May 31, 2006 at 04:15:33 AM PDT
OH-18 is already competitive; the Dem Dover Mayor Zack Space and Bob Ney are already at it - I'd rate Ney's chances of holding the seat at 50% at best.
I'm not as optimistic about OH-14 - the district is only narrowly Bush, but Capri Cafaro's performance back in '04 (where she plunked quite a good deal of her own money, to the tune of millions) was rather abysmal. Of course, this was before the Ohio GOP's scandals fully blew out and LaTourette's vote on CAFTA. I don't think we can do it as of yet; Lew Katz is running and is a decent candidate (much better than Capri Cafaro), but he does lack her $$. If the Ohio GOP implodes a little more and there is even more anti-incumbent sentiment, plus some big coattails from Ted Strickland and Sherrod Brown upticket, it's not impossible.
As to WV-02, Shelley Moore Capito's already been in "trouble" for awhile; this had been considered a 2nd-tier race. Mike Callaghan (the former WV Dem Party chair) is also a capable candidate and West Virginia is quite kind to Democrats on a state/local level; this could very well be "the 15th seat" if the Democratic wave truly gets high enough. Plus Robert Byrd will be upticket, which can't hurt.
Finally, I agree with what's been said about AK-AL...Don Young does have the amazing ability to waste taxpayer money faster than your typical Washington politician. He brings home the pork, to the tune of hundreds of millions (and thats just on the goddamn bridges alone). Even with Knowles helping us out up top, it's still quite unlikely.
"The convetional wisdom is always right. Until it's wrong." -Polisci Lecture
by jeff06dem on Tue May 30, 2006 at 08:41:11 PM PDT
by a combination of Bush coattails and the luck of having an opponent who spent personal money to get on the ticket. We've benefitted several times when the GOP has advanced to the general such opponents, and we suffered against SMC.
She won in 2002 by a combination of post-9/11 and because DeLay targetted her as at-risk and got WeStar to give her buckets of cash in exchange for voting for a "reform" that would allow the bank to turn all its bad loans into utility company debt which could in turn be simply charged to Kansas power customers.
She ought to be hearing the immortal words of former (GOP) WV Gov Underwood press secretary Rod Blackstone, "You - Are - Toast."
Have you heard? The vice president's gone mad. - Bob Dylan, 1966
by textus on Wed May 31, 2006 at 06:56:05 AM PDT
wide narrow
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