Its sponsored by a conservative group, but still rather fascinating given that the sample was 41% Democrat and 25% GOP:
The contest between Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and Republican ex-Rep. Dick Zimmer is neck and neck, according to a new poll sponsored by the Club for Growth. It’s no surprise coming out of the Garden State, though, where voters never seem to make up their mind until the very end of an election.
In the good news for the GOP side, only 26% of respondents figure Lautenberg deserved re-election - and its good to keep in mind that Laugtenberg was inserted into the 2002 race after Toricelli was bounced from the Democratic nomination for committing the worst crime of all - being at risk of losing a Democratic seat (all that corruption stuff which got him into trouble was nothing, after all; only the risk of loss motivated the Democrats to take the highly illegal step of switching candidates late in the race). Real Clear politics points out that another poll showed Lautenberg up by 7 percentage points…but tied or +7 for the Democrats, its still good news for the GOP that in very blue NJ in a very tough year for Republicans that we’re within striking distance of a major Senatorial upset.
As I keep saying, this is going to be an interesting year - and throw out all those ideas you had of predicting the outcome. Its really all up in the air, from top of the ticket to bottom.
Tags: Dick Zimmer, Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey, Polls, Senate
August 15th, 2008
He might be the Obamessiah to his kook left supporters, but he’s political kryptonite in Louisiana, it would seem - from Political Punch:
The Baton Rouge Advocate reports that Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., the only Senate Democrat in a competitive race this year, was listed as a co-host for a $100-per-person DC fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, until suddenly, she wasn’t.
The event, “Girls Night Out: Lipstick, Laughter and Libations,” (you can see the cached version which includes Landrieu’s name HERE) is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, August 18.
Landrieu campaign spokesman Scott Schneider told the Advocate that she was never supposed to be listed as a co-host.
“I believe it was a clerical mistake where some finance assistant confused who was going to the event with who was hosting the event,” Schneider said.
Yeah, right - whatever.
This is a sign of Obama’s weakness - his inability to really expand beyond African-American and upper-class white voters. It seems that Obama is so unpopular in Louisiana with everyone other than hard core Democrats that Landrieu made the calculation that “Obama who?” is the best way to save her political hide.
Thing for the GOP to do? Tie her as tightly as possible to Obama and his Democrats.
Tags: Louisiana, Senate
August 12th, 2008
A brilliant video by John Kerry’s opponent for the United States Senate.
I didn’t know that their was such a thing as Senate hair care…
Tags: Jim Ogonowski, John Kerry, Senate
March 12th, 2008
