Republican candidates are showing surprising financial strength in Congressional districts held by Democrats in the Northeast that party leaders have singled out as ripe for what could be critical gains in the November election.
Some of the most competitive races are taking shape in the New York metropolitan region.
In the 19th Congressional District, north of New York, the Republican challenger, Nan Hayworth, an ophthalmologist, has amassed about $519,000, slightly more than the roughly $451,000 that the Democratic incumbent, Representative John J. Hall, has in his campaign coffers…
And on it goes. Of course, money doesn’t equal victory – but after having been outspent by the Democrats in 2008, it is telling that the GOP in the Northeast is getting such traction. Remember, the leftist story line is that unless the GOP goes left, we’ll become a regional party of the South. And yet, as the GOP base has tacked further right and started to drag along the GOP leadership, Republican prospects are rising all over…including in the more liberal areas of the country.
Could it be that the left is wrong?
Could it be that the sun rises in the east?
Anyways…
The battle for November is really not even begun and we can expect Democrats to find yet new depths in the political gutter to try and derail conservatism. We won’t win this in a walkover, boys and girls: if we win, it will only be after a very hard, very long fight with determined political opponents.
But, 2010 is still getting more and more fun, all the time…
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