SSP Daily Digest: 3/9 (Morning Edition)

  • CA-Sen: Arianna Packard, granddaughter of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, is slamming Carly Fiorina for “almost destroying” HP. Packard, who had pushed for Fiorina’s ouster from the company in 2005, is supporting rival Chuck DeVore in the GOP primary. (P.S. Carlyfornia just officially filed to run.)
  • FL-Sen: Tom Jensen is such a tease:

    We are going to have absolutely brutal numbers out on Charlie Crist tomorrow.

    Here’s a little preview: among Republican primary voters 19% would like to see him as Governor a year from now, 14% want him in the Senate, and 56% want him out of elected office.

    If there is any path to his winning office in Florida again – and there may not be – it’s as something other than a Republican.

  • NC-Sen: Attorney Ken Lewis scored a pretty good endorsement in his uphill Dem primary against Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham: Rep. Mel Watt (NC-12) has given Lewis his backing. Watt is the second member of Congress to support Lewis; Rep. G. K. Butterfield, another CBC member, had previously endorsed.
  • ND-Sen: Former SoS candidate and businesswoman Kristin Hedger (D) is passing on a run to replace the retiring Byron Dorgan. Still, Dems do have a candidate in state Sen. Tracy Potter.
  • NV-Sen: Huzzah! Harry Reid has officially filed for re-election!
  • AL-05: This is bipartisanship you can believe in, my friends: Dems and conservatives alike, some 400 strong, protested John Boehner and Parker Griffith outside of a closed-door fundraiser the Minority Leader held in Huntsville for the newest, and least-popular, member of his caucus.
  • LA-02: CQ Politics sat down for an interview with state Rep. Juan LaFonta, who is aiming to take down GOP Rep. Joe Cao. (So is fellow state Rep. Cedric Richmond.)
  • PA-06: Doug Pike has proposed a “positive campaign agreement” to Manan Trivedi, his rival for the Dem nomination to take on erstwhile Rep. Jim Gerlach this fall. Trivedi hasn’t made a formal decision yet, but his manager said of Pike’s offer: “It certainly sounds like someone who’s afraid of his own record.”
  • SC-05: After Dem Rep. John Spratt’s anemic fourth quarter filing prompted renewed speculation that the veteran incumbent may be heading for the exits this year, he’s taking some positive steps towards a re-election bid. Spratt’s office says that the congressman “intends to run again” and will hold a fundraiser at DNC headquarters this week. (JL)
  • Census: Only one Representative voted against a non-binding resolution to promote participation in the Census last week… did you guess Ron Paul? You guessed right! Memo to U.S. Gov’t: Keep your nose out of my gold bullion stash! Be really curious what happens to this fucking weirdo in redistricting. In less wacky Census news, the Census Bureau started sending out advance notification letters to 120 million households today. Research shows that these letters boost response rates.
  • Polling: Jed Lewison has some great visualizations of exactly how stark Rasmussen’s “house effect” is.
  • Voting: This is a good bit of news (and shows you why having Dems in charge of Washington still matters, even if they can’t seem to get anything done in Congress): The Obama DoJ blocked one of the biggest voting machine makers, Electronic Systems & Software, from purchasing Premier Election Solutions (an arm of Diebold). Had the deal gone forward, ES&S would have controlled 70% of the voting machine market. Hooray for competition!

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    4. My boyfriend and I got the letter yesterday, and he immediately lambasted the goverment for wasting money on the notice letters.  (He’s pretty damn conservative.)

      The ironic thing is he’s applying to be a census worker today…

    5. http://www.blueoregon.com/2010…

      Ted Wheeler, Multnomah Co Chair, appointed through the special election coming Nov 2010. Multnomah Co includes most of Portland.

      He replaces the dearly departed Ben Westlund.

      Today is the deadline for 2010 general election filings. Rick Metsger has already filed.

    8. Does this moron not know that the US Census is mandated by the Constitution?

      Who are these people that vote for this loser?!

    9. Registered voters – Dems up 47-44. GOP lead with indies is just 6 points.

      http://www.gallup.com/poll/126…

      They suggest the average drop-off with likely voters is about 4 points historically.

      Republicans are more enthusiastic to vote but not by the margins found by Research 2000. Somewhat/very enthusiastic comes out at GOP 67 and Dems 54. This is why HCR must be passed. Do it and with some job creation things won’t be so bad come November.

    10. The Susan Bitter Smith Award for candidates who make ridiculously laughable and nasty moves in their attempts to nuke the hell out of their primary opponents.  The award is named after former Arizona State Sen. Susan Bitter Smith, who attempted to destroy the entire multi-candidate Republican field in a 1998 House election by getting two other candidates to go negative on one another, then hilariously claiming she was blameless for setting up the smackdown (see my link above).  The award may be presented at any time to any candidate who merits it.

      I’d like to present the inaugural Susan Bitter Smith Award to Doug Pike, for spending months bashing the hell out of Manan Trivedi using underhanded tactics, then demanding that Trivedi agree to run a clean campaign.

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