Another brick in the wall: Local media have been declaring Dem Rep. Gabrielle Giffords the victor over Republican Jesse Kelly tonight, and the Associated Press just made the call in her favor. A good save for Team Blue.
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Maybe she has statewide potential some day.
Giving to Conway was a lost cause.
Could she win.
Also, am I nuts or do we have some legit pickup opporunities in the Senate in ’10
1.Mass- any dem whose last name isn’t Coakley has a fighting chance. It was not a good night for the GOP in MA on Tuesday. 0/10 in the House and Deval Patrick wins.
2.Nevada- Berkley could win. Will the GOP nominee be Ensign? Angle? Heller?
3.Maine- If Snowe retires/ is teabagged in the primary we could win. Maybe Tom Allen or Congressman Michaud.
4.Indiana-If Lugar retires we could have a shot with Hill/ Donnelly or even Brad Ellsworth. Especially if the GOP nominates someone like Marlin Stutzman.
5.Arizona-Gabby Giffords or Terry Goddard could be strong candidates.
If we could win MA + just one more it would go a long way towards holding the Senate.
To hold on in this year, of all years. I hope that she can continue to thrive. I don’t know whether statewide would work because AZ seems so hostile at the moment, but I guess it depends on whether she thinks she can stay in her district and win, or on the situation in the House climate in 2012.
Rory v. Sharon. Who would win if Obama carried Nevada by a similar margin to ’08. A father/son delegation- it’d never happen, but it would be fun to see the father and the son defeat Angle!
I’m curious to know why she is held in such high regard by so many. I know very little about her, so please, tell me something I can’t learn from reading Wikipedia. It’s nice to know there are talented politicians that weren’t taken out.
I’d love nothing more to have her be a future leader of the party, because it’d prove my point that the Democrats, even after all of the losses on Tuesday, have a much deeper bench of future national candidates than the Republicans. Right now, off the top of my head, my list might include Mark Warner, Martin O’Malley, Maria Cantwell, Kirstin Gillibrand, Chris Murphy, and Jim Himes. There are others, like Tom Perriello, that lost Tuesday but who could easily have a future in politics. And those are just the relatively young ones. We’ve still got people like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Jeanne Shaheen, Janet Napolitano, and Kathleen Sebelius.