Some people like Chuck Todd, others don’t. I remember his days with the Hotline and always found him to be a straight shooter when talking about House, Senate and gubernatorial races. And that is why I found this article in today’s First Read so interesting. Even though he is not declaring her dead, it does not sound as though he likes her chances.
Down the ballot in North Carolina, the Democratic hit that Elizabeth Dole spent just 20 days in the Tar Heel State in 2005 and 13 days there in 2006 might very well have been the final nail in her coffin in her race against Dem challenger Kay Hagan. Could the end of the Bush era also bring us the end of the Dole era? There has been a Dole in the Senate for nearly 50 straight years — and either a Bush or a Dole on the national ticket going back to ’72. Will Liddy Dole’s potential defeat signal the true end of the two most powerful Republican families of the last 50 years?
I am sure Bob and Elizabeth Dole love each other very much, but s far as their record in the Senate, she cannot hold a candle to her husband’s, which is remarkable by any standard. North Carolina elected Jesse Helms for many years and they gave us Faircloth and Burr as well, so I would not write off any Republican, but it’s fair to say Dole is in a lot of trouble and fast running out of time. If she does not find a magic bullet soon, she won’t have to step inside North Carolina ever again.
Probably more convenient for her, heh.
Brownback is retiring in 2010, maybe she can run in KS next time.
Where’s Dole? (Road to Victory) is OK but it’s 2 minutes 12 seconds long.
I would like to see this boiled down to a punchy 30 sec ad, with the shot of the Watergate Hotel sign as the concluding punch line.
It probably still won’t be quite as good or effective as their brilliant “Rocking Chairs” ad, but nice nonetheless.
Had some e-mail correspondence with him in 2006. I was convinced that Sherwood Boehlert was going to retire in NY-24 because a) he was of retirement age at 64 and b)the GOP was going to take away his chairmanship of the House Science Committee and probably not give him another chairmanship slot. I based it on the local newspaper coverage and (ta da) I was right although Chuck Todd was nice enough about the thing.
He actually pays attention although he tends to be “conservative” in the sense of going with the status quo. The new polling obviously was the needed push to move from status quo to status change.