• NH-Sen: The scurvy dogs at ARG! take their first reading of the 2010 New Hampshire senate race since Judd Gregg announced his retirement, finding that Rep. Paul Hodes beats ex-Sen. John Sununu 42-36. Hodes leads Sununu 38-31 among independents. (MoE ±4.2%)
• KY-Sen: In the days leading up to 1Q fundraising reports, Jim Bunning has publicly admitted that his fundraising has been “lousy,” although he says “Surprisingly, we’ve had pretty good success the last month.” He’s looking forward to some April fundraisers starring such luminaries as Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, and fellow baseball celeb Tommy Lasorda.
• GA-Gov: Roy Barnes is sounding very interested in another try at the governor’s race. Barnes got bounced by Sonny Perdue after one term in 2002, but populist anger plus demographic changes in Georgia may make a Barnes comeback feasible. (Insider Advantage found earlier this month that Barnes would defeat several of the likely GOP candidates.)
• LA-02: Joseph Cao is signaling he may actually break ranks and vote for the Obama budget this week, telling The Hill that his constituents are “split.” (In the sense that they are likely to “split” his head open if he keeps voting the party line.)
• History: Roll Call takes an interesting look back at the spate of special elections during the 1993-1994 session of Congress, and the structural reasons we aren’t likely to see a repeat of the disastrous 1994 election again.
that there are people in this country willing to plop down thousands for the pleasure of having dinner with Jim Bunning, Tommy Lasorda and Haley Barbour. What a crew…
I actually did a research paper on special elections last year. Something interesting I observed in my findings was that, from 1968 through 2008, an incumbent party that has two or more net special election losses between Presidential elections loses the White House the next cycle. The sole exception to this pattern, as illustrated by Roll Call, was Bill Clinton in 1994 — and that could arguably be attributed to a kind of divided government effect of the Republicans having already taken control of the legislative branch.
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Tommy Lasorda is a republican? Man, wait till I tell my staunchly Democratic friend who loves Lasorda and the Dodgers about that.
I notice theres alot of Republican professional baseball players (Im not necessarily singling out Lasorda as Im not sure he was ever a professional player. Maybe just a minor league one for all i know). I would hope they are as pro-union for 99% of the rest of the unions as they are their own union. And for those who dont follow baseball (I use to alot more than i do now, i admit)…believe me, they think their own union is the most important thing the world has to offer. Im just hoping the Republicans in the MLB are also so-called ‘pro-union’ Republicans. And not just simply care about their own but ‘to hell with the working class’.
Jews are just as partisanly Democratic as they always were:
In other words, what Jewish Republicans?
I hope Cao’s constituents can show a little restraint and not literally “split” his head open, but rather do something more distracting and painful, like picket his office or vote him out in two years, respectively.