• NH-Sen: Joe Biden will be on duty to help Paul Hodes (who hasn’t set the world on fire with his fundraising so far) at a DC fundraiser on Oct. 5.
• SC-Sen: Democrats appear to have a candidate with some financial heft to take on Sen. Jim DeMint next year. The Indigo Journal writes that Rock Hill attorney Chad McGowan recently told local Democrats that he’ll be running full-time for the Senate nomination beginning in early October. (J)
• CA-Gov: Looks like the period of meditation on the Governor’s race that Jerry Brown promised us didn’t take very long: he’s opening his exploratory committee today. Meanwhile, Meg Whitman managed to poach another member of the Steve Poizner camp; former state GOP chair and former Assembly minority leader Bob Naylor dropped his Poizner endorsement and switched to Whitman.
• NJ-Gov: Yet another pollster sees the same story developing in New Jersey (this time it’s Quinnipiac). The race is tightening to within the margin of error, but it’s not because Jon Corzine is getting much better (he’s still not breaking 40); instead, Chris Christie is slowly deflating, while moderate independent Chris Daggett gains. Today’s poll has Christie up 43-39-12, a definite improvement over last month’s 47-37-9.
• VA-Gov: Creigh Deeds is finally playing one of his aces in the hole: Sen. Mark Warner, who generally polls as by far the most popular political figure in the state, cut an ad for Deeds and will be campaiging for him on weekends. Deeds also got an endorsement which, superficially, seems like a big coup, but isn’t, really: former GOP governor Linwood Holton. (The moderate Holton is father-in-law to Tim Kaine and endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.)
• NH-02: It looks like ex-Rep. Charlie Bass is getting off the fence and moving closer to an effort to reclaim his old seat, which he lost to Paul Hodes in 2006 but will be an open seat in 2010. He’ll be opening his exploratory committee tomorrow. (Although — maybe this is a possible sign of ambivalence — he says he’s opening the committee because he needs somewhere by quarter’s end to put all the unsolicited checks he’s received lately, or else he’ll have to return them.) He’ll probably still face a primary against the more conservative 2008 candidate, Jennifer Horn, assuming he runs.
• NY-23: As expected, Gov. Paterson has set Nov. 3rd for the NY-23 special election, the same day as other elections in the state (such as the NYC mayoral race), and of course the gubernatorial races in NJ and VA. GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava also got an endorsement that falls into the “as expected” category: from the Main Street Partnership, the ideological caucus for the dwindling ranks of moderate House Republicans.
• PA-04, 08: Two sophomore Democrats in Pennsylvania both got Republican challengers. In the Pittsburgh suburbs’ R+6 4th, Keith Rothfus, a Republican lawyer and former Dept. of Homeland Security official, will challenge Rep. Jason Altmire. (Apparently the NRCC’s top recruit, state House minority whip Mike Turzai, has been balking so far.) Meanwhile, in the less challenging 8th in the Philly burbs, computer consultant Jeffrey Schott is slated to run against Rep. Patrick Murphy.
GA-Sen: We officially have a candidate: http://www.rockdalecitizen.com…
GA-12: Barrow getting challenges left and right:
http://savannahnow.com/news/20…
http://savannahnow.com/news/20… (well that one’s actually a potential challenge, but she’s leaning toward it.)
I’m waiting patiently for polls to show Corzine, and Deeds having leads, but time is beginning to run out for them.
for Deeds. I still am wondering where the hell the guy was during the summer when the going got tough for Creigh but better late than never I guess. Also, where’s Jim Webb? He’s an extremely well-respected Democrat and would definitely help Deeds with the military crows down in Hampton Roads. Why is he still silent on this? I think if you’re a popular politician it’s your responsibility to go help out a fellow party member in your state’s gubernatorial, especially ifthere would be no travel conflict with Virginia being right next to Washington.
(and VA & NJ of course) there’s also the CA-10 special general election that day.
Not much suspense there, though…
if she opposes health insurance reform, dus to Mainers overwhelmingly support of it.
http://politicalwire.com/archi…
http://www.democracycorps.com/…
At least they apparently still have sane Republicans up in the north.
We have former Republican moderates endorsing Deeds, what is Wilder’s big shitfest? He won off the support of lots of moderate rural white Dems like Deeds. I don’t know why he can’t be a party player.
Let’s discuss him here, in a more appropriate thread than the Community Trust thread. Have a look at how I’m dealing with some unstrategic liberals on DailyKos:
He’s right about “die quickly,” but…
I’m MichaelNY there, as Pan was taken when I signed up.
The brief version is that I was with Grayson when he said the Congressional Republicans’ health plan was “Don’t get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly,” but when he said on CNN that the Republicans are “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals,” I thought he was stupid and likely to lose his reelection campaign.
In a marginal district, if you’re going to be a liberal firebrand, at least do so respectfully. I think he may have a better future in talk radio.