Cross posted at Daily Kos
Ohio Daily Blog and the Cleveland Plain Dealer are reporting that Lt. Governor Lee Fisher has fired his campaign manager, Geri Prado, and replaced her with Jay Howser, who had worked on the campaigns of Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Mary Landrieu (D?-LA).
The reason for the Fisher fizzle is no mystery. Despite raising massive amounts of money and endorsements, Fisher has not caught fire with the electorate, especially the Democratic primary electorate. With more than one poll showing Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, despite being at an enormous fundraising disadvantage, polling better in the general election against former Bush official Rob Portman, Fisher has seen his poll numbers slide slowly over time as people nationally began to realize that Jennifer Brunner’s grassroots campaign might prevail in the primary.
Fisher has also received numerous critical stories in the Washington Post over what it called a less than impressive campaign and his tapping dry his donor base has lead to a leveling off of his fundraising, the Fisher campaign is struggling to project the inevitable frontrunner status it declared in the fall.
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Seriously, put your own shop in order guys.
…but a shoestring isn’t going to win the general. Prove to the DSCC you can raise funds and they will backoff. Otherwise the DSCC is doing what they are supposed to. Help the strong and weed out the weak so we have the best shot we can in Novemeber.
I really don’t see what he has done to anger the left so much. I mean I love to see women in the Senate, but how is Brunner going to be any better than Fisher in the Senate? Plus he is out fundraising her, and while they poll similar now, it is mainly because they are not that well known. I just don’t see what Brunner has to offer that Fisher does not have. When Brunner ran she turned the SoS seat from safe to a toss up. Brunner neads to raise funds if she really wants to be serious. Brunner show me the money!!!!!
Why is it so bad? We have a Lt. Gov. and a SOS in a tossup race, you’d think they’d be competitive.
I was so expecting something about Fisher flipping to being against same-sex marriage or something else.
Just because he change his staff doesn’t necessarily mean he will shift his policy.