SSP Daily Digest: 4/13 (Morning Edition)

  • CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer says she raised $2.4 million in Q1, with $8.7 mil on hand. GOPer Tom Campbell raised $1.6 mil. No word yet from the other Republicans.
  • NC-Sen: Cal Cunningham is launching his first TV ad, in introductory spot. Apparently the buy (so far) is just $45K. Separately, Cunningham told the AP that he doesn’t support the card check provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act, despite apparently telling a Teamsters official that he does. Still, the Teamsters are standing by their endorsement of Cunningham.
  • AL-07: Collingwood Research for Shelia Smoot (3/30-4/1, likely Democratic primary voters):

    • Shelia Smoot (D): 33

    Earl Hilliard Jr. (D): 28

    Terry Sewell (D): 12

    Martha Bozeman (D): 6

    Undecided/other: 20

    (MoE: 4%)

  • FL-24: Steak baron Craig Miller says he raised $340K in his first two months in his race to unseat Dem Rep. Suzanne Kosmas. There’s still a very competitive GOP primary to contend with, though.
  • MA-04: Surprise, surprise: Laura Ingraham is full of shit. The wingnut radio hostess tweeted some b.s. “rumor” that Barney Frank was going to retire. Frank did not hesitate to call Ingraham’s post a “lie.”
  • NY-14: Reshma Saujani raised $400K in Q1 in her bid to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic primary. Maloney, however, raised $475K and has $2 million on hand.
  • PA-12: Joe Biden, who is originally from Pennsylvania, will return to the state of his birth later this month to campaign for Dem Mark Critz in the upcoming PA-12 special election.
  • PA-17: Another Pennsylvania ballot challenge, this time against Dem Sheila Dow-Ford, has come undone in the courtroom. Dow-Ford is challenging Rep. Tim Holden in the primary.
  • DCCC: D-Trip Chair Chris Van Hollen was a busy man over the congressional recess. In addition to mucking up the HI-01 special election, he also campaigned for Reps. Leonard Boswell, Steve Kagen (twice), Mark Schauer and Gary Peters.
  • Polltopia: Voting is now open in PPP’s next pick-a-poll. I don’t think we’ve tried to freep these before, but come on, people – don’t you want to see a poll of PA-12?
  • WATN?: Former NM-01 Rep. Heather Wilson is being treated for thyroid cancer. We wish her a speedy recovery. Meanwhile, ex-Rep. Jim Saxton (NJ-03) has joined up with – you’ll never believe it – a DC lobbying firm. It never ends.
  • Babka: Did you know that Green’s babkas are so dense that airport x-ray scanners cannot see through them? Extra density = extra deliciousness – and, apparently, good insulation against high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. If only Lex Luthor had known!

    • 55 thoughts on “SSP Daily Digest: 4/13 (Morning Edition)”

    2. Today is the runoff in TX-17 GOP primary between Rob Curnock, the 2008 GOP nominee who performed better than expected against Chet Edwards, and Bill Flores, local businessman and self-funder.  

    3. Miller really only raised $130k, as the rest was self-funding.

      Also, the New Jersey filing deadline passed yesterday. Republicans recruited yet another moneybags candidate, local newspaper baron Diana Gooch (well, semi-local, she lives in NJ-12), to take on Frank Pallone. I doubt she has much of a chance, but she could force Pallone to spend the $4 million he has in the bank. This is in addition to the other self-funder, Scott Sipprelle, they’re sending in against Rush Holt. Thanks for striking down the Millionaire’s Amendment, SCOTUS!

    4. They wish. Talk about megalomania. Jeez, the GOP wins one low-turnout special in Massachusetts because the Dem candidate was completely incompetent (as has been the case with off-year MA races since Scott Brown was in diapers), and they actually think that they, not Coakley, were the reason Brown won.

      I’ve lived in that district. Barney Frank hasn’t won with less than 68% of the vote in the last decade on those years that he’s been challenged at all, and he’ll probably stay in office until he dies. The likes of Fox meddling here will just make him win with an even bigger plurality.

      Morans.  

    6. Heckman received 38% of the vote against the retiring John Linder, the second-best performance amongst Democratic challengers that year, behind Bobby Saxon in GA-10.  This is Georgia’s most vulnerable Republican-held district in terms of PVI.

      http://www.onlineathens.com/st…

    7. About a year or so ago, I argued that the Democrats should not throw Lieberman out of its caucus.  I want everyone to know that my opinion was wrong.

      http://politicalwire.com/archi…

      It wouldn’t hurt my feelings at all if Lieberman was not allowed to caucus with the Democrats anymore.  I’m usually loyal to a fault, but its time to draw the proverbial line in the sand and let him join the Republicans in fact instead of just “reality”.

    8. “I don’t think we’ve tried to freep these before, but come on, people – don’t you want to see a poll of PA-12?”

      No, there will be many polls on this race heading up to the special election. I think we should go for New Hampshire, where they’d poll four races instead of one.  

    9. The reason SSPers don’t do freeping is that we’re not mindless drones who will do whatever you say. Meaning: sorry, I voted for Arizona. 😉  I just really want to see McCain get more nervous.

      Also! Someone should send Michelle Bachmann a babka hat.  

    10. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36…

      It would have been ugly right now.

      Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents.

    11.        

                   1st Q         COH

      McMaster     $430,000       $1.4m

      Bauer        $398,000       $1.4m

      Barrett      $393,000       $1.6m

      Haley        $192,000       $0.53m

      Nikki Haley’s fundraising isn’t great but it should be enough for her to launch a proper campaign. I just really hope some more national Republicans get on her side and endorse her. I really think that with support she could be the next Rubio.

    13. Partly just for you David, partly because the others we’ve seen plenty of polls for already.

    14. http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmsp…

      First of all, many survey participants – particularly Japanese-Americans – will say they are undecided when they are questioned about their voting preferences.

      snip

      “Let’s say there is 15 to 20 [percent] undecided, I would cut that in half in favor of Hanabusa,” Boylan said.

      The DCCC poll was 32-32-27-9 (Djou/Case/Hanubasa/Undecided)

      If Boylan is correct, the three candidates were actually tied in the DCCC poll.  

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