SSP Daily Digest: 9/8 (Morning Edition)

  • AK-Sen: On the topic of Lisa Murkowski’s declaration that she’s “still in this game” and her outreach efforts to a polite but seemingly unenthused Alaska Libertarian Party, The Mudflats sums up the situation pretty well:

       * She’s not technically in the race right now

       * She’s not out of the race

       * She’s not a quitter

       * She is who she is

       * She will likely not run as a Libertarian

       * She will likely not run as a write-in

       * She doesn’t know what she’s doing

  • NH-Sen: Businessman Bill Binnie is throwing down another $500K of his own money, with the GOP primary just a week in the way. Though ex-AG Kelly Ayotte leads in what little polling there’s been, I think this race is still up for grabs.
  • NV-Sen: The LVRJ has a detailed profile on Sharron Angle’s tumultuous years in the state Assembly, where votes in the 42-member body were often “41 to Angle.”
  • CO-Gov: Some Colorado Republicans are suing to try to knock Tom Tancredo off the ballot, saying his candidacy violates the American Constitution Party’s bylaws. Even if they’re right, I wonder if they have standing.
  • FL-08: Alan Grayson claims he raised half a million bucks in August, and says he has more than a million on hand, despite prepaying for a bunch of television advertising.
  • FL-24: GOPer Sandy Adams (and the NRCC, apparently) are touting a Public Opinion Strategies internal which has her leading Rep. Suzanne Kosmas 49-37.
  • HI-01: Colleen Hanabusa outraised Rep. Charles Djou in the pre-primary fundraising period, $330K to $206K. But Djou has slightly more cash on hand, $428K to $404K.
  • NY-14: Some Democrat she is. When asked by a reporter if she would vote for her opponent – not even endorse, just vote – in the general if she lost the primary, Reshma Saujani said she “didn’t know” whether she would pull the lever for Rep. Carolyn Maloney. I’ve been adamantly opposed to Saujani’s candidacy since I first learned about her, and with good reason. But this may be the most disgusting thing she’s said so far. How can I possibly trust the Democratic bona fides of someone who can’t even say if she’ll vote Democrat in her own district? And no, her campaign’s belated attempt to claim she’ll “vote a straight ticket” does not assuage me in the least. When the cameras were rolling and the pressure was on, Saujani admitted she wasn’t a team player. We don’t need people like her in Congress.
  • Turnout (PDF): According to data compiled by the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, the “average percentage of eligible citizens who voted in the primaries of each major political party” shows more a greater share of Republicans voting in primaries this year than Dems for the first time since 1930. Of course, 1930 was a pretty good year for Dems… but the trendlines are not inspiring.

    • SSP TV:

  • GA-Sen: GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson, not a guy you traditionally think of as being endangered (if you’ve ever even heard of him) touts his conservative record
  • NH-Sen: Paul Hodes compares Washington to… a hot dog eating contest
  • NV-Sen: Harry Reid continues to produce some of the best negative ads of the cycle
  • OH-Sen: We mentioned this ad in yesterday’s digest, wherein Lee Fisher sez: “Congressman Rob Portman knows how to grow the economy… in China!” Our update is that a GOPer says the buy is for $1.4 million and that the ad is running in Columbus and northern OH
  • FL-Gov: Alex Sink responds to Rick Scott’s attack ads, which she says are all about Obama, not Florida
  • CA-11: Jerry McNerney’s first ad, touting his support for veterans’ causes (I like that he has an actual veteran do the talking – much better than the usual candidate bragging or hackneyed voiceover)
  • CA-45: Dem Steve Pougnet is on the air with his first ad, kicking off a reported $100K/week TV & radio ad blitz from now through election day
  • CO-04: Betsy Markey has an anti-spending spot
  • NM-01: Republican Jon Barela has an ad complaining about the debt
  • NM-02: Harry Teague is up with his first ad of the cycle, a surprisingly authentic 60-second spot that’s worth watching
  • NM-02: Meanwhile, Americans for Job Security hits Teague over his vote for cap-and-trade (a “one-week” buy)
  • NY-02: If Steve Israel is worried enough to go up on the air….
  • VA-02: Glenn Nye touts his work to keep an aircraft carrier at Hampton Roads

    • 109 thoughts on “SSP Daily Digest: 9/8 (Morning Edition)”

    2. Disinterested means impartial, objective or neutral.  The Libertarian Party is anything but disinterested.  They have apparently decided that giving Murkowski their ballot line is not in their interest and are therefore uninterested in her overtures.

    5. Because the Senate and it’s secret holds and such, Angle could really run amok.

      A lot of these fringe candidates the GOP is running could really cause problems in the Senate – Paul, Miller, Buck, Rubio, Toomey, Johnson.  

      The senate needs to move to get rid of the secret hold and maybe chance the hold system altogether.  

    6. She has made plenty of enemies in her own party, and IMHO most everyone in the Nevada Republican establishment here is either sitting on one’s hands or becoming a “Republican for Reid”. Sharron Angle says all her loner votes means she’s “principled”, but her colleagues in the legislature didn’t see it that way… Especially when she voted against things like foreclosure assistance, a rental car tax in Clark County to pay for the Smith Performing Arts Center (Btw, she voted against this but voted FOR the Washoe County rental car tax to pay for the Reno Aces stadium… HUH??!!), and the 1999-2000 state budget (which cost much less than the 2005-06 state budget she voted FOR). Angle was just hard to work with, and that’s why hardly anyone in Carson City liked her.

      Add this to her 2006 primary against Dean Heller and Dawn Gibbons in NV-02, her 2008 primary challenge to State Senate GOP Leader Bill Raggio, and this year’s nasty primary against Sue Lowden, and it’s easier to see the BIG problem Angle has with her own party.

    9. Roy Herron is out with a new ad touting his record of being tough on crime and predatory lending. He also reiterates his pledge to cut “the spending” and create jobs. This ad could have been a lot better.

    14. Saw his web ad on the Teague ad link.  Wikipedia says he’s using the CT4L party line and trying to namespam onto the other party lines.

      Any idea which side he’d pull from?  Wikipedia also says he got 2% when he ran for a CT General Assembly seat in 2008.

    18. http://www.publicpolicypolling…

      What’s fascinating is I think their voter model is way off, with a massive oversampling of Republicans and undersampling of Independents. Currently, I’d peg this race at…

      GOP – 37%

      Independent – 32%

      Democrat – 31%

      Perry – 87/53/5 = 51%

      White – 13/47/95 = 49%

    19. http://capitaltonight.com/2010…

      BTW, NY1 hosted an Attorney General debate last night. Consensus among the analysts seemed to be front-runners Eric Schneiderman and Kathleen Rice actually fared the worst, with Sean Coffey performing strongest. I get the sense this is actually a complete jump-ball, with practically any of the candidates able to win. And, any of them could easily lose to the Republican nominee. So, predix here…

      Schneiderman – 30%

      Rice – 29%

      Brodsky – 18%

      Dinallo – 12%

      Coffey – 11%

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