Judy Baker has raised 1.3 million to Blaine Luetkemeyers 596K (Luetkemeyer has amassed 1.7 million when self-funding is counted), but Luetkemeyer has had a much faster burn rate with his barrage of negative ads.
Luetkemeyer just dropped in another 200K to fund his campaign this weekend and has now self-funded 1.12 million.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzo…
Please donate to Judy Baker here to give her the chance to respond to Blaine Luetkemeyer’s latest negative ad buy:
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Democratic candidates whose faith is potentially an asset in winning over voters in conservative-leaning districts. The article features Judy Baker (MO-09) and Larry Kissell (NC-08).
http://online.wsj.com/article/…
During the primaries Judy Baker was dubbed as “too liberal” to win in the MO-09 and yet I have always felt that her biography and her Baptist faith allow her to connect with voters in the district and taht as many voters vote their identity rather than issues, she is an ideal liberal Democratic candidate for a deep red Bush +18 district like ours.
If you donate to Judy Baker at my webpage below, I’ll match you up to $300.
http://www.actblue.com/page/wa…
General Wesley Clark also has an ActBlue webpage for her:
http://www.actblue.com/page/3f…
Larry Kissell’s donation page is here:
Jame’s L. noted that Luetkemeyer’s camp had a deranged explosion response to Judy Baker having a small lead in the first general election poll of the MO-09 race.
The Luetkemeyer response is here:
“Judy Baker’s poll is like a NASCAR driver bragging about being ahead after the first lap of this weekend’s Sharpie 500, which in case Judy didn’t know is a car race enjoyed by ‘those people’ often derided by liberal Democrats like herself,” said Luetkemeyer spokesman Paul Sloca in a statement.
Of course the Luetkemeyer camp had egg on their face after swing state project pointed out that Baker cosponsored a bill that would name a stretch of road after local NASCAR racer Carl Edwards:
State Sen. Chuck Graham and state Rep. Judy Baker announced the plans to designate Route WW from Highway 63 to Olivet Road as “Carl Edwards Drive.”
Now to put the final topping on this funny story…the very driver that Judy Baker honored, won the Sharpie 500 that the Luetkemeyer camp was referring too 🙂
Baker has a 30% favorability to 8% unfavorabilty rating and has higher favorability than unfavorability even among Republican voters (especially Republican women).
Luetkemeyer’s favorability is 33% to 16% unfaovarbility.
This is a District that was Bush +19 in 2004 and that the Republican Hulshof won 61% to 36% in 2006.
The poll was a Baker internal poll conducted by Momentum Analysis. In the primaries Momentum analysis gave Baker a 6 point lead over Gaw in their only internal poll of the primary (she won by 13 in that race).
Full poll story here:
http://blogs.columbiatribune.c…
Donate to Baker at My ActBlue and I’ll match you (the first $400).
In the primaries Judy Baker raised over 400K mostly from individual donations, while Blaine Luetkemeyer self-funded over 325K and raised 140K from donations.
http://www.opensecrets.org/rac…
It appears that Luetkemeyer having secured a primary victory where both he and Onder self-funded over 325K and then rapidly spent that money in a negative ad blitz, is unable to continue pouring hundreds of thousands of his own money into the campaign.
He is now hoping that outside groups and the NRCC can help bankroll his campaign.
In the interview below he says that he is unlikely to continue self-funding.
See story and interview here:
http://blogs.columbiatribune.c…
The DCCC and NRCC have both entered the race, but Baker seems more prepared to continue to raise money from individual donors than Luetkemeyer whose primary funding was below expectations. If you take out self-funding, Luetkemeyer was actually outraised by non-serious primary candidate Danie Moore (as well as Bob Onder) in the last fundraising quarter and was outraised by Baker nearly 3 to 1 in the last quarter.
If Luetkemeyer is unable to self-fund he will need to pick up his fundraising pace considerably to keep pace with Baker.
This is a Lean Republican district but Judy Baker should be able to outraise Luetkemeyer and make it very competitive.
Please feel free to donate to Judy Baker at my ActBlue page below if you’d like to help her continue to outraise Luetkemeyer.
http://www.actblue.com/page/wa…
To double the effectiveness of any swing state donations, I’ll match all small donations on my page and all total donations this week on my page up to $400.
Remember Brock Olivo the football jock turned Republican pol who said he was qualified because “he had a social studies class.”
Well at last night’s Republican primary debate we found out what he learned in social studies class.
Asked by the debate moderator which founding father he most admired and why, he chose…drumrolll please……
Abraham Lincoln!
See video on this Kos diary here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
And if that wasn’t all, another leading Republican contender picked Ronald Reagan as their favorite founding father.
Meanwhile Judy Baker on the Democratic side of the MO-09 congressional race lead all House candidates in the nation in ActBlue fundraising last week and Steve Gaw finished in the top ten.
Fun times in the MO-09.
In yet another sign that Democrats are enthusiastic about taking over a long held Republican seat in the MO-09 house race, Judy Baker lead all US House candidates in the nation and was 3rd among all candidates (behind senate race candidates Noriega and Hagan) for ActBlue donations last week! (Also interestingly Steve Gaw another Democratic candidate from the 9th district squeaked into the top 10).
http://campaignnewswire.blogsp…
In a race where Republican frontrunner Bob Onder has already mistakenly released his Q2 fundraising numbers and raised only 89K, Judy Baker and Steve Gaw are posting strong numbers on ActBlue. Given that Judy Baker has raised approximately 100K on ActBlue alone she is almost certain to come in ahead of Onder’s numbers for the second quarter.