Okay, admittedly, I am exaggerating with the title. McCain isn’t as bad as Chafee. Nobody is as bad as Chafee, but the fact that McCain would stump for him shows how out of touch with the average Republican McCain continues to be.
Senator Lincoln Chafee gets some help from Arizona Senator John McCain in his bid for re-election. McCain spoke to about 500 Chafee supporters yesterday at Chafee’s home in Exeter.
While smashing spending records and gaining early momentum, DeVos is reshaping Michigan’s political landscape in the 2006 election season with a personal mission closely linked to the nation’s most politically and culturally conservative niches………
………….. In fact, he and his family have been among the nation’s biggest donors to Republican and religious-conservative causes — a partisan generosity that could both reap returns for Dick DeVos’ candidacy and make him a very large target for Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s reelection team.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006606180605
This is a pretty large article and it goes on to state that Jennifer Granholm - D, current governor, is viewed to be the most vulnerable in the country right now. A poll earlier this month by EPIC/MRA of Lansing had DeVos ahead of Granholm 48% to 40%. This would be a key race for the GOP to pick up, especially to head into the 2008 Presidential election. Michigan has continued to just barely elude the Republicans as an electoral pickup.
These northern central states have been trending Republican since the beginning of the decade. Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas have slowly been abandoning their traditional Democrat roots. Putting these states in the corner of the GOP would be a big plus since confidence in the party has been slipping in key states like Ohio and Virginia.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. - Jean Paul Richter
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain