Maria CANTWIN, In Trouble?
Written by Mark Harris on June 30th, 2006WASHINGTON - US SENATE: US Senator Maria Cantwell (D) - 47%, insurance executive Mike McGavick (R) - 43%. (Strategic Vision-R).
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For a group that is intent on saving the GOP from the RINO mentality, boy have you missed the boat on this one!
I know you guys are thousands of miles away, but please do your homework. Don’t promote this one. He’s former chief of staff for one of the biggest RINOs of all, Slade Gorton. And he is following in his footsteps in this campaign, carrying all of the Washington RINO support with him. Help us save the GOP in the West too!
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Cantwell’s seat is the soft, unprotected underbelly of the DSCC’s national strategy. The GOP contender has not yet begun to really throw his financial resources into this contest, and the anger of Republican voters over the defeat of Dino Rossi is as yet untapped. Democrats underestimate the importance of the latter, for obvious reasons.
Democrats hope to flip five senate seats this cycle and are looking high and low for a sixth flip to knock the Senate out of GOP control. But even if they find such a sixth seat, control is still out of reach if the GOP flips Washington or Minnesota in the same cycle.
I think the Democratic Party can indeed take control of the Senate… in 2008. I doubt it can be done, in 2006.
Still, Senator Dole has proven to be an extraordinarily weak leader. If several states flip Blue in the 2006 cycle, much of the blame should be assigned to her for failing to recruit strong challengers in some of the states the Democrats should be fighting to protect this cycle.
Her own seat is up next time, and it won’t surprise me to see a spirited primary challenge to letting her keep it. If I were a conservative North Carolina voter, I’d be disgusted with her performance for the Party in a post of national responsibility.
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AM
I would like to note I supported Norm Coleman for NRSC chair over Liddy Dole, but alas…
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Conservatives wanted Susan Hutchison. But the WSRP pulled out all of the stops to shove her out of the race. As long as we keep supporting their choice, this will continue. You’ve got to think long term. A democrat incumbent will be much easier to beat than one of your own party with a conservative.