Boswell is in the GOP’s ‘Top 3′
October 16th, 2006 at 12:17pm Geraldine
We had a lot of bloggers at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner over the weekend, but because this week is an academic break for us, I’m not sure when we’ll post about that. I did think this was worth mentioning, though:
Yesterday, the Times ran a piece identifying what the GOP considers its best “pickup” opportunities — that is, seats held by Democrats that the Republicans could win. Because of the political climate, there are only three of them that they’re devoting resources to, and one of them is you-know-who:
For Republicans, the vast majority of that money has gone to protecting incumbents. The party is on the offensive in races for three seats: two held by Democrats, Representatives Leonard L. Boswell of Iowa and Jim Marshall of Georgia, and one being vacated by Representative Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont who typically voted with the Democrats.
Perhaps the other notable point made in the article is that the GOP has all but given up on Ohio. Those Grinnell students out there from Ohio (and there are a lot of you), keep this in mind: the Republicans have written off the DeWine campaign and the Blackwell campaign, and are pulling their resources from the state.
The decision about Mr. DeWine’s seat came after recent internal polls showed Mr. DeWine’s Democratic challenger, Representative Brown, jumping to a large lead. Mr. Brown’s surge came despite a barrage of Republican advertisements intended to portray him as weak on national security — the very line of attack that had given party officials confidence earlier this year that Mr. DeWine would be re-elected.
Normally, a party would be averse to scaling back its help for a senator in a state with as many as five competitive Congressional races also on the ballot. But in this case, Ohio Republicans said, Mr. DeWine and Republican Congressional candidates face the added problem of being dragged down this November by the party’s candidate for governor, J. Kenneth Blackwell, who polls show is facing a double-digit loss to the Democrat, Representative Ted Strickland.
If you’re from Ohio but live in Grinnell and have been on the fence about whether to vote here or there, you know what to do.
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1. Iowa Progress » The&hellip | January 19th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
[…] As the Des Moines Register notes, Leonard Boswell has now come out against the proposed troop increase in Iraq. Although it’s not exactly a news headline that a Democrat has come out against the war, Boswell is part of the broader coalition of moderate to conservative Democrats who Republicans have needed to accomplish anything even moderately bipartisan in recent years. Considering a lot of the rhetoric that Boswell used on the campaign trail, this isn’t exactly a surprise but it just further reflects what little support that there now is for the Iraq War on Capital Hill and throughout the country. Even only last year, it would be surprising if someone who was one of the three most targeted incumbent Democrats in the past election took this dovish a stance. While, outside of the White House and John McCain’s house, it’s hard to find someone who supports the war. It’s a sign of how much times have changed and of how bad things in Iraq have become. […]
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