"It's good news. The Rats think they can win on ideology.
Wont work in Southern Arizona."
I hope you're right, but, according to this, Graf is/was 19 points behind
NRCC pulls Graf ads in Arizona
thehill.com ^ | September 22, 2006 | Aaron Blake
Posted on 09/22/2006 12:07:50 PM PDT by VU4G10
National Republicans are pulling advertising in Arizona for 8th District GOP nominee Randy Graf, who last week won his party’s primary but is trailing by nineteen points in a general election poll released Tuesday by his Democratic challenger.
A spokesman for the Tucson ABC affiliate, where ads were reserved, confirmed that the party committee was pulling them.
The Arizona Democratic Party on Wednesday accused Graf of "associating himself" with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, citing a posting on Duke’s website but offering no evidence of an actual relationship.
On Thursday, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) sent a letter to the media addressed to National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y). In it, he cited Graf’s "ties" to Duke and called on the NRCC to stop supporting Graf.
An NRCC spokesman said it has paid for ads on behalf of Graf that are scheduled to run through Oct. 3, but declined to say what it would do beyond that date, citing a policy against discussing campaign strategy. The spokesman reiterated the NRCC’s full support for Graf.
Reynolds responded to Emanuel in a letter arguing that Duke’s posting didn’t amount to an endorsement and detailing several Democratic donors and candidates with criminal pasts or "radical views."
Rest of article and thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706495/posts
Yah, he's wrong.
The Dems are pulling out because they know they don't need them to win.
Graf is the darling of the one-issue-immigration crowd, but he has little appeal outside of that crowd.
I hope he wins, but I wouldn't bet the rent on it. For that matter, I wouldn't bet $5 on it either.