The KeyHouseRaces Candidate of the Day is Keith Fimian (VA-11)

KeyHouseRaces.com ^ | 26 October 2010 | Interceptpoint

[InterceptPoint]

The Key House Races "Candidate of the Day" thread will be posted daily up until Nov. 2 and feature a different candidate each day. Each of these candidates is in a Toss Up, Leans D, or Likely D race and represents one of the front line soldiers in the fierce battle for control of the U.S. House.

The DCCC and liberal special interest groups are pouring resources into these races and will continue to do so up until Nov. 2. Thousands of donations targeted toward the GOP candidates in competitive races will NEUTRALIZE the donations of these Democratic special interest groups. Targeted donations are KEY to the GOP taking back the House in November and derailing the Pelosi/Obama Express of failed economic policies, bailouts, higher taxes, and government takeovers.

If you want your donations to have the greatest impact, here's where to start. Click on the Republican candidate's name below to link to the website where you can make a donation.

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[InterceptPoint]

VA-11   Virginia District  11    Fimian (R) vs. Connolly (D)					Updated: Oct-19-2010
INCUMBENT	CHALLENGER	The District & The Race	YouTube - Recent Polls - Ratings - History
		Spotlight On: VA-11		Keith Fimian on YouTube
		MOST OF FAIRFAX COUNTY & PART OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY In 2008 Democrat Gerald Connolly, former chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, defeated Keith Fimian to win the VA-11 seat previously held for seven terms by Republican Tom Davis. This year will be a Connolly rematch with accountant and businessman Fimian who will focus his campaign on jobs, no new taxes and family values.	Fimian  (R)		%
			Connolly (D)		%
			Fimian (R)		%
			Connolly (D)		%
			Fimian (R)		%
Gerald Connolly (D)	Keith Fimian (R)		Connolly (D)		%
$2,160,041 Total	$2,197,600 Total		Avg-Presidential-Vote			D+2
$1,438,481 Cash	$1,066,798 Cash		KeyHouseRaces Rating			LEANS-D

[Bulwinkle]

Please!!!!! THIS is my district!!!!!

[advance_copy]

Connolly is such a dweeb.

[Thrownatbirth]

Fimian’s PR effort is way out in front of Connolly’s - rare for an 11th VA Repub. He’s got a great TV ad trashing Jerry, and the WaPo’s endorsement of Connolly as a “fiscal moderate” drew ridicule from readers.

[jboot]

We can only hope that Fimian will pull this off. I’m one district over (my congressman is Wolf (R), who is considered a safe seat). The district Fimian is fighting for is tough territory for Republicans nowadays. A johnny-come-lately mix of high income Asian immigrants and low income Central American immigrants now predominate the demographics. Both groups are reliable Donk voters and have been squelching the votes of the established locals for a decade. I think it is going to be a tough hill for Fimian to climb.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

As we head into counting on election night, these races all are in the states that close their polls at 7 PM.

If we envision the beach with various sand castles lined up in straight lines at various parts of the beach, if the water hits the first line it will mean X number of house seats to the GOP.

Below are four early polled races and what they likely tell us about the GOP wave:

Leans GOP — SC-5 / IN-9 — GOP will win the house ... 40+ seat gain

Tossup — GA-2 / GA-8 / KY6 — Looking at a 55 to 75 seat gain

Leans Dem — KY-3 ... looking at a gain of 75 to 90 seats

Likely Dem ... GA-12 looking at a gain of 90 to 120 seats

[CharlesWayneCT]

There has been NO independent polling of this race in months.

Connolly has a lot of money, and he and the DCCC has been spending lots of money on TV ads, and also on internet ads which follow me around on all the conservative sites where they do google ads.

I hope Fimian can pull this out. But there is just so little interest put on this race. On the other hand, the Fimian people actually canvassed my neighborhood this past weekend, which is the first time in a long time any candidate has bothered.

Neither candidate has mailed me any fliers — I think my vote is already taken for granted, so they are spending their money elsewhere (my daughter had to get the neighbor’s fliers for a government project at school).

[CharlesWayneCT]

And now it dawns on me that conservatives should register interest with all the democratic candidates they can, so the democrats send them fundraising letters and fliers and generally waste money communicating with them.