Looks like the first Black Republican Congresswoman will be coming from... Utah. With the next Congress, we could have at least 6 Black GOP House members (joining Col. West & Tim Scott, with 2 coming from NC & 1 from TX, if they win their primaries).
Wasn’t there a gent from TX who was once part of the TX Railroad Commission? He thinking of the Senate then decided against it.
She’s not related to Reggie Love though, right?
And she is quite easy on the eyes on top of everything else. Countdown to me being accused of sexism: 3...2...1
Hit the road, Hatch...
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Whenever I think of Mia Love, the song Come and Get Your Love gets into my head and just won’t leave. She should use it in campaign ads.
It won’t be an easy general election for Love, given that RAT Congressman Matheson has survived everything they’ve thrown at him, but the fact that most of the voters are new to Matheson and that Mitt Romney will carry the district in a landslide over Obama makes me bullish on her chances.
As for the number of black Republicans in the House next year, if it ends up being 6, it won’t be because two black Republicans will win in NC. Vernon Robinson has a good chance of winning the GOP nomination in NC-08 and then defeating RAT Larry Kissell in the general (although Robinson has pulled defeat from the jaws of victory before), but I don’t think that Bill Randall stands any chance of winning the NC-13 primary over George Holding or Paul Coble (who have each raised hundreds of thousands of dollars while Randall has raised less than $10,000). There’s Michael Wiliams in TX (with a tough primary but a slam dunk general if he wins the primary), incumbents Tim Scott of SC (shoo-in) and Allen West of FL (ight favorite in a marginal district), which would only get us to 5. But then there’s Paradise City, AZ Mayor Vernon Parker, who’s running in the new, open, marginal AZ-09. I would say that Parker is a slight favorite in the primary and a slight underdog in the general, but if the RATs nominate a moombatl (and I think they will) he could pull off the upset.
Color me surprised. Wimmer had piled up endorsements from the Club for Growth, GOA, Mike Lee, Ken Blackwell. I was expecting a primary.
Love must have good charisma.
In a recent poll she was just 3 points behind Matheson. This is one race where Romney is actually helpful. Time to put Matheson away.
Meanwhile Liljenquist forces old man Hatch into a primary.
There was a hilarious article I think it WA Post “How Hatch Beat Back a Tea Party Challenge” then it was changed to “How Hatch (Almost) Beat Back a Tea Party Challenge” after it was clear Hatch was in fact just short of 60%.
Liljenquist has been saying though that we won’t win the Senate, this in order to counter Hatch crowing about how he’d be a committee chair. He’s needs to lose that lousy tactic, that’s loser talk. Hatch is a lot tougher than the hapless Bennett.
Also the open 2nd district seat which featured a huge number of hopefuls saw Author and Air Force vet Chris Stewart win the nomination outright over a former State House Speaker.
There was some talk of hanky panky that sounds bogus to me.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsoutofcontext/53961776-64/stewart-hanks-clark-wallack.html.csp