Posted on 06/24/2005 9:21:40 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.VA.)in recent weeks has met with Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), fuelling further speculation that the Republican Congesswoman will challenge Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) next year.
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ANYBODY BUT byrd !!! You go girl!!!
I'd support her.
Let's hope it happens and encourage it however we can!
Let's hope it happens and encourage it however we can!
Of course, if she jumps in, who do we get to run for her seat ?
May the Force be with her....
Isn't someone already running against Byrd. I recall, he was a veteran and served in afghanistan
If the dems have to pour money into this race, they are dead in the water.
If you got to spend money and be competitive with "safe seats", there is no way in hell you can hope to win competitive seats.
Even Soros at some point is going to want results for his cash....Then again, he seems to have now focused on Ohios governors race and is becoming indifferent to everything else.
Hiram Lewis.
I think this is a mistake. She may win, but this is no sure thing. I would actually say the odds are against her. A loss would set back her rising political career, and otherwise jeopardize the great progress Republicans have made in this state.
By DICK MORRIS
Here's good news to the cause of good government. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, styled by partisan Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" and by those who are less biased as the last troglodyte in the body, could be defeated in his bid for his umpteenth term in the Senate.
He's up for election in 2006 and the latest polling in West Virginia indicates that an attack of sanity and judgment may, at last, be hitting an electorate that has routinely elected the 87-year-old Byrd to the Senate eight times with never less than 59 percent of the vote. A survey by RMS Strategies, a West Virginia firm, shows Byrd barely ahead of Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, 46-43 percent.
Byrd, who still boasts a 62-28 favorable-unfavorable ratio, may have met his match and master in Capito, who has a statewide rating of 57-35.
While the West Virginia electorate remains 56-32 Democrat over Republican, it is also conservative as opposed to liberal by 67-30. (The survey likely includes moderates among the 42 percent who style themselves "somewhat conservative.")
Nevertheless, West Virginia went for President Bush by 56-43 in 2004 and 52-46 in 2000, and voters who back the GOP nationally are getting less and less forgiving of their Demo-cratic representatives and senators in Congress.
Hiram Lewis - a lawyer and Iraq veteran - has indicated an intent to run against Sheets.
Totally disagree. The fact that we would put up a strong challenger to Byrd is a big sign that we are doing well in the state, and if we fail to make moves like that, it'll become like ND where it goes R for President and D for everything else. In a time where the Dems will filibuster just about anything and everything, that is not acceptable.
Not to mention, I think she may well win. Longserving incumbents on their last run haven't done well. Hollings barely won his last term, and Bill Roth got annahilated in 2000.
Do you actually have any evidence for this, or do you just like saying stuff?
It would be nice to have another Republican senator but having the doddering and decrepit Byrd there in the Senate does a remarkable amount of good for the Republicans too.
?3+����?Pbout this... if she was to be elected and ended up with the same perks as Kleagle Byrd, West Virginia might get such formidable new facilities as "The Shelley Moore Capito Memorial International Airport Passenger Terminal," or "The Shelley Moore Capito Parkway Alternate Business Bypass." Even WV has got to have a finite number of Scotchlite letters for highway signs.
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