(2) The Gerlach campaign was, as far as I know, the only one to have followed my advice to use MoveOn.org's record of welcoming hate speech at its Action Forum to damage his MoveOn-backed opponent.
The Daily Kos was in fact bleating about Gerlach using my material, as shown here. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/27/162356/97
"Guilt by association seems a favorite tactic of Gerlach as he labels Murphy a radical based on her support from groups including MoveOn.org."
And it worked, noting that Murphy's problem was not that MoveOn.org supported her. Her problem was her refusal to reject its support.
When your enemies scream and whine about how what you are doing is horrible and unfair, it means you are doing your job. It seems that I did mine in at least one Congressional race, although the failure of other Republicans to exploit this opportunity (particularly Santorum) resulted in their defeats. I am in fact grateful to the Daily Kos for affirming my role in demolishing at least one MoveOn.org Democrat.
congrats!
One small piece of good news from the election. Watch the Dem. claim vote fraud.
That's a big one. She was left wing all the way, and I think the media had declared her the winner.
Sad thing is we managed to save several of the most endangered, and then lost a bunch of "safe" seats, sometimes with people who had money in the bank they were saving to discourage challenges in the future, or to use for political payoffs to gain better positions.
His district is in Chester County and Berks County, which used to be very, very Republican. But we are seeing a lot of liberals move into this area from Philly and adjoining suburbs. It would have been especially bad (to me, at least) if he would have lost. And embarassing, to have a lib representing this mostly conservative district.
Murphy ran some lying ads about pay raises and body armor votes and she was forced to pull them, but it was 2 or 3 weeks out from the election and damage got done.
murphy worked with naral too. this was a good win for the gop.
Gerlach and Shays both ran against the tide because the dems ran in two consecutive elections backward candidates.
The voters sent a message we didn't like them the first time. Lois Murphy and Farrell couldn't do better than they did in 04 with a much better enviornment which shows you how bad they were as candidates.
Thanks for the good news!
According to the local news this race has still not been called. Anyone know what the deal is on this race?