Posted on 10/01/2010 6:30:20 AM PDT by curth
Dale Glading just might be going to Washington after all.
Glading, the Executive Director of the Saints Prison Ministry and GOP 2008 candidate for New Jersey’s 1st District House Seat is again the GOP “David” to the Democratic incumbent “Goliath” Rob Andrews in 2010. The difference is that this time David has some smooth stones and a sling and Rob Andrews has a big head that should make for an easy target.
The Courier-Post and other local media don’t consider the race “competitive” and yet both internal polling by the Glading campaign and a recent Accu poll conducted by Spaeth and Associates University say otherwise.
Glading’s poll put him at 28% and Andrews at 22% with a whopping 46% undecided and 4% voting for the whack-job third party loons. The Accu Poll found Glading leading Andrews 31% to 22% with 44% undecided.
While it is true that Glading and Andrews have a long way to go with 44-46% of the electorate undecided at this point, but that only spells good news for Glading. Rob Andrews has been the elected representative for the 1st District for 20 years. If voters are still undecided about him at this point in the game, the vast majority of those undecideds are going to break for Glading or stay home. Given that Andrews is already starting 6-9 points behind Glading before those folks make their minds up, this should be a huge warning sign for Andews.
Additionally, Governor Chris Christie’s strong showing in this district where his margin of defeat to Corzine in the Camden County portion of the district was much smaller than expected and where he actually won Gloucester County (a county that went for Corzine in 2005 and Obama in 2008) should give Andrews, member in good standing of the Washington elite, cause for concern.
Glading’s passionate support from the various factions of the Tea Party and recent media appearances on national media such as Bill Bennett’s morning radio show paint an electoral scenario that is nothing short of revolutionary. Indeed, Glading’s events have been well attended with over 100 people showing up at several of the most recent events (a feat unheard of in local GOP politics.)
Camden and to a lesser extent, Gloucester County, have long been held captive by ineffective and nefarious leadership by the corrupt Democratic elites. Without regard for their constituents, these grifters have padded their wallets and spent tax money like drunken sailors in a blatant attempt to grow the size of government and keep the gravy train running on schedule for supporters and family members.
Glading’s recent event handing out free pork sandwiches highlighted the pork-laden governing philosophies of Rob Andrews and the Democratic establishment.
The good folks of America are waking up. Dale Glading’s campaign is becoming a grassroots movement. To understand the success of the Glading campaign thus far, you need to look no further than the Andrews town hall meeting at Rowan University in the height of the healthcare debate.
The meeting was well attended and the vast majority of those in attendance begged and pleaded with Rob Andrews to discard the “fundamental socialist change” of the healthcare industry. Andrews spent the meeting spewing half truths, twisting the wording of the bill, and outright lying to his constituents.
Since then, Andrews has largely been MIA. Obama’s radical community organizing folks threw him a party a while back to thank him for his efforts in writing the Obamacare bill in the House. Andrews and Obama had to sense to hold the party outside of his district to minimize the media attention given it.
In recent days, Andrews, one of the co-authors of the wildly unpopular healthcare legislation which turns out to be a bigger disaster each passing day as new hidden provisions crawl out of the legalese woodwork of the bill like the dastardly stink bugs infesting the region, has vowed to run on his healthcare credentials.
He told The Courier-Post that he was “proud” of his record on healthcare, saying,"I do plan to run on health-care reform, although I plan to run the hardest on what my constituents care about -- which is jobs."
He then went on to spin another fantastical yarn about how great his plan is for small business owners. This is in direct contrast to his interview on Air America in 2009 where he admitted in a moment of socialist euphoria to his emotionally unstable liberal radio host that the plan was designed to get rid of for-profit healthcare and create a government-run single payer system. (This interview was recorded the same time as the town hall meeting where he boasted of the plan’s goal being fostering market-based competition.)
Politically tone-deaf these days as most of his Washington elite ruling class peers are, Andrews seems to think that his authorship of the radical socialist Obamacare healthcare bill and his success in securing various pork projects for the region will help fuel him to victory.
This, despite the fact that thousands upon thousands of every day Americans are showing up to rallies and fueling common sense conservatives to victories in primaries and elections that they have no business winning.
The American people, and indeed the good people of New Jersey, are in no mood for increased dependency on the federal government, out-of-control spending, and socialized medicine. They also don’t like the smug attitude of career politicians like Andrews, who created this mess and then lecture us on their vastly superior understanding of the issues. Andrews has been on record multiple times with local and national media stating that the only principled reason anyone could oppose his healthcare bill is because they didn’t explain it well enough to us.
In other words, he is of the mindset like Obama and the other menacing liberal overlords in D.C. that if only they used more one-syllable words for simpletons like us, then we’d get on board and understand what treasures we have in these career politicians.
Andrew’s condescension and open disdain for the implied stupidity of his constituents is a stark contrast with Glading’s humble “servant-leadership” approach to government. Glading’s sunny approachability is the polar opposite of the hard-to-reach elitism of Congressman Andrews.
Andrews has largely ignored Glading. Other than a joint appearence on the Courier-Post website with Glading and two third party loons, Andrews has refused to engage in debate with Glading on the issues. This is because on every issue imaginable the American people are on the side of the common sense solutions supported by Dale Glading. And it’s not even close. The margins in most national polls favor Glading’s positions on the major issues of the day by 2 or 3 to 1 over Andrew’s government-centric socialist worldview.
Perhaps once upon a time Rob Andrews was a good guy. Perhaps there was a time that he would take his constituents concerns seriously. Two decades in the swamp of Washington have taken their toll. Andrews has drifted further and further to the left in his governing philosophies and is now virtually indistinguishable from Nancy Pelosi.
Finally, it isn’t just the positions and demeanor of Glading that indicate a major upset in this contest. There is also the passion factor. The Tea Party folks have demonstrated time and time again this year that they are fired up like we haven’t seen since 1980, 1984 or 1994. The Obama-Pelosi-Andrews folks simply cannot match the level of enthusiasm that the tea party has even if all the dead people in Camden vote (as they are known to do around these parts as a decidedly committed portion of the Democratic base.)
The polling, the political moment and destiny seem to be colliding to bring Dale Glading to Washington. I for one, intend to march with him.
Andrews is one of the few Dems not running from Øbama. In fact he is proud to tell the world that he is one of the authors of Øbamacare . He is a lacky for the Øbama , Reid and Pelosi agenda and is simply someone who has been in office way too long. We got rid of Corzine, now let’s get rid of this leech. Spread the word about Dale Glading NJ-1.
I am not sure that an incumbent polling at 22% a month before Election Day has EVER been re-elected. Anyone know?
It's hard enough for an incumbent to survive polling at 45%.
Well, it is Gladings internal polling. So take it for what it is.
Wrong, Accu poll conducted by Spaeth and Associates University agree with Gladings internal polling.
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