Inside Politics: Daschle's frustration / Torricelli's numbers/ Ventura's mistake

Washington Times ^ | 6/20/02 | Greg Pierce

[kattracks]

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle yesterday sounded as if the consuming task of fund raising might discourage him from pursuing the presidency in 2004.

Asked if he had finished reading "Master of the Senate," a book about former Senate Majority Leader and President Lyndon Johnson, Mr. Daschle said he was struck by how little of the 1,200-page book is devoted to fund raising.

[Brandon]

Mr. Torricelli, who chaired the Democratic National Senatorial Committee during the 2000 election, led Republican challenger Douglas Forrester 44 percent to 36 percent in a Quinnipiac University poll conducted a week after New Jersey's June 4 primary election. Twenty percent of voters were undecided.

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The poll showed 37 percent of voters with negative opinions about the Democratic incumbent, while 35 percent viewed him favorably and 28 percent were undecided, Reuters reports.

This is big news. An incumbent who gets less than 50% on the reelect question is in trouble. Any candidate whose negatives are higher than his positives is also in trouble. The combination could be deadly for the Torch.

[Lancey Howard]

"We will miss him nonetheless, and not just as great copy. Anyone who is despised by the likes of Garrison Keillor can't be all bad. He was willing to serve his state and to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous reporters. For all of his bombast and eccentricity, Mr. Ventura represented the kind of non-career politician the country needs more of."
- - Wall Street Journal editorial.

More like Jesse?
He "surrounded himself with 'new' Democratic advisers", "reverted to politics as usual, and proposed a variety of tax increases", and staked a claim to the squishy, spineless, "middle".
What on earth was the Wall Street Journal thinking?

Later, Jesse - - don't let the door smack you in the butt.

[Lancey Howard]

Any candidate whose negatives are higher than his positives is also in trouble. The combination could be deadly for the Torch.

Don't get your hopes up - - this is New Jersey we're talking about. That place is shot. It's a liberal sewer, owned and operated by the teachers union, and corrupt to the core.
Torch will be reelected.

[brat]

We need to encourage this guy to run.....and when he loses.....LOL