Contested Senate Races, Polls and Links for Contributions

self research | 8-28-02 | patriciaruth

[patriciaruth]

Close, possible pickups: South Dakota, Missouri, Georgia and Minnesota.

Possible losses: New Hampshire, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina

If lightening strikes, may pickup: Iowa, New Jersey

South Dakota: John Thune, current Congressman, (articulate, affable, attractive in the recent debate with Johnson) running against Tim Johnson, current Senator.
Last poll: 40%-40% announced just before the debate

Link to www.johnthune.com

John Thune for South Dakota
P.O. Box 516
Sioux Falls, SD 57101

Minnesota: Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul, running against Paul Wellstone, current Senator.

Link to www.colemanforsenate.com

Coleman for U.S. Senate
1410 Energy Park Dr, Ste. 11
St. Paul, MN 55108-9865

North Carolina: Elizabeth Dole, former U.S. Transportation Secretary under Ronald Reagan and CEO of the American Red Cross, favored to win GOP primary, may be running against Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff. Primaries have been postponed to September 10 due to legal squabbling over redistricting. There will be no runoff primaries as a result.

Link to www.elizabethdole.org

Dole 2002 Committee
P.O. Box 2109
Salisbury, NC 28145-9982

New Hampshire: Current Senator Bob Smith is being challenged in the Republican primary by current U.S. Representative John Sununu, son of former Governor, who was ahead in last Republican primary poll I saw. Whoever wins will run weakened against current Democrat governor, Jean Shaneen.

(603) 641-9536 to call Sununu if he wins the primary on September 10.

Missouri: Jim Talent, former Congressman from St. Louis, against current Senator Jean Carnahan, who was appointed when her dead husband narrowly "won" in 2000 election against John Ashcroft.

Last Zogby poll: Talent 47%-46% Carnahan

Link to www.talentforsenate.com

Jim Talent for Senate
9433 Olive Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63132

Arkansas: Senator Tim Hutchinson challenged strongly by state attorney general Mark Pryor. Sen. Hutchinson, a former Baptist minister, is in trouble for reelection because of his divorce and remarriage after winning the Senate seat in 1996 on a platform of family values. He won his primary by 70% against another Christian conservative so the voters may be starting to forgive him.

Link to www.tim2002.com

Hutchinson for Senate
PO Box 998
Rogers, AR 72756

Georgia: U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss against Max Cleland, appointed Senator in 2000 by the Democrat governor when Republican Senator Coverdale died unexpectedly.

Texas: State Attorney General John Cornyn is running close in the polls to Democrat Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas. Current Senator Phil Graham is retiring. Democrat Kirk is getting lots of financial support from outside the state because he is black and because Democrats want to embarrass Bush in his home state of Texas.

Link to www.johncornyn.com

Iowa: U.S. Representative Greg Ganske is challenging current Senator Tom Harkin. Although he was behind in last poll, he may gain ground with the ad campaign in urban areas.

New Jersey: Doug Forrester (bio: former assistant state treasurer, now small businessman and university instructor) is running against Senator Robert Torricelli, who was acquitted by a jury but had a reprimand from the Senate Ethics Committee and may be vulnerable.
A poll in June had Torricell-44%, Forrester-36%.

Link to www.forrester2002.com

[patriciaruth]

For those who wish to make contributes to the candidates in some close Senate races, I am posting this information.

Please add new poll data or links/addresses to those candidates I couldn't find. And, of course, discussion will be lively and fun, too.

[patriciaruth]

ping.

[dead]

A poll in June had Torricell-44%, Forrester-36%.

It's practically September! The latest poll I saw had them in a dead heat, with 16% undecided.

[patriciaruth]

That's what I thought, since Torricelli had his censuring by the Senate ethics committee, but I couldn't find the results. Can you locate the exact poll and post it?
Thanks!!

[Hacksaw]

Thanks - Thune will be getting some cash from me.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Senator Robert Torricelli, who was acquitted by a jury but had a reprimand from the Senate Ethics Committee and may be vulnerable.

I don't think he was "acquitted by a jury"-- IIRC he was never charged at all.

[dead]

This poll is three weeks old:

TORCH, GOP FOE IN DEAD HEAT: POLL

I believe there has since been polls published that put Forrester firmly in front.

Torch is in a major battle. I’d say it’s a coin toss at this point.

The national GOP better start kicking in some major funds for the big push.

[KellyAdmirer]

Careful with your facts, Zell Miller was appointed to the open Georgia seat in 2000, not Max Cleland.

[patriciaruth]

I just made out a check and put it in an envelop for Thune. At his website there was no way to indicate the amount I wanted to contribute, so I couldn't do it by credit card.
Couldn't afford to go as high as $250, and wanted to give more than the next suggested lower amount of $100.

[patriciaruth]

Oh, wow! That's right! Wonder what article I was reading when I typed that last night?

[patriciaruth]

Thanks for the correction. I think you may be right that Torricelli was never brought to trial. Anyone have a link or a quote to get this straight?

[patriciaruth]

Okay, my hubby says that Zell Miller was appointed, but he is not up for reelection this time. Max Cleland holds the seat that Chambliss is contesting, so he is running against Cleland.

I keep thinking that stole a seat from us in Georgia when Coverdale died.

[Overtaxed]

Ping!

[Overtaxed]

Jim Snyder

[Kobyashi1942]

What? Last I saw was some knuckle head saying the Rep's would pick up 5 or 6 seats! Now we're lucky to have a draw?

[Darth Sidious]

That the only one you gave a link for under North Carolina was Elizabeth Dole shows how shallow the Republican Party has become.

Real conservative North Carolinians don't want her... no matter how much Bush and "the old boys" want her shoved down our throats.

You should have put Jim Snyder instead.

[marajade]

Elizabeth Dole stood up for Bush during the primaries... He's paying her back for her support... Any Republican is better...

[theophilusscribe]

Here's Saxby Chambliss' Web site: http://www.saxby.org/

[meyer]

If lightening strikes, may pickup: Iowa, New Jersey

I'm praying for lightning. Not to hit anybody, just to strike in such a way as to pick up Iowa and NJ.

[theophilusscribe]

Chambliss contact info:

Mailing Address
Chambliss for Senate, Inc.
P.O. Box 12469
Atlanta, GA   30355

Atlanta Office
Chambliss for Senate, Inc.
3224 Peachtree Road, N.E.
Atlanta,    30305

Phone: (404) 949-9688
Fax: (404) 949-1994