WP 4/13/06 “Democratic Contenders”
I am not sure why they call IA4 a “swing district.” Tom Latham has been in congress since 1994. He was re-elected in 2004 with 64% of the vote.
Posted on 05/12/2006 1:19:33 PM PDT by LS
I have taken several polls, including, in 2004, a Mason-Dixon poll. Even MD, a very accurate poll, asked loaded questions. It had me rank issues in order of how important I thought they were, and "Iraq" and "War on Terror" were separate. Well, when I saw the results of this, predictably, "the economy" or something else was the "top issue," but if you COMBINED "Iraq" and "War on Terror" as I thought more realistic, by far it was the most important issue. But this allowed the Dems to say that their platform on the economy was what "people were interested in."
Tom Latham is very safe.
I don't think Andrew Horne has a lock on the Dem nomination. John Yarmuth has been running more ads for a longer period of time.
You can believe what you like, but THIS conservative is not GIVING his vote to anyone that is a RINOcrat, just as bad as a democrat in my opinion. But, maybe even WORSE in that they try to hide in the conservative movement with their liberal views.
We shall see in November I guess.
"You can believe what you like"
It was not a matter of opinion, I was just citing the many conservative things that HAVE been accomplished by the Republicans in Congress.
"THIS conservative is not GIVING his vote to anyone that is a RINOcrat"
The Republicans I will be voting for in November, Congressman Lamar Smith, Gov Rick Perry, Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison, have conservative records and deseve Republican support for sure.
I dont live in Maine or Rhode Island or in other RINO habitat, so I dont have that dilemma that some have.
Your mileage may vary.
We are obviously not talking about the SAME Congress. You must be watching old CSPAN from about 1776 or something. Let's see, pork road and farms bills, pork prescription drugs bill, pork, pork, pork, spending, spending, spending MORE THAN ANY LIBERAL DEMOCRAT EVER HAS SPENT. Nope, we OBVIOUSLY are not watching the same Congress in action.
WP 4/13/06 “Democratic Contenders”
I am not sure why they call IA4 a “swing district.” Tom Latham has been in congress since 1994. He was re-elected in 2004 with 64% of the vote.
Unless Hayworth has made a major mistake in the last year, which I doubt, he has no fear from Mitchell. His district includes Mormon strongholds in Mesa. He has only grown more popular since he was elected and is a staunch Republican and a great campaigner. I'm sure his war-chest is stocked, too, in a state where Dems have a hard time raising money. They only won the governorship with a small plurality in a three-way race back in 2002, due to a Rino challenger to Matt Salmon running on "Clean Elections" law money.
Ours (Dave Reichert, the sheriff who caught the Green River Killer,) is about to be beaten. The Dems told us he was a Dem, before he ran the first time, but he ran as a Republican so we voted for him. One term told us we should have listened. The guy's a Dem in sheriff's clothing. He's about to be a one-termer.
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