Posted on 01/11/2010 10:39:20 AM PST by upsdriver
The Tribune has learned that North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven will announce today he is running for the U.S.Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan.
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“Maybe +2 if Scott Brown wins.”
No. :)
+2 WHEN Scott Brown wins!
It sure is looking like Scott Brown will win this one. It is starting to look like a landslide. Way too big to win by cheating....this should shock the dem pols and could create such fear...the imposters agenda is toast.
Don’t know much about him but from what I hear, he sounds like an across the board straight up conservative.
It is! But this is Massholechusetts, home of the Moonbat. I would be on guard until he is sworn into the US Senate.
A Republican winning the “Kennedy Seat” and stopping ObamaCare? Sweet, sweet justice!!!!!!
LAndslide? I hope so but last poll I saw it was basically a dead heat.
now if we can just hold the Missouri seat, we’ll be in much better shape in 2011...
Missouri is the only open seat that I’m worried about (Talent vs Carnahan)
OOOPS - I meant Blunt vs Carnahan...duh!
Maybe more...
Reid, Specter, and Lincoln (AR) are probably goners too.
I remember the polls with Christi in NJ....he won huge...but the polls never ever showed that one. So I have to conclude the polls are always skewed especially when a republican is way ahead.
I live in MO. Carnahans don’t lose elections here and the Blunt name is tarnished. Bad move by the state Republicans for putting him up. We have some great GOP talent at many levels, but the the party does a terrible job of developing them into statewide candidates. It’s a shame a relatively conservative state like MO is going to probably be represented by dunces like McCaskill and Robin Carnahan. All that being said, I’ll certainly do my part to get Blunt elected—he’s the nominee, so might as well get behind him. It will be close, but I think the Carnahan name will carry the day—disgusting, I know.
I’ve heard that he would make a good candidate to challenge Kent Conrad too in 2012.
He's no conservative, yet not quite a RINO either. I'll take him over the far-left lapdogs we've had for 25 years.
Doug Burgum for Governor!
This is where the Tea Party/912ers can make a difference, with support for good people and pressure on local GOP leaders to pick good people.
The way to beat Robin Carnahan is to keep hitting the fact that she is a pro-abort for any reason, any time, any place.I believe most Missourians are pro-life and this pro-abortion fact about Robin Carnahan will influence them to vote for pro-life Blunt. Blunt has made his mistakes but he has a good name among conservatives in SW MO.
Hurrah!
Exactly...Blunt has a good name among conservatives in SW Missouri, but he is going to be a much tougher sell statewide. I don’t think the abortion issue is going to make that big of a difference, at least among moderates who are more likely to go by name recognition and have seen the Carnahan name on a ballot for almost 20 years.
Kenny Hulshof had the same problem...no one outside of the 9th district (where I live) had really heard of him, and he ran a crappy campaign for governor—hence he got steamrolled by Jay Nixon.
The only thing Blunt really has going for him is the national distaste with Democrats right now. 2010 is going to be a good time to run as a Republican, and he can use that too his advantage. Blunt is going to have to rack up huge numbers in rural MO to outdistance the welfare palaces of KC ans StL...not to mention the vote fraud. Impossible? Of course not. Right now I would probably handicap it at a 2-4 point lead for Carnahan, in any other year (where Democrats aren’t as hated) I would say Carnahan would win going away...probably by 5-7 points, but it will be close this time around.
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