2002 Senate Elections - 34 Elections Tabulated

11-21-01 | HighWheeler

[poet]

Doesn't that also apply to anyone "married" to a particular party? Many on this forum believe just because a repub gets elected, then everything will be all right. Not true. No diff between the parties IMO.

[VA Advogado]

Rockerfella and Dominici are far from likely to lose their seats.

[VA Advogado]

Unlike us junkies, regular people in the street are incredibly stupid (they think Dems stand for the "little guy," that the GOP only represents the rich, etc), and with the Leftist media drumming that into their empty heads non-stop, you begin to get the picture.

Its scary such people exist in our neighborhoods :)

[HighWheeler]

You need to sharpen your information to see some of the most obvious differences. One so big that anyone can see it is the Clintoon scandals vs. any Repub scandal. And remember, not everyone is a saint, but the reaction to a failure is what counts.

Clinton rapes women, lies under oath, has sex in the Oval Office, subborns perjury, etc, etc, etc. and all the Democrats come to his aid and give him cover.

Ted Kennedy kills a woman, makes waitress sandwiches at restaurants, etc, etc, etc, and all the DemocRATS come to his aid to cover him.

Nixon tries a cover up with Watergate and the most vocal people who convince him to resign? The Republicans. Nixon voluntarily resigns.

That Repub who was Speaker of the House for 5 minutes, has an affair and resigns.

Republicans clean house. DemocRATS embrace all deviants, criminals, liars and lowlifes and bring them into their RAThole.

[kayak]

Helms has definitely announced that he will not seek re-election. Liddy Dole has thrown her hat in the ring .... and is the only Republican with any statewide name recognition. Don't know who will be running against her. Erskine Bowles was not going to run against Helms but is apparently re-considering. Yikes!

Dole was born and raised in NC but has not lived here since her college days. The carpetbagger charge is already being thrown around .... and there is a lot of concern among conservatives about her stands on abortion and gun control.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Susan Collins isn't vulnerable for one reason-- John Baldacci isn't running against her because he wants to be Governor. The Dems want that Governorship next year and will spend most of their money and time to get it. King can't run again, so the Dems just have to stay focused. Collins isn't conservative enough to be considered out of step with Maine voters. Here are Bush's 2000 percentages for New England. Note where Maine ranks:

• New Hampshire, 48.07%

• Maine, 43.97%

• Vermont, 40.7%

• Connecticut, 38.44%

• New York, 35.23%

• Massachusetts, 32.5%

• Rhode Island, 31.91%

New Hampshire gave its electoral votes to Bush and the nearest non-electoral-vote-giver is Maine. This is a true indictation of where Mainers are ideologically. They aren't as liberal as the 30-percenters. The Bush's even have a home in Kennebunkport. As long as Bush doesn't embarass them while they harbor the Presidential Family, they aren't going to hold Susan's connection with Bush against her. In fact, Bush could easily campaign with her next year and it wouldn't hurt her. He couldn't do that in Massachusetts or Rhode Island for a candidate there.

[GraniteStateConservative]

New Hampshire is a Republican state. We have problems with soccer moms, so the GOP candidate has to be a smooth talker to win. A Republican will win back the governorship next year and Shaheen would lose big to Sununu, but Smith doesn't talk smooth at all and will be beat up on like Shaheen did last year to Gordon Humphries. Humphries was a former U. S. Senator for goodness sake and was handled without much trouble by Shaheen because she knew how to play her cards against him.

Sununu looks like a nice guy and acts like one-- sort of the like the other nice guy that the state supported for President last year. Shaheen will paint Smith as a throw-grandma-in-the-street Republican and will beat him. New Hampshire voters would laugh at such a characterization of Sununu so she'd have to run on issues and there she'd lose big.

Sununu is very conservative, is pro-ANWR-drilling and knows how to work the cameras and the crowds. Smith looks like a grumpy old man to NH voters.