Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans (click here) are aiming to deal Democrats a decisive blow in the closing days of the campaign for control of the U.S. Senate by pouring millions of dollars into three states -- Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina -- that favor Democrats.
“These states are the Democratic firewall,” says Jennifer Duffy, a Senate analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. “They’ve got to win most if not all of those.”
Democrats are responding to the advertising blitz with spending of their own, aiming to win over voters that are more closely aligned with their party than in most of the other competitive states....
The war on women was something that came out of a Rush Limbaugh rant about contraception paid for by insurance. It was bad, it was nasty, it should never have happened, but, it happened ...
Please learn from this lesson. Democratic women are very autonomous
...Allen won the primary in June (click here) to take the state Senate seat left behind by Democrat Ted Lieu. According to LA Weekly, the Santa Monica-Malibu school board member held a 22-point lead over Fluke after more than half of the votes were in.
The war on women was something that came out of a Rush Limbaugh rant about contraception paid for by insurance. It was bad, it was nasty, it should never have happened, but, it happened ...
Please learn from this lesson. Democratic women are very autonomous
within their relationships, not so with Republican women. Please remember where the threats to Women's Rights are stemming. Why would any Democrat running in a red state expect to win on blue state values?
...Allen won the primary in June (click here) to take the state Senate seat left behind by Democrat Ted Lieu. According to LA Weekly, the Santa Monica-Malibu school board member held a 22-point lead over Fluke after more than half of the votes were in.
Both candidates, who faced off Tuesday after finishing as the top two in the June primary, raised over $1 million for their campaigns....
Sandra Fluke is a very intelligent woman capable of leadership, but, she needs to reassess how she is going to achieve district importance so she can climb the latter to statewide recognition and ultimately nationwide recognition. Her opponent was on the local school board before he ran for state office. I don't know if that will work for Sandra, but, this episode should be telling her to remake herself in an approach that has meaning to the voters, not just to women.
