Joe Miller in Alaska needs your help, as Murkowski is running as a spoiler, Sharron Angle needs your help, as Scott Ashjian is running as a fake tea party candidate and a spoiler
Posted on | October 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
We’ve always been straightforward with you about the status of the races for tea party candidates – both when things are good, and when they are not so good.
In Alaska problems are emerging.
First a new poll shows the race is getting close between conservative Republican Joe Miller and liberals Lisa Murkowski (Independent) and Scott McAdams (Democrat). Here are the results from a new CFG Poll:
Joe Miller (R): 33%
Lisa Murkowski (I): 31%
Scott McAdams (D): 27%
The other troubling developments are the FEC reports which show Democrat Scott McAdamas has raised $685,000 – which means he has a chance to raise his poll numbers even higher. And, as we reported yesterday, a liberal “Super PAC” is dumping $600,000+ into an ad blitz supporting Lisa Murkowski and attacking Joe Miller.
Friends, we worked too hard, spent too much money, and accomplished what many thought was unthinkable in helping Joe Miller win the Republican nomination for Senate in Alaska. We can’t let that all go to waste and lose this race.
Please help us fight back for Joe Miller by making a contribution to this campaign online – HERE.
Even Salon.com believes that yesteray’s debate was Mission accomplished for Sharon Angle
Harry Reid, D-Nev.
You call that a fight, Harry?
At no point in Thursday night’s Nevada Senate debate — the sole televised encounter between the two main contenders before Election Day — did Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee, do any of the following:
* Claim that the United States had fought the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1990s
* Draw a blank on a gotcha question involving the Supreme Court
* Compare her own religious values to her opponent’s “Marxist” values
* Answer multiple questions from moderators about her past association with witchcraft
Thus, it may well be that Angle succeeded in her debate where her fellow Tea Party candidate, Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell failed the night before.
O’Donnell and Angle, of course, are ideological soulmates; on the issues that voters like to pretend decide races, there is basically zero daylight between them, and you can expect them to vote the exact same way 99 percent of the time (at least) if they were to each join the Senate next year. But it’s not position papers that will decide whether they win in November; it’s whether they can convince voters that they aren’t as flaky as they seem.
O’Donnell, in her debate, faced the stiffer challenge. Her kookiness had already been enough to make her an SNL character, and she showed up at the debate already far behind in the polls. She needed to do far more than simply appear competent to dent the 15-20-point lead that her opponent, Chris Coons, enjoys — and she failed.
But for Angle, whose perceived extremism and occasional erratic behavior had made swing voters hesitant to support her, “good enough” on Thursday night would probably be enough. She’s been running dead even with Harry Reid for months; it’s clear that Nevadans are itching to throw out the Senate majority leader – they just need reassurance that Angle is competent enough to serve. And in her showdown with Reid, she seemed to meet that challenge.
Here is an article from British Telegraph
Harry Reid fights for senate seat in Las Vegas debate
Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, battled to save his political life last night against an ultraconservative Republican seeking to hand the Tea Party movement its biggest scalp of the midterm election campaign.
By Alex Spillius in Las Vegas
Published: 7:00AM BST 15 Oct 2010
After 24 years in the Senate Mr Reid finds himself deep trouble amid deep voter anger at the economy and high unemployment, especially in his state Nevada, which has the country’s top jobless and home foreclosure rates.
Despite spending heavily on a spate of negative advertisements portraying Sharron Angle, his opponent, as extreme and inconsistent, the two are neck and neck in the polls.
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So short in stature that she had to conduct the debate on a six-inch high platform, Mrs Angle nonetheless threw several rhetorical punches that justified the reputation of Las Vegas for big fight nights.
She portrayed the veteran Democrat as an inveterate tax raiser and a career politician steeped in the grubby ways of Washington.
Presenting herself as an outsider, a “mother, grandmother and former teacher” who lived in a middle class neighbourhood of Reno, she noted that when in the capital Mr Reid resided in a suite at the luxury Ritz Carlton Hotel.
She demanded that Mr Reid explain how he had accumulated his wealth, which has been estimated at between $4 million and $6 million, on a government salary.
Calling the challenge a “low blow”, a clearly annoyed Mr Reid that he had earlier worked as a lawyer and had done well out of investments – as many people did in the Las Vegas boom years.
“Her suggestion that I made money from being a senator is false” he retorted.
Mrs Angle, 61, also demanded that the senator apologise for remarking in 2007 that the war in Iraq was “lost”, which she said had demoralised US troops and put their lives in danger.
The two candidates clashed repeatedly over healthcare reform, which Mrs Angle repeatedly called Obamacare, the standard derision used by opponents.
She in turn was forced to defend several policy positions that Mr Reid sought to portray as outlandish such as abolishing the Department of Education and privatising Social Security, the American equivalent of Britain’s National Insurance scheme.
Mrs Angle’s supporters were buoyed by her performance, which they said would persuade uncertain voters that she was a credible candidate.
Bob List, a former Republican governor of Nevada, said: “She gave people comfort who had concerns or had seen terribly negative ads saying she was extreme.”
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