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Fickle Voters
Tweet Share on Facebook October 30, 2006 Comment (94)History may declare the 2006 congressional elections the "Year of the Pendulum" in American politics. Voters' typically up-down, in-out, fickle nature seems particularly equivocal this election season.
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GOP GOTV
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2006 Comment (20)The worldview (in Washington at least) is that the Republicans have already lost the U.S. House and that the Senate could go either way. I heard a contrary view yesterday that I share herewith. A well-connected Republican pollster told me that internal White House polls show the Republicans hanging on to majority control of the House by one seat (translating into a 14-seat loss for the GOP) and maintaining control of the Senate (the latter being much of a surprise).
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Sex and the Single Girl (Voter)
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2006 Comment (15)If nothing else succeeds in prodding single women toward the ballot booth next month, will sex do it? Wouldn't have done it for me when I was young and single. There's something decidedly unsexy about voting (unsexy but incredibly important nonetheless). But I'm willing to bet I'm wrong, wrong, wrong on whether it'll work for single female gen-Xers.
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A Horse Race for Ohio's Deborah Pryce
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 Comment (167)Ohio's 15th Congressional District race should have been an easy slide into an eighth term for moderate Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce. It's been anything but.
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New Mexico's and Ohio's All-Female Races
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2006 CommentRep. Heather Wilson, a Republican from New Mexico's First Congressional District, is the only female veteran currently in Congress. She's the first Air Force Academy graduate in Congress and a former Rhodes scholar. She's also looking more and more like toast. Democratic challenger and Attorney General Patricia Madrid has run an aggressive campaign and gut-punch attack ads, featuring Wilson morphing into President Bush. Those ads seem to have worked well.
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All-Female Races Part 3
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2006 Comment (101)Minnesota's Sixth: The district is home to one of the most interesting (read that: competitive) woman vs. woman congressional races of the year. Democrat Patty Wetterling is ahead of Republican State Sen. Michelle Bachmann by 5 percentage points in a poll released this week. Majority Watch, which conducted the poll, "is a partnership set up by two independent polling firms to look at competitive House races nationwide in an effort to predict which party will win control the House on November 7. A total of 1,024 likely voters in the First District were interviewed in the automated telephone survey. The margin of error was listed at 3.08 percent."
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All-Female Races, All Across the Country
Tweet Share on Facebook October 16, 2006 Comment (26)As mentioned in my previous posts, there are 11 U.S. House and Senate races this year in which women are the nominees from each major party. I've compiled some information and musings on each of these 11 races, which will be posted in full by next week:
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Women Running Against Women
Tweet Share on Facebook October 13, 2006 CommentAs mentioned in my previous post, there are 11 U.S. House and Senate races this year in which women are the nominees from each major party. I've compiled some information and musings on each of these 11 races, which will be posted in full by next week:
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The Congressional Family Values Scandal and Female Candidates
Tweet Share on Facebook October 11, 2006 CommentConventional wisdom seems to suggest that women running for office do better when men boggle it. And if that's true, then no recent congressional election could benefit women more than this year's, what with the abrupt resignation of former Rep. Mark Foley, the Florida Republican who sent "overly friendly"–and sexually explicit, in some cases–E-mails and instant messages to male House pages. But will the men's problems really translate into more female members of Congress?
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It's All in the Polls , and It Ain't Good for the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2006 CommentIn my mind's eye , I see House Speaker Dennis Hastert stubbornly clenching his teeth around a fraying tether, hanging from a high wire. But we all know that tether's going to unravel when polls start showing he's costing Republicans more than he's bringing to them. Guess what: Those polls have arrived.
