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Mitt Romney's New Hampshire Problem
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIn his book "Hardball," Chris Matthews recounts how an obscure lame-duck Southern governor built a national organization that took him all the way to the White House in 1976. "His strategy was simple," writes Matthews. "Every Democrat who lost a primary election [in 1974] received a personal letter from the obscure Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia." Carter reasoned that political losers would be especially grateful to someone who reached out to them during a difficult time. What is more, he realized that even those who lost a campaign would have built an impressive political network in their ...
Eight Lessons of the 2010 Midterms
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyExcept for a little clean-up duty in Louisiana and Hawaii, the rowdy and random 2010 midterm primary season concluded this week, with more upstarts and upsets. Now, the remaining general election candidates, not to mention the leaders of both major political parties, are trying to discern what in the world the voters are trying to tell them – or whether there even are any coherent messages to be gleaned in this grueling election season. The short answer is that voters are certainly trying to tell the political class a thing or two, but it's not always clear what voters are trying to ...
Tea Party Gets More Scalps From GOP Establishment
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- Tea Party conservatives emerged from the final big night of the 2010 primary season with at least two shocking upsets: Their pick in Delaware's Republican Senate primary, Christine O'Donnell, toppled veteran Rep. Michael Castle. And Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, a political newcomer allied with the Tea Party, defeated former congressman Rick Lazio in New York's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Delaware primary was a fitting climax to a season of noisy contests between candidates anointed by the Republican establishment because they seemed more electable, and those ...
Ayotte Wins New Hampshire GOP Senate Primary
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn one of the country's tightest and most-anticipated Republican Senate primaries, New Hampshire former attorney general Kelly Ayotte beat conservative lawyer Ovide Lamontagne by just 1,600 votes. With 90 percent of the vote counted Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times had Ayotte in the lead over Lamontagne by a mere one percentage point. Both Republican candidates had received high-profile endorsements from conservative leaders: Lamontagne, considered the Tea Party favorite, received (via Twitter) the endorsement of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), as well as Tea Party leader and Colorado Senate ...
Tea Party Coups: O'Donnell for Senate in Delaware, Paladino for New York Governor
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyTea Party conservatives emerged from the final big night of the 2010 primary season with at least two shocking upsets: Their pick in Delaware's Republican Senate primary, Christine O'Donnell, toppled veteran Rep. Michael Castle. And Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, a political newcomer allied with the Tea Party, defeated former congressman Rick Lazio in New York's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Delaware primary was a fitting climax to a season of noisy contests between candidates anointed by the Republican establishment because they seemed more electable, and those favored by Tea Party ...
Poll Watch Round-Up: Latest on Tuesday's Hot Primary Races
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe big primaries to watch Tuesday night are on the Republican side, which has been featuring more Tea Party vs. the Establishment battles than Democrats, who are presumably the people the movement most wants to beat on Election Day. Here's a round-up of the latest Poll Watch dispatches on those races: Kelly Ayotte Tries to Hold on in GOP's New Hampshire Senate Primary Former New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, long considered a shoo-in for the GOP Senate nomination, still is out in front with Tuesday's primary at hand, but she has seen her lead shrink over Ovide Lamontagne, a Tea ...
The Tea Party Takes on Washington: O'Donnell, Paul, Angle and the Rest
By Alex Eichler - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- If the latest polls are any indication, it could be tea time for Delaware, and a host of other places for that matter. Delaware: Christine O'Donnell A number of Republicans are concerned that if dark-horse tea party candidate Christine O'Donnell wins Tuesday's Republican primary for the Senate race, edging out moderate establishment Republican candidate and former governor Mike Castle, she'll be a weak candidate in the general election. "O'Donnell is not electable," the conservative paper the Washington Examiner declared this week. And it is true that if she makes it to the ...
Electable or Not, Tea Party Candidates Surge in Final Round of Primaries
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe 2010 primary season is ending with a blast of people power that recalls Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign -- except this time the fired-up grassroots are conservatives instead of liberals. Candidates blessed by the Republican establishment are under threat this week from upstart "outsiders" and primary voters who care more about ideology than electability. The latest establishment Republicans on the line include moderate nine-term Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware and a former New Hampshire attorney general, Kelly Ayotte, in Senate primaries, and former Rep. Rick Lazio in New York's ...
Jim DeMint Backs Tea Party Candidate Christine O'Donnell in Delaware
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFriday night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) took to Twitter to endorse Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell. O'Donnell is running against moderate Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware's GOP primary election on Tuesday. DeMint's Tweet reads: "I'm proud to endorse Christine O'Donnell for US Senate in Delaware. She will stand strong for the principles of freedom." DeMint's support came on the same day that the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced it too would endorse O'Donnell -- and just one day after Sarah Palin backed her. The days of the endorsement press conference or press release may be ...
Democratic Hopes Look Dim in New Hampshire Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIf the Democrats had hopes of capturing the New Hampshire Senate seat that Republican Judd Gregg held for three terms before announcing he would not seek re-election, the latest poll does not hold out much good news for them. Three-term Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes has been unable to gain ground on the two leading Republican candidates competing for the GOP nomination. Former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, who had long been considered the frontrunner in the Republican race, leads Hodes 49 percent to 37 percent with 7 percent preferring some other candidate and 7 percent undecided, ...
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