Florida Republican leaders officially set the state's presidential primary for Jan. 31, 2012, challenging the preeminence of the traditional early-voting primary states and ensuring that Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada will move up their dates in order to vote ahead of Florida as they have in the past.
By Jessica Taylor and Tim Alberta
Florida Republican leaders officially set the state's presidential primary for Jan. 31, 2012, challenging the preeminence of the traditional early-voting primary states and ensuring that Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada will move up their dates in order to vote ahead of Florida as they have in the past.
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By Josh Kraushaar and Jessica Taylor One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being dragged down by an unpopular president who would lose to both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., will run in the new 14th District next year, setting up what could be a bitter GOP primary with fellow freshman Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill.
Walsh announced his decision in an email Wednesday to supporters, writing that, regardless of legal challenges Republicans have filed, he has chosen to run in the new seat because it now includes his home of McHenry. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has outraised the National Republican Congressional Committee for the month of August, bringing in $3.56 million during the typically slow recess month compared to the NRCC's $3 million.
The NRCC still has a hefty cash on hand advantage over their Democratic counterparts, though. The GOP House campaign arm has $11.7 million in the bank to the DCCC's $7.7 million. The DCCC has also now paid off most of the $19.7 million in debt it carried at the beginning of the year and is now only $3.3 million in the red. But the NRCC still carries less debt - only $2.5 million. The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $3 million during the month of August. Their latest fundraising haul brings their cash on hand total to $11.7 million.
The House Republicans' campaign arm also continues to reduce their remaining debt from the 2010 midterms, now only $2.5 million in the red after paying down $250,000 last month. In July, the NRCC raised $3.88 million and had $11.29 million cash on hand. The National Republican Congressional Committee is launching a TV ad campaign against Rep.Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., hitting the Blue Dog Democrat over the growing national debt and pressuring him to support a balanced budget amendment.
The three-week cable TV buy starts today, claiming that Cardoza, who co-chairs the Blue Dog coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats, is "wast[ing] billions." FOREST HILLS, N.Y. -- President Obama won't officially be on the ballot in this special election in New York's 9th District, but he might as well be. What was once presumed would be a sleepy affair between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner in the race to succeed former Rep. Anthony Weiner, has become anything but, with Republicans rushing to frame the race as a referendum on the president and his agenda - specifically his administration's policies toward Israel. FOREST HILLS, N.Y. -- With less than seven hours to go until the polls close in the contentious NY-09 special election, allegations of dirty tricks between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner are flying. Weprin's campaign claimed Tuesday afternoon that Turner and his GOP allies sent a 3 a.m. text message asking voters to call Weprin's campaign headquarters to jam up his phone lines. HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. -- Republican Bob Turner won a special election Tuesday in a New York City congressional district that has been held by Democrats for nearly a century - an upset that delivers a stinging rebuke to President Obama and his party.
Just before midnight, the Associated Press called the race for Turner, a cable television executive with no prior political experience. He and his supporters had billed the contest against Democrat David Weprin as a referendum on Obama. FOREST HILLS, N.Y. -- On the final day of campaigning before Tuesday's contentious special congressional election here, both Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turnerurged voters to send a message that they say will resonate far beyond New York's 9th Congressional District. At an afternoon press conference with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Turner reiterated what has become his chief selling point, arguing that an upset win by him in this liberal Queens- and Brooklyn-based district will send a shockwave through the national political landscape and send the White House a message on Israel. |
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