skippy the bush kangaroo: but women don't wear coat tails

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

but women don't wear coat tails

the latimes tells us that dem candidates are pretty nervous about a national ticket starring sen. clinton:

yet, as he prepares to run for a fifth term next year, [sen. max] baucus is entering treacherous territory. despite recent gains by democrats in the rocky mountain west, party officials across the region are increasingly anxious that their congressional candidates may get dragged under by hillary rodham clinton's presidential campaign.

the new york senator and democratic front-runner was by a wide margin the most unpopular of 13 potential presidential candidates in montana, according to a june survey by mason-dixon polling & research for the billings gazette; 61% said they would not consider voting for her, compared with 49% who would not vote for former north carolina sen. john edwards and 45% who would not vote for illinois sen. barack obama. the most unpopular republican candidate, former massachusetts gov. mitt romney, was rejected by 51%.

recent polls in colorado, nevada and arizona have found similar distaste for clinton.

"she's carrying huge negatives out here," said floyd ciruli, an independent colorado pollster who said democratic congressional candidates would have to highlight their differences with the national party to be successful next year. "it's that liberal east coast image that is so hard to sell in the west."

one key advisor to a prominent democratic congressional candidate, who asked not be to identified discussing tensions within the party, went even further. "it's a disaster for western democrats," he said. "it keeps me up at night."

sen. clinton is far and away the biggest fund-raiser, having surpassed sen. barack "to the future" obama last quarter:

democratic presidential frontrunner hillary rodham clinton announced this morning that she raised $27 million over the past three months, a figure that continues to keep her well out in front of both democrats and republicans in terms of total dollars raised.

tho obama's 20 mill was nothing to sneeze at:

barack obama’s presidential campaign turned heads monday, reporting that the illinois democratic senator raised $20 million for the third quarter with more than $19 million for use in the primaries.

the third quarter generally is considered the toughest fundraising period because of the slow summer days that are included in it. but obama’s hefty haul, his lowest of the year, brings his total for the primary to just less than $75 million.

either way you look at it, the dems are out fund-raising the repubbbs by a wide margin.

by comparison, mitt romney, who has been one of the strongest republican fund-raisers this election, raised only about half of what mr. obama raised this summer, according to a senior adviser who was granted anonymity to discuss the campaign’s finances. the adviser said that mr. romney brought in about $10 million from donors, and that he used more than $6 million of his own money for his campaign.

Labels: democrats, hillary, prez campaign

posted by skippy at 8:50 AM |

6 Comments:

good point. hillary clinton could divide the democratic party so badly that they fail to take nearly as many seats in the house and senate. no wonder rupert murdoch supports her.

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whig, 11:56 AM PDT

It may come down to how few people show up at the polls to vote on the candidates they're least disgusted with.

And with another near even matchup in the Senate and House, there's a great deal not to look forward to with another Clinton as POTUS.

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sean on li, 12:53 PM PDT

I won't vote for my senator in the primary, but I would vote for a three legged dog before I would ever vote for another Republican in my lifetime.

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