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An Overview
of Next Tuesday's Important
Off-Year Elections
Part One of Three
By Dave Andrusko
Please send
your comments on any or all of
the three parts to
daveandrusko@gmail.com. If
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www.twitter.com/daveha.
Fridays always
tend to be busy TN&V days, but
especially today. Parts
Two
and
Three address the impact of
the House Health Care bill that
was unveiled yesterday ("Federal
Government Plan Would Directly
Fund Abortion Under Pelosi
Health Care Bill"; and "House
Health Bill Contains Dangerous
Rationing Provisions"). Part One
is about next Tuesday's off-year
elections.
There are three
contests that have drawn
enormous (and ever-increasing)
attention. Each has had a
different trajectory, which
makes watching the distinctive
ebbs and flows all the more
interesting.
The first is the
election to fill the seat in New
York's 23rd congressional
district left vacant when
pro-abortion President Barack
Obama selected Cong. John McHugh
to be Secretary of the Army.
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Doug
Hoffman |
The Democrat,
Bill Owens, is reliably
pro-abortion. But so, too, is
the GOP candidate, Dede
Scozzafava. NRL PAC has endorsed
the Conservative Party
candidate, Doug Hoffman, who is
pro-life.
A few weeks
ago, the experts told us the
race would go down to the wire
between Owens and Scozzafava. At
one point Hoffman barely
registered in the polls. But as
of this week, Hoffman has all
the momentum, has been endorsed
by a wide spectrum of Republican
officials and former officials,
and is tied with Owens in the
most recent polls, maybe even
with a leg up.
In New Jersey,
NRL PAC has endorsed pro-life
Republican Christopher Christie
for governor. His opponent is
the pro-abortion (and fabulously
wealthy) Democratic incumbent
Jon Corzine. This election
really is too close to call.
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Christopher Christie |
The latest
poll-- The Fairleigh Dickinson
University PublicMind
survey--found Corzine at 44% and
Christie at 43%. The 694 likely
voters gave Independent
Christopher Daggett 6% of the
vote, a figure much lower than
what it had been.
Whether it
proves to be true next week, the
assumption has been that most of
Daggett's voters were coming out
of Christie's column.
In Virginia,
there is irony on top of irony,
especially in the "be careful
what you wish for" category. The
Washington Post endorsed
pro-abortion Creigh Deeds in the
Democratic primary. The
conventional wisdom is that this
editorial boost put him over the
top in his race against two much
better known (and better funded)
pro-abortion rivals.
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Bob
McDonnell |
As the race
goes into its final few days,
all polling shows that Bob
McDonnell, the pro-life
Republican endorsed by NRL PAC,
is in the lead. But it is not
for lack of trying by the Post,
which continues to scramble
furiously to elect Deeds.
The Post's
editorial page and its "hard
news" reporters--nominally
independent of each other--are
working in tandem, singing
harmoniously off the same sheet
of music. Collectively they have
done their best to torpedo not
only McDonnell, but also the
pro-life Republican candidates
for Lt. Governor and Attorney
General. It is no exaggeration
to say that the Post's coverage
has been hysterical.
Next Wednesday,
media coverage of the 2009
off-year elections will be
enormous. Stay tuned.
Please send your
thoughts and comments to
daveandrusko@gmail.com.
Part Two
Part Three |
