Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:36 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:51
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:06 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:06
From wibw.com:
Polls show Republican candidates leading all four of the statewide races in Kansas, but GOP candidates didn’t take all the prizes when it comes to fundraising.
Campaign finance numbers out Tuesday show Republican Sam Brownback winning the money side of the Governor’s race. The $2.9 million he has raised far outpaces the $648,755 taken in by Democrat Tom Holland. In fact, the total amount Holland raised in only a little more than what Brownback has left for the final week of the campaign. Holland has $74,479 left on hand.
In the Attorney General’s race, Republican Derek Schmidt leads in the polls despite only raising half of what incumbent Democrat Steve Six took in. Of the more than a million dollars Six raised, he has $49,730 left. Schmidt raised $506,116 and has $32,510 on hand.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:08 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:08
No matter what he spends, latest poll shows Steve Six is down.
From LJWorld.com:
Democratic incumbent Steve Six has spent twice as much money as his Republican challenger for Kansas attorney general, but outside groups appear to be spending more than the candidates to influence the race.
Finance records available Tuesday showed Six had spent more than $1.1 million through Thursday. GOP nominee Derek Schmidt, the Kansas Senate’s majority leader, had spent less than $474,000.
In the governor’s race, GOP nominee and U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, had a large fundraising advantage, as expected, over Democratic candidate and state Sen. Tom Holland. Secretary of State Chris Biggs and State Treasurer Dennis McKinney, both Democrats, have outspent their opponents. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, a Republican, has no opponent in the Nov. 2 election.
Outside donors
The attorney general’s race is notable because of outside groups’ attempts to influence voters. Six spokesman Gavin Young said the Democrat has had to raise more money than Schmidt to counter groups supporting the Republican, including one with commitments for television time approaching $1 million.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:57 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:57
From BurlingtonFreePress.com:
The two candidates talked loftily about transparency and technological advances, but it was a listener from Barton who posed the kind of question one of them might have to answer routinely as secretary of state.
The listener said a town clerk had charged him 10 cents a page for a public record, citing town regulations, even though state law specified 5 cents. What should he have been charged, 5 cents or 10 cents?
Neither Jim Condos, the Democratic candidate, nor Jason Gibbs, the Republican, was willing to hazard a guess. Each said he was unsure which law took precedence. But the question, toward the end of their 45-minute debate on Vermont Public Radio’s “Vermont Edition,” provided a springboard for each to discuss his public-records platform.
Condos said he would establish a public-records advisory office, with an ombudsman who would hear public-records disputes. Gibbs said he would create a public-records accountability commission that would help consolidate disparate laws and render them in plain English.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:47 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:47
From JimForAG.com:
Former Governor Mitt Romney today endorsed Jim McKenna, Republican candidate for Attorney General of Massachusetts.
“Jim McKenna is an experienced prosecutor and lawyer who will bring a fresh perspective to the Attorney General’s office,” said Governor Romney. “His tenacity in waging an unprecedented write-in campaign to qualify for the ballot is a testament to his determination and resolve. These are qualities which will serve him well as Attorney General.”
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:32 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:32
From StateHouse Report:
A new InsiderAdvantage/Statehouse Report poll released today suggests that South Carolina may well see a Republican sweep of all constitutional offices in the Nov. 2 general election.
That’s each of the nine statewide offices – from governor to the comptroller general and on down the ballot to the commissioner of agriculture.
The poll, conducted among 878 registered voters Tuesday night, shows a Democrat leading in only one race – Greenville lawyer and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Frank Holleman in the race for superintendent of education.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:29 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:24
From CNNPolitics:
The controversy began last week when reports surfaced that Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz had told poll workers they could ask voters wearing clothing bearing the WWE logo to cover it when at the polling place because Linda McMahon is so closely associated with the company.
She left the CEO’s post to cast her lot in the Senate race.
State Republicans and McMahon reacted as if Bysiewicz had ordered a complete ban on such clothing and decreed that poll workers could turn voters away if they wore clothing with WWE-logos.
“On what grounds does Bysiewicz base this ridiculous act of voter intimidation?” asked Republican State Party Chairman Chris Healy last week.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:09 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:09
From 11alive.com:
In the Lieutenant Governor’s race, Republican incumbent Casey Cagle maintains his lead over Democrat Carol Porter 53-to-37 percent. Republican Attorney General candidate and former Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens has a 13 point lead over Democratic challenger Ken Hodges. Libertarian candidate Don Smart has 7 percent overall, leading to the outside chance of a Olens-Hodges runoff, though since Olens has exactly 50 percent as of this poll, it is not likely.
GOP ex-principal John Barge’s 13-point lead over Democratic opponent Joe Martin still has him below 50 percent, leading to a higher likelihood that he may be facing a runoff in the state school superintendent’s race.
As was true in the last poll, about 8-of-10 partisan voters are sticking with their party’s candidate, but independent voters are leaning strongly toward Republican candidates, mirroring similar polling data from across the country. The Republican candidate is holding a significant lead in each contest among those voters who have cast early ballots.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:05 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:05
From EvanstonReview:
And the Virginia-based Republican State Leadership Committee has infused the Illinois GOP with $800,000 this month alone, which is a major reason why marginally competitive races have turned into battlegrounds.
Karl Rove, former top political strategist in the George W. Bush White House, explained the timing of the national group’s spending. In a Wall Street Journal essay this year, Rove wrote that the State Leadership Committee intends to help the party gain control of state legislatures so it can benefit when it comes time to redraw congressional districts in the next term.
The outside money has enriched state political committees late in the election. Both the House Republican Organization and the Illinois Republican Party stand to nearly double their year-to-date spending in the month of October.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:35 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:35
From Kentucky.com:
These districts in Texas and Ohio are among 55 that the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has deemed “essential.” The group has committed to spending $20 million on races that will have the greatest impact on redistricting.
Republicans are pouring money into key statehouse races, as well. The Republican State Leadership Committee is running a $20 million initiative called REDMAP – it stands for Redistricting Majority Project. “To control the process – or at least have a seat at the table – winning, defending and increasing state legislative majorities must be a priority,” its website says.
If the 2010 election turns out to be a historic landslide for Republicans at the statehouse and gubernatorial levels, Storey says that the GOP could unilaterally control the drawing of some 165 U.S. House seats compared with only about 30 for Democrats. The rest of the seats would be in states with redistricting commissions or with divided partisan control.
History is not on the Democrats’ side. Going back to 1900, the party of the president lost seats in state legislatures in every midterm except 1934 and 2002, according to NCSL. In the 25 other midterm election years, the party holding the White House lost, on average, 495 state legislative seats. Although the Democrats have gained seats in each of the past three elections, that winning streak will be tough to continue this year.
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