Starting April, 2008, Madison Project will be regularly posting blogs on the races where its candidates are involved. The Project will do its best to post up-to-date poll numbers for the races, breaking news, insights, and press releases so that Madison members can track how the endorsed candidates are doing in their respective races.
Archive for May, 2008
This is great news for Fred Dailey, but we have always liked his chances. He is a great conservative, well liked and well known in Ohio. Any time an incumbent is down by more that 10%, that spells trouble. I would like to see something more in depth like fav/unfav numbers, but for a 500 person poll of registered voters over the span of two weeks, these are great numbers for Dailey.
More and more, as we have blogged over the past few days, voters are waking up to the fact that they’ve been sold a bill of goods by a lot of the Democrats that won in 2006. Those Democrats campaigned as conservatives and have ended up voting the far Left agenda of the House leadership over 95% of the time.
05 21st, 2008
Zac Space in OH-18, which we hope will soon be Fred Dailey country, is not really as conservative as he would like to portray himself as. The Weekly Standard notes, the “Blue Dogs” are being kept on a very short leash by Nancy Pelosi. That’s my thing with Blue Dog Democrats: they run as quasi-conservatives, but then go to DC and vote for left-leaning, liberal leadership and then do their bidding. It really is something of a joke.
05 12th, 2008
For those not familiar with MN politics, if a candidate receives the endorsement of the party at the convention, as Paulsen did the third week of April, it means usually, but not always, there will be no primary; there is usually an agreement among GOP candidates that the convention endorsement means the others drop out or face the wrath of the party. If anyone remembers from two years ago, Bachmann got the convention endorsement over Krinkie, eventhough he had been endorsed by the Club for Growth and had a nice financial lead. Didn’t matter; after that convention, he agreed not to primary Bachmann. So Paulsen will not be challenged in a primary, which is a good thing as the general will be a tough race.
05 9th, 2008
Rasmussen reported that Udall is up 45%-42% over Bob. The last 4-5 polls I’ve seen on this race have shown no more than a 4% difference, with Schaffer anywhere from up 1% to down 3%. It’s going to be a very interesting race to watch this fall. I’m still holding out hope that the significant independent vote in Colorado will be swayed by McCain to vote for Schaffer.
