Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Now that Republican officials have come up dry looking for Senate candidates they can support in Florida, they’re prepared to re-embrace Rep. Katherine Harris<\/a>. Harris acknowledged yesterday that she’s had some difficulties securing support for her flailing campaign, but said she’s “turned a corner” with Jeb Bush and the White House. The St. Petersburg Times reported that Jeb met with Harris in Tallahassee recently and said he has stopped recruiting alternate candidates.<\/p>\n * In New York City, Michael Bloomberg had a big night, winning the city’s mayoral race by 20 points, but his coattails were short. Despite Bloomberg’s work for Republican candidates in several city council districts, including endorsements and campaign appearances, all of Bloomberg’s GOP candidates lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Cincinnati voters, for the first time, elected an African-American mayor<\/a> yesterday, just four years after riots nearly tore the city apart. State Sen. Mark Mallory defeated Councilman David Pepper, both Democrats, in a nonpartisan mayoral runoff Tuesday to lead Ohio’s third-largest city.<\/p>\n * After trailing badly as recently as late-September, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) staged an amazing comeback<\/a> and defeated rival Freman Hendrix, 53% to 47%. The Detroit Free Press reported that Kilpatrick used his tremendous personal appeal and a series of impressive public appearances in the wake of civil rights legend Rosa Parks’ death Oct. 24 to apparently overcome what had been a 19-point deficit in late September.<\/p>\n * Iowa’s 2006 gubernatorial race began in earnest this week when Rep. Jim Nussle (R) aired the campaign’s first TV commercial<\/a>, a full year before the election. A commercial touting Nussle’s congressional record began running in the TV markets of western Iowa — the home turf of party rival Bob Vander Plaats, a Sioux City businessman.<\/p>\n * And my favorite campaign-related quote of the day comes by way of the LA Times. After all of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ballot measures were rejected by voters, a Republican strategist and occasional Schwarzenegger advisor said, “The act is getting stale<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Now that Republican officials have come up dry looking for Senate candidates they can support in Florida, they’re prepared to re-embrace Rep. Katherine Harris. Harris acknowledged yesterday that she’s had some difficulties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}