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
* In Nevada’s competitive gubernatorial race, Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) is ahead, but his lead is hardly insurmountable. In a new Rasmussen poll<\/a>, Gibbons leads Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson (D) 43% to 38%, and leads State Senator Dina Titus (D) 46% to 41%.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Nevada, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman’s (D) interest in a Senate campaign against incumbent Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) is apparently serious. Goodman had meetings in DC<\/a> last week with Sens. Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, and DSCC Chair Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n * The race among Kansas Republicans vying to take on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) was once lonely, but is now suddenly crowded. In the past two weeks, three GOP candidates<\/a> have thrown their hats into the ring: former Kansas House Speaker Robin Jennison, state Sen. Jim Barnett, and author Ken Canfield. A recent poll<\/a> showed Sebelius leading all of her potential rivals by double digits.<\/p>\n * Len Munsil, a far-right activist who helped create an advocacy group called the Center for Arizona Policy, has jumped out in front<\/a> of the Republican gubernatorial field thanks to a strong fundraising effort. Munsil is still considered an underdog against Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), who enjoys a 60% approval rating.<\/p>\n * By way of my friend KB<\/a> we learn that Patty Wetterling, who dropped out of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race last month, announced this morning that she will run<\/a> for the House instead. Wetterling will run in Minnesota’s open race for the 6th Congressional District, currently represented by Rep. Mark Kennedy (R), who’s giving up his seat to run for the Senate. Wetterling will likely compete for the Dem nomination against Elwyn Tinklenberg, who launched his campaign after Wetterling assured him she wouldn’t run for the seat. Tinklenberg added that he is “absolutely” staying in the race.<\/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: * In Nevada’s competitive gubernatorial race, Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) is ahead, but his lead is hardly insurmountable. In a new Rasmussen poll, Gibbons leads Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson (D) 43% to 38%, […]<\/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-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","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=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}