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
* Not only is [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag] (R) struggling badly in her Senate campaign in Florida, but she’s also having trouble breaking through with Republicans<\/a>. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Harris trailed Sen. [tag]Bill Nelson[\/tag] (D), 59% to 26%, which is almost exactly where the race was a month ago. According to the poll, only 35% of Florida Republicans want Harris as their Senate nominee, but none of her unknown primary opponents seem to have much of a shot.<\/p>\n * In Maryland, the latest Washington Post poll<\/a> shows former Rep. [tag]Kweisi Mfume[\/tag] (D) pulling ahead in the Dem Senate primary against Rep. [tag]Ben Cardin[\/tag] (D), 31% to 25%, with nearly one-third of state Dems still undecided. In the general election, however, Cardin seems to be in a stronger position, leading Lt. Gov. [tag]Michael Steele[\/tag] (R) by 10 points, while Mfume is ahead of Steele by three.<\/p>\n * The AP had a key report<\/a> out of Washington state today on Sen. [tag]Maria Cantwell[\/tag] (D), who is struggling in her re-election effort, in part because of her support for the war in Iraq and the consternation it’s causing among the state’s progressive voters. “We’re frustrated,” said Joe Colgan, a retired lineman from Kent, Wash., whose son, Army 2nd Lt. Benjamin Colgan, was killed in Iraq. “With all the information that is out now that shows the war was a terrible mistake, she will not admit that her vote was wrong. That’s a fairly serious flaw.” Unlike [tag]Joe Lieberman[\/tag], however, Cantwell’s two primary opponents are largely unknown and have very limited financial resources.<\/p>\n * According to a report in Roll Call<\/a>, a poll conducted for [tag]Jim Webb[\/tag]’s (D) Senate campaign in Virginia shows the challenger pulling to within seven points of incumbent Sen. [tag]George Allen[\/tag] (R). In the Benenson Strategy Group poll, Allen leads 46% to 39%.<\/p>\n * And in Minnesota, the two latest Rasmussen polls offer Dems good news in both of the state’s major statewide contests. In the open Senate, Rasmussen shows attorney [tag]Amy Klobuchar[\/tag] (D) with a narrow lead over Rep. [tag]Mark Kennedy[\/tag] (R), 47% to 44%<\/a>, which is about where the race was last month. (Rasmussen did not poll on veterinarian [tag]Ford Bell[\/tag], who is challenging Klobuchar for the Dem nomination.) In Minnesota’s gubernatorial race, state Attorney General [tag]Mike Hatch[\/tag] continues to lead incumbent Gov. [tag]Tim Pawlenty[\/tag] (R), with the latest Rasmussen results showing Hatch ahead by five, 47% to 42%<\/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: * Not only is [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag] (R) struggling badly in her Senate campaign in Florida, but she’s also having trouble breaking through with Republicans. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Harris trailed Sen. [tag]Bill […]<\/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-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}