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
* Further proof that Pennsylvania’s Senate race is getting a little closer comes by way of a new Strategic Vision (R) vision poll<\/a>, which shows [tag]Bob Casey[\/tag] (D) leading [tag]Rick Santorum[\/tag] (R), 47% to 41%, with [tag]Carl Romanelli[\/tag] (R) picking up 4%. Oddly enough, when respondents were asked the same question without Romanelli in the mix, the results were nearly identical, with Casey ahead, 48% to 41%. (thanks to Rege for the tip)<\/p>\n * Local GOP leaders in Texas’ 22nd district formally endorsed<\/a> Houston Councilwoman [tag]Shelley Sekula-Gibbs[\/tag]’ write-in campaign yesterday in the race to replace former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Sugarland Mayor [tag]David Wallace[\/tag] (R), however, is reportedly interested in continuing<\/a> his own write-in bid, even without the party’s support.<\/p>\n * In Nebraska, a new Rasmussen poll<\/a> shows incumbent Sen. [tag]Ben Nelson[\/tag] (D) continuing to enjoy a big lead over businessman [tag]Pete Ricketts[\/tag] (R), 55% to 32%. It’s a slight shift from last month’s poll, which showed Nelson ahead, 57% to 31%, but when the margin is this big, it hardly matters.<\/p>\n * Speaking of Nebraska, the gubernatorial race is even less competitive. According to Rasmussen<\/a>, Gov. [tag]Dave Heineman[\/tag]’s (R) re-election bid couldn’t be much more secure at this point — he now leads challenger [tag]David Hahn[\/tag] (D), 71% to 18%.<\/p>\n * In Wisconsin, a new Research 2000 poll<\/a> shows incumbent Gov. [tag]Jim Doyle[\/tag] (D) leading Rep. [tag]Mark Green[\/tag] (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race, 48% to 38%. The 10-point margin is slightly larger than the seven-point lead Doyle enjoyed in a similar poll a month ago. (via Teagan Goddard<\/a>)<\/p>\n * And, finally, in Florida, GOP activist [tag]Tramm Hudson[\/tag] (R), the leading candidate to replace Rep. Katherine Harris (R) in Florida’s 13th district, recently told<\/a> a Christian Coalition audience about a bridge-building exercise he did in the military in the 1970s. He explained, “I grew up in Alabama; I understand, I know this from my own experience, that blacks are not the greatest swimmers, and may not even know how to swim.” Hudson apologized<\/a> yesterday, explaining that he had said “something stupid.”<\/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: * Further proof that Pennsylvania’s Senate race is getting a little closer comes by way of a new Strategic Vision (R) vision poll, which shows [tag]Bob Casey[\/tag] (D) leading [tag]Rick Santorum[\/tag] (R), 47% […]<\/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-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","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=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}