LA and NC 2014 Congressional Races

[RogueBeaver]

Cook gave a long talk on C-SPAN about '14 generally, but he said about LA that Landrieu's facing her toughest opponent yet without the benefit of a good Dem year. Cassidy isn't defined statewide, he doesn't think Jindal and the leg will affect Landrieu's race for now. Discussed NC a bit but basically said it hasn't really developed yet.

[windjammer]

But Landrieu is a bit a survivor, but yeah, Cassidy seems to be strong.

[RogueBeaver]

Roll Call on LA-Sen's downballot implications.

[Miles]

In case ya'll missed it, former Rep. Lindy Boggs (D) passed away today at the age of 97. Boggs' service began in 1973, after her husband, the venerable Hale Boggs, disappeared in a plane crash. She represented CD-2 and, even as the district was eventually drawn to be majority-minority, she was routinely reelected in landslides. From 1997 to 2001, she was the Ambassador to the Holy See.

Despite being one of the few women in Congress at the time, Boggs became one of its most respected members:

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Finally, Senator Landrieu always cited Congresswoman Boggs as one of her closest mentors.



Senator Landrieu's statement:

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[Miles]

Back up in NC, it looks like we have yet more conflicts of interests from this Assembly. Some seats on the UNC Board of Governors were flat-out sold off by Tillis:

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[windjammer]

I hope Tillis will continue to seek this seat

[illegaloperation]

Back up in NC, it looks like we have yet more conflicts of interests from this Assembly. Some seats on the UNC Board of Governors were flat-out sold off by Tillis:

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I read that yesterday. It's not that surprising.

[illegaloperation]

I hope Tillis will continue to seek this seat

Ditto

[Miles]

Interesting stuff.

Maybe if this were a "LA and NC 2006 Congresional Races" thread it would be more interesting.

So you have to go back to 2005 to find stuff to troll this thread with!? 'Maybe you need to step up your game!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Is this candidacy ending? God I hope so.

[RogueBeaver]

Ellmers isn't running for NC-Sen, just breaking now on Twitter. Said she's running for reelection.

[illegaloperation]

Ellmers isn't running for NC-Sen, just breaking now on Twitter. Said she's running for reelection.

It guess the nominee is going to be Tills.

[windjammer]

Sorry the Pubs, but if it's Tillis he has probably few chances to be elected.

[Miles]

But Ellmers was supposed to neutralize Hagan advantage with women!!!!

[Miles]

In the wake of this horrendous Assembly session, Planned Parenthood will be focused on registering voters.

[Miles]

I'm considering into going into grad school after I graduate this May, but I'm not sure I want to rack up the debt associated with it. Luckily, Virginia Foxx, in her capacity as House Higher Education Committee Chair, wants to help me out with that:

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[Miles]

Rob Maness will have a speaking slot at the RedState convention this weekend in New Orleans. Other heavier-hitters there include Jindal, Perry and Cruz. Greg Brannon, who's running in NC to the right of Tillis, will also be there.

If Maness and Brannon make a good impression, then tea party groups could likely get more invloved in their races.

[Miles]

On the Senate side, Cassidy was advoacting for new EPA restrictions, but was getting some pushback locally and from the White House:

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The LA Right to Life is pressuring Landrieu on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks. The legislation passed the House but, thankfully, Reid won’t bring it up for a vote in the Senate.

[illegaloperation]

guess what is on the front page of Politico?

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/north-carolina-senate-race-2014-kay-hagan-95025.html?hp=f1

[Miles]

Wow, awesome!

Another talking point that bugs me:

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She won by 9 points. She didn't need Obama to carry the state in 2012. Even in 2008, its not like she won off his coattails.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A lot of that though was from the Godless ad. I recall it being much closer before the ad was run.

[windjammer]

Poor North Carolina Yankee, with a NCdem becoming the same democratic party in national lever, and the gop becoming even more extremist, you won't like politics in NC in the future!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Poor North Carolina Yankee, with a NCdem becoming the same democratic party in national lever, and the gop becoming even more extremist, you won't like politics in NC in the future!

I would recommend you not speak to me in such manner going forward. It is not a wise decision.

I have never liked NC politics in the eleven years I have been in this state. The NC Democratic party has been the same as the national party for twenty years with a corrupt populist face (take your pick there are dozens, many of them are or should be convicted felons) to keep up the numbers in the rural areas.

I actually like our position now more then a few years ago politically speaking and I feel good that a non-state gov't/non-US House candidate with some message discipline and several million dollars would make Hagan eat her pro-amnesty, pro-Obamacare voting record.

The biggest problem for McCrory right now is the economy. If unemployment starts dropping, then he should recover the same way that Kasich and Walker have. He has three and a half years to make that happen and as long as the GOP Senate candidate isn't a member of state government, the attention will be Hagan and her pro-Obama voting record,  not what has happened in Raleigh.

That is what I think the article is saying, that Hagan faces an electorate even more anti-Obama then the one that voted for Romney by about 100,000 votes last November and now she has to defend the votes she has cast for Obama's agenda in an even more hostile environment, whereas before she was the outsider running against an establishment insider, who in a bad year for the GOP ran perhaps one of the biggest blunders of a Senate campaign that whole decade.

[Fusionmunster]

Fresh polls!

The good people of Louisiana are fed up with their rampant leftist Senator.

Its a GOP push poll. Take it with a grain of salt. Had to register because i couldn't let that be unsaid. No only that, but Magellan got the Colorado governor race so horribly wrong that its hard to take them seriously. Maybe if they do well this cycle but untill then there polls seem pretty GOP leaning and the questions they ask dont help their case.

[windjammer]

Poor North Carolina Yankee, with a NCdem becoming the same democratic party in national lever, and the gop becoming even more extremist, you won't like politics in NC in the future!

I would recommend you not speak to me in such manner going forward. It is not a wise decision.

I have never liked NC politics in the eleven years I have been in this state. The NC Democratic party has been the same as the national party for twenty years with a corrupt populist face (take your pick there are dozens, many of them are or should be convicted felons) to keep up the numbers in the rural areas.

I actually like our position now more then a few years ago politically speaking and I feel good that a non-state gov't/non-US House candidate with some message discipline and several million dollars would make Hagan eat her pro-amnesty, pro-Obamacare voting record.

The biggest problem for McCrory right now is the economy. If unemployment starts dropping, then he should recover the same way that Kasich and Walker have. He has three and a half years to make that happen and as long as the GOP Senate candidate isn't a member of state government, the attention will be Hagan and her pro-Obama voting record,  not what has happened in Raleigh.

That is what I think the article is saying, that Hagan faces an electorate even more anti-Obama then the one that voted for Romney by about 100,000 votes last November and now she has to defend the votes she has cast for Obama's agenda in an even more hostile environment, whereas before she was the outsider running against an establishment insider, who in a bad year for the GOP ran perhaps one of the biggest blunders of a Senate campaign that whole decade.

I don't see how I have offended you, but sorry if it was the case, I don't search fight with you.

Well, corruption seems to be a north carolina problem. Both parties seem to have many corruption problems, the  NC dem,the NC gop now with Tillis,...