Who are the most overrated candidates for 2010?

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For Governor-The most overratted candidate- Challenger.
AL- Arthur Davis-D
CA- Meg Whitman-R
CT- Lt Governor Michael Fedele-R
GA-Roy Barnes-D
HI-Duke Aoina-R
MD-Robert Ehrlich-R
MA-The GOP nominee-R
MI-John Cherry-D
Whoever the GOP nomination in MN.
NV-Rory Reid-D if Brian Sandoval-R is GOP nominee.
NY-Rick Lazio or Rudy-if Andrew Cuomo-D is DEM nominee.
OK-Democratic Nominee-D
PA-Democratic Nominee-D
VT- Brian Dubie-R
WI-Mark Neuman or Scott Walker-R.
For US Senate.
CA-Carly Foirana-R
DE- Michael Castle-R
IL-Mark Kirk-R
LA-Charlie Melancon-D

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Roy Blunt's Macaca
http://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks#p/u/471/-TAKLtEJevs

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Regarding Robin Carnahan-MO. her poll numbers are similar to Claire McCaskill's 2006 MO US Senate Race against Jim Talent than Bob Casey Jr. PA 2006 US Senate Race victory over Rick Santorum.
Robin Carnahan is running in a non friendly Democratic year in 2010 in a state that narrowly went for McCain. and her Republican opponent is more unpopular than Ashcroft and Talent.  Carnahan will defeat Blunt but it will be in the single digit margins.

Fisher-OH is a generic Democratic candidate. He narrowly won the 1990 OH AG Race when Voinovich was first elected Governor. He narrowly lost re-election in 1994 during the GOP wave- Voinovich-re-elected Governor, DeWine-elected US Senator, Strickland-lost re-election to his OH-6th district US House Seat- Republicans won ever statewide office in OH. In 1998- He narrowly lost the OH Governors Race to Bob Taft-this was before Coingate.etc. Republicans won every Statewide elected office. It took Bush,Taft,and Abramoff(Ney)- to help Sherrod Brown-unseat DeWine by a double digit margin. Strickland-Fisher defeat Blackwell by a landslide for the 2006 OH Governors Race. In 2010-Fisher is running against a GOP opponent who is more Conservative than DeWine and Voinovich but is not as Controversial as Ken Blackwell. The race is expected to be a pure tossup. It will coincide with the 2010 OH Governors Race.

Paul Hodes-NH will benifit from Kathy Ayotte getting bloodied in the GOP primary.

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Chain-Gang or Beef Cake Charlie Crist is a popular sitting Governor of Florida. The problem with Crist is he unpopular with the wingnuts of his party- who is doing everything to defeat him in the primary. If Crist is the nominee- He wins in the general election but if Crist loses. than their is a 50-50 chance of Senator Kendrick Meek occuring.

Carly Foiriana- is the Katherine Harris in the 2010 Senate Election cycle- she is DOA. She should be a great fundraising tool for Babs Boxer.

I would add Mark Kirk-IL and Mike Castle-DE as the most overrated candidates for 2010. While they are considered top tier candidate- they will lose badly in the general election.