Help Good Candidates Ride the Big Red Wave
I’m getting overwhelmed with all of the new challengers getting profiled in the blogs I read. So I’m going to try to make sense of them here. I’ve got three categories: candidates who can win but are clearly underdogs, candidates who are in a close race, and candidates who are currently running ahead but are drawing fire.
I have not given money to all of these candidates. I have given far more money this year than all other years combined.
I will be updating this page (and bumping it to the top when I do) whenever I get new info or new profiles.
Other resources
- 40 Phone Calls From Home
- “You can do something—right now—to rescue your Country. If you have a phone with you, you can do it from where you are sitting. The question is: will you?”
- Be The Wave
- A still-in-progress project by Ace of Ace of Spades HQ, and others. Keep an eye on it!
- Fire Fifty: Tea Party Supported Candidates for Congress in 2010
- Saw this over on Ace of Spades: a compilation of potential pick-up seats, with the hopes of firing fifty members of congress this year.
- If it’s going to be hand-to-hand combat, let’s go prepared.
- If you want to specifically help veterans, californiasam has compiled a list of competitive candidates who are also “tested warriors”.
- Take Back the 20
- SarahPAC has identified twenty House districts that voted for McCain/Palin in 2008 and whose representatives voted for the health takeover. That’s very smart targeting, as each of those incumbents should be vulnerable to a good challenger. If you want help take back the 20, they’ve got the tools to help you help the challengers!
- Vets for Freedom
- Vets for Freedom has a targeted list of ten candidates who can win with your help. If the other list was too long, and you want to help some veterans run for office, take a look at this.
Hang tough, underdog!
These are my favorite candidates, because who doesn’t love an underdog? But they are also good candidates with a chance to win. They’ve been putting on good campaigns and in most cases are far closer than anyone would have expected. But they will need your help to pull themselves over the line!
- Sean Bielat (MA-4)
- What can I say except, When he’s not killing terrorists, he’s building fuckin’ robots! If we want real reform next year, it will help a lot if Barney Frank, the guy who enabled the mortgage meltdown, is gone.
- John Dennis (CA-8)
- Will he win? Conventional wisdom says no. On the other hand, conventional wisdom also says that when your opponent isn’t even in the race, you have a good chance for an upset. Fun ad from Ladd Ehlinger.
- Mattie Fein (CA-36)
- If the CA-36 Republican party is anything like San Diego’s, it’s a mess of corruption and back-room dealing. They say power corrupts, but helplessness is just as bad—the difference is, you can work on fixing your cluelessness, and Fein is doing a good job of forcing the Republicans to take notice.
- Carly Fiorina (CA Senate)
- You have to read Fiorina’s life story to believe it. She went from secretary to CEO, turned a failing company around, got stabbed in the back by the old guard in that company, survived cancer, and now is mounting a credible campaign against Barbara Boxer as a fiscal conservative—in California. I fully expected Boxer to hold that Senate seat until she died.
- Marty Lamb (MA-3)
- From R.S. McCain, reporting from Massachusetts: “Marty Lamb doesn’t just talk about the American Dream, he lives the American Dream. He’s a small-town lawyer, a citizen who felt the call to serve, with no ambition to become a career politician. And unlike Jim McGovern, Marty believes in the Constitution.”
- Jason Levesque (ME-2)
- To quote Slublog on the Ace of Spades: “Michaud’s inability to say no to Nancy Pelosi has helped lead this country into frightening levels of debt. Help send a fiscally conservative small business owner to Congress and take away one of Nancy Pelosi’s Blue Lapdogs.”
- Linda McMahan (CT Senate)
- I used to watch WWF sporadically back in the eighties. As I recall, it was the Hulk Hogan era. If anything can prepare a businessperson for the shenanigans that go on in congress, having to deal with those hormonally-imbalanced prima donnas ought to do it.
- Kristi Noem (SD-AL)
- “The best government is that which governs least.” I think that’s Zen. No, seriously. And it’s smart Zen, too. Wow! GOP South Dakota Superstar Kristi Noem Raises $1.1 Million in 3rd Quarter
- Christine O’Donnell (DE Senate)
- No, the polls aren’t good. But Delaware is a small state, and a dedicated candidate can talk to a lot of people in four weeks—if she has the money and volunteers to do it. O’Donnell has shown that she can take on the establishment; people seem to have quickly forgotten that she beat the establishment in the primaries when nobody thought she could do it. She ran a strong ground campaign against Mike Castle. The only reason she’s not doing as well as some of the others on this list, in my opinion, is that this earned her the ire of the party elite on both sides of the aisle.1 Normally, that’s the kiss of death, and it might be in this election as well—but if there’s any year where that might be a plus, it’s this one.
- I also can’t help but see a huge generation gap here: the main strikes against her in the media are that she was goth in high school and took a long time to pay off her college bills.
- Star Parker (CA-37)
- Just a bit north of me. Parker’s clearly an underdog, but she’s one with style, class, and a whole lot of energy. Listen to her speak and you’ll think she’s going to win. With your help, maybe she will! Or, as La Shawn Barber wrote, “A woman who thinks like that needs to run for office.”
- Morgan Philpot (UT-2)
- Philpot wants to help restore fiscal common sense in Washington.
- Joel Pollak (IL-9)
- “Only 44% of voters say that Schakowsky deserves to be re-elected… This is a race that was supposed to be a cakewalk in one of the most Democratic seats in the nation.” And you have to like this from the candidate’s web site: “We should fix the economy before creating new prohibitions or spending money on new entitlements.”
- Nick Popaditch (CA-51)
- I’ve been following Nick for a while now—he’s running just south of me. And I agree with Matt Burden’s assessment over at Blackfive: Where do we find such men? He’s a dynamic person and a real star at Southern California tea party events.
- Jacob Turk (MO-5)
- Proud to be a tea partier.
Close races
These candidates are winning in some polls. But they are in close races and need every extra vote they can get to keep from going into a recount. For some reason that leaves mathematicians baffled, Republicans don’t tend to win in recounts.
- Sharron Angle (NV Senate)
- Angle is running a grassroots campaign against the most powerful man in the Senate and she’s holding her own. But she’s going to need a lot of help on the ground to win with the margin needed against a politician like Harry Reid.
- Fran Becker (NY-4)
- Ace: “Republican internal poll shows challenger for NY-4, Fran Becker, on the verge of taking out McCarthy.”
- Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25)
- From R.S. McCain: “The Cook Political Report just downgraded Maffei’s seat from likely Democrat to lean Democrat, and if you’ll go support Ann Marie Buerkle, it might be rated a toss-up by the time we get there.”
- Sam Caligiuri (CT-5)
- The last sane man in Hartford? I think that was a Simon and Garfunkel song. As mayor of Waterbury, he “dismantled the system of patronage that was awarding the bulk of the city’s legal work to politically-connected lawyers.” True ethics reform is a good thing.
- Francisco Canseco (TX-23)
- Oh my. I believe they call this red meat: “I believe the massive growth of the federal government comes at the expense of our personal liberty, responsibilities to ourselves and families, and the ability of entrepreneurial Americans to create job opportunities through a free and open marketplace.”
- Renee Ellmers (NC-7)
- Ellmers supports the fair tax to replace the income tax and get rid of IRS paperwork and “April 15th hell”.
- Bill Flores (TX-17)
- Flores will vote with us.
- Chris Gibson (NY-20)
- Hey, according to DrewM, He’s a fellow Cornell alum. He’s also going against a “blue dog” who gave in to Pelosi and voted for the health takeover.
- Andy Harris (MD-1)
- Doctor, Navy man, husband, father, and strong advocate for free markets and free citizens.
- Ron Johnson (WI Senate)
- Russ Feingold seems to be forgetting about campaign ethics now that he’s in a tough fight. Of course, since his “reforms” were all about keeping incumbents in power, he probably didn’t expect to have to worry about a candidate like Ron Johnson.
- Jesse Kelly (AZ-8)
- Quoted on Ace of Spades: “Bipartisanship in Washington means Republicans selling out their conservative principles in order to appear nice on MSNBC.”
- Mark Kirk (IL Senate)
- This race is seesawing back and forth in the polls; which may be an indicator of how unreliable polls are this year, or it may be that this is Illinois. This is technically President Obama’s seat, but of course, “It was never really Obama’s seat per se. I mean he only sat there for two years.” (Dr. John Brehm, University of Chicago political science professor, to the Daily Caller)
- Ruth McClung (AZ-7)
- Challenger Ruth McClung, a real life rocket scientist, were in a dead heat, even though Washington prognosticators have declared the deep-blue seat safely Democratic.
- George Phillips (NY-22)
- You want bipartisanship? You want George Phillips.
- Dino Rossi (WA Senate)
- He supports the number one true reform for health insurance costs: “Give individuals the same tax deductions as businesses.”
- Rob Steele (MI-15)
- “The difference in a lot of these out-of-nowhere contests is the ground game. ” That’s where you can help.
- Allen West (FL-22)
- “Hell with a can of gasoline.”
I lived in New York for several years. Upstate New York is a beautiful area, and in my dreams the political climate gets enough better that I can choose to move their. That’s why I take a bigger interest in New York candidates. But don’t worry if you live elsewhere, I’ve got a whole bunch more close races coming.
Running ahead in dangerous races
These candidates are ahead, but it’s a bit of a surprise that they’re either ahead or in the race at all. Some of them, such as Joe Miller, have really pissed off the establishment. Others have only pissed off the media. If helplessness corrupts, the media is feeling mighty helpless right about now. They are going to try and kill these candidates by any means necessary, whether it’s rigging polls to favor write-in candidates or just making shit up and hoping it sticks until November 2.
- Ken Buck (CO Senate)
- The media is desperately trying to pin something on Buck, even taking smart and compassionate prosecutorial decisions from his time as district attorney and twisting them out of context.
- Matt Doheny (NY-23)
- Doheny appears to be running well ahead of Owens, but Owens is trying the same tricks he tried last year: promise that he’ll be a conservative.2 We can expect that New York voters have learned their lesson, but it would still be nice to see Doug Hoffman’s endorsement carry some weight in this district. Make sure Matt Doheny wins NY-23.
- Joe Miller (AK Senate)
- Alaska is producing some great libertarian-centrists, if I can coin a term. I’m still not sure the Republican establishment wouldn’t prefer to see Miller go down. However, it’s the media leading the charge against him, mainly by running polls that list his write-in opponent as if she weren’t a write in, artificially inflating her poll numbers. They’re trying to give her a momentum she wouldn’t otherwise have. This is a critical election for those who believe Senate seats don’t belong to royal families. The media was caught by surprise when Brown won Massachusetts, but they have learned.
- Jeff Perry (MA-10)
- Another Massachusetts politician running on repealing Obamacare.
- John Raese (WV Senate)
- Yes, he’s running ahead, but we’re talking Robert Byrd’s seat here. It’s been Democrat since 1949. Byrd himself held the seat since 1959. The more Raese pulls ahead, the more dirty tricks we can expect.
Unfortunately, some writers who should have known better bought into it at least temporarily. That was all the cover the ruling class needed to go all in without fear of ridicule. And the potential for ridicule is obvious: Maher discovers goth 25 years later, panics! This just in: college is expensive shit! Media criticizes LinkedIn UI, Film at 11. It’s all bullshit.
↑You know, they keep telling us how liberal Delaware is, too. And yet I just finished watching the debate and Coons was falling all over himself running to the right, especially on immigration.
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California
- Carly for California
- "Tax, spend and borrow is not a governing philosophy it’s a cycle of dependency; One that must be broken."
- Fein to GOP Old Guard: WAKE UP!: Mattie Fein at The Other McCain
- “Voters in 2010 are not being swayed by the anointment of the Good Ol’ Boys in the GOP’s picks to run for office. They are rejecting the career politicians and the system; the O’Donnell win is representative of this.”
- Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch—the Cigar Marine—and Someone You Should Know: Matt Burden at Blackfive
- “Meet an amazing American from Hammond, Indiana, Nick Popaditch, the Cigar Marine. I swear to you, at the end of this article, you'll be asking yourself, ‘Where do we find such men?’”
- John Dennis for Congress
- “A platform of freedom to defeat Pelosi.”
- John Dennis: I'm Going To Beat Nancy Pelosi In Her Own Damn District: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Someone is going to get shocked in November; why not Nancy?”
- Mattie Fein for Congress
- “Some Members of Congress are eager to hike taxes to support government spending sprees at the expense of credit to private enterprise. Every dollar taxed is a dollar diverted from businesses and households. At current tax rates, the government is taking our paychecks and salaries until Wednesday or Thursday of every work week. Taxes should be made fair and simple. Hard work should be rewarded and indolence discouraged.”
- Popaditch For Congress 2012
- “Government solutions to everyday problems are not ‘free,’ efficient, or effective. Every Government ‘solution’ comes with a price tag and requires a sacrifice of some of your individual freedom.”
- Star Parker for Congress
- “…despite the political spin in Washington, this is nothing more than a smokescreen to impose a tax on business that will hurt not only businesses, but particularly distributors, and will ultimately hurt the consumer.”
- Star Parker Running for Congress: La Shawn Barber at Michelle Malkin
- “In Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do About It, Parker traced the shift in America’s attitude from a belief in strong families and hard work to the flawed idea that the government’s role is to solve social problems.”
House of Representatives
- Allen West for Congress
- “I will curb out of control Government spending, I will work towards across the board tax cuts, I will fight tirelessly to bring jobs back to South Florida. We must realize that American Exceptionalism depends on a strong and robust economy, which means that the fight begins here at home.”
- Andy Harris for U.S. Congress
- “…the American free market system has produced the highest level of prosperity enjoyed by any society, ever. But the American job machine is being strangled by excessive taxation and regulation that is destroying incentive, capital investment and job creation. Small businesses, not the government, are the backbone of the American economy.”
- Bill Flores for Congress :: 17th District
- “The majority party in Congress is dominated by two types of Representatives: those who believe new government programs coupled with increased taxes are ALWAYS the answer or those who lack the courage to stand up and stop this madness. All of us know that spending beyond our means does not create prosperity.”
- Canseco for Congress
- “I believe the massive growth of the federal government comes at the expense of our personal liberty, responsibilities to ourselves and families, and the ability of entrepreneurial Americans to create job opportunities through a free and open marketplace.”
- Dr. Rob Steele for Congress
- “The tax system must be flatter, fairer and simpler for the taxpayer at a level that does not punish success. We cannot allow special interests and lobbyists to have their own line in the tax code.”
- For Congress: Andy Harris, MD-1: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “From write-in campaigns, to running as independents, to endorsing the Democratic challenger—the ruling class establishment seems to be its own party with its own membership and its own interests, and official party label doesn't seem to matter that much to them.”
- For Congress: Bill Flores, TX-17: Dave In Texas at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Flores will vote with us.”
- For Congress: Francisco Canseco, TX-23: Dave In Texas at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Canseco is a businesman and family man, who actually knows something about creating jobs, meeting a payroll, something an awful lot of those in Congress know damn little about.”
- For Congress: Jacob Turk, MO-5: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Unbeatable? Not so: A private Rasmussen poll shows him down a mere 6-9 points. And he was down 20 a couple of months ago.”
- For Congress: Jason Levesque, ME-2: Slublog at Ace of Spades HQ
- “If you can, help send a fiscally conservative small business owner to Congress and take away one of Nancy Pelosi’s Blue Lapdogs.”
- For Congress: Jesse Kelly AZ-8: DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ
- ”Bipartisanship in Washington means Republicans selling out their conservative principles in order to appear nice on MSNBC.”
- For Congress: Sam Caligiuri, CT-5: LauraW at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Caligiuri is an NRCC ‘Young Gun,’ and has pledged to oppose all tax increases and to fight the implementation of government-controlled health care.”
- High Heels and Socialism
- “I like bringing up high heels as an example because a lot of politicians wear them to try to look good. But if you’re trying to do something practical they just don’t work. It’s kind of like socialism.”
- HOLY COW! Republican AZ-7 Challenger McClung Now in ‘Dead Heat’ with Grijalva: Robert Stacy McCain at The Other McCain
- “…an excellent candidate running a g0od grassroots campaign and, as always, I love a scrappy underdog. Grijalva’s stupidity in calling for a boycott of his own state was so remarkable as to deserve another mention.”
- Jason Levesque for Congress
- Candidate for the House in Maine’s district 2. “We need real reform including small business pooling, tax incentives for small businesses that provide insurance, allow people to cross state lines to purchase health insurance, reform medical malpractice so that doctors are practicing medicine first—not worrying about the defense attorney in the exam room.”
- Jesse Kelly for U.S. Congress
- “Jesse made the decision to run for Congress the day President Obama signed the wasteful, $787 billion stimulus package. He will fight for solutions that work in order to create jobs and get the economy moving again.”
- Joel Pollak for Congress
- “We should fix the economy before creating new prohibitions or spending money on new entitlements.”
- Kristi Noem for Congress
- “America was built by people who longed for freedom, believed in individual responsibility and knew that government should serve the people—not the other way around. It is still true today, that the best government is the government that governs least.”
- Meet Morgan Philpot for Utah’s 2nd District!: Whitney Pitcher at Conservatives 4 Congress
- “Philpot supports extending the Bush tax cuts, reducing the corporate tax rate, ratifying free trade agreements, and reducing government's role in business to help put people back to work. He supports repeal of Obamacare and both earmark and entitlement reform to help restore fiscal common sense in Washington.”
- OMG, A New Poll Has Sexy Heart Doctor Rob Steele Ahead of John Dingell: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Dr. Steele is as compelling a candidate as you can want, and he’s got an action-movie name so like, Dingell’s done.”
- Philpot for Congress
- “We have a government that is designed with specific checks and balances on federal and state authority. It is time to renew our commitment to these most fundamental tenets.”
- Renee Ellmers for Congress
- “I’m a nurse and my husband is a doctor. There are right ways and wrong ways to improve health care. Obamacare is the wrong way.”
- Renee Ellmers: I Won’t Increase Your Taxes. Bob “The Strangler” Etheridge Already Did: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “I met Renee Ellmers, candidate for Representative of NC-2, at BlogCon. She wanted to get her name out there, I guess, and certainly didn't mind mixing it up with silly bloggers to do it. She doesn’t mind mixing with her constituents and the common folk—you know, like Barney Frank.”
- Ruth McClung for Arizona Congressional District 7
- “As a nation, we face many complex challenges requiring innovative solutions. I am committed to limiting our government and defending our Constitution. Working as a physicist, I understand the importance of finding the right solution instead of causing new problems. Maybe it does take a rocket scientist.”
- Sam Caligiuri
- “As acting mayor, Sam led one of the most aggressive municipal ethics reform efforts in Connecticut history. He transformed the city’s corrupt process for awarding towing contracts into a merit-based approach focused solely on a company’s qualifications. Sam began dismantling the system of patronage that was awarding the bulk of the city’s legal work to politically-connected lawyers.”
- Turk For Congress
- “Medical care is so expensive because the market force of the consumers, the actual patients, making decisions about how much to spend and where are removed from the medical care system. It is time to help patients bring down the costs of our nation’s health care.”
- What do you call a multiterm Democratic incumbent: CAC at Ace of Spades HQ
- “…polling at 48% in a district they win by over 70%?”
- Wow! GOP South Dakota Superstar Kristi Noem Raises $1.1 Million in 3rd Quarter: Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit
- “Noem may need the cash. Herseth-Sandlin is a moderate Democrat with a proven ability to win, and win big, in South Dakota. She decimated her Republican opponent in 2008 with nearly 70 percent of the vote, even as the state voted overwhelming against Barack Obama.”
Massachusetts
- Cool Facts About Sean Bielat: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “He's just about as great a candidate as you could hope for, and Barney Frank’s district actually voted for Brown over Coakley. You can’t not elect this buy. Check out his bio.”
- Democrat Jim McGovern: ‘Silly’ to Blame Him for ‘Constitution Is Wrong’ Gaffe: Robert Stacy McCain at The Other McCain
- “[The 3rd district is] a gerrymandered mess that runs all the way from central Massachusetts around Worcester down to Somerset and Narragansett Bay. McGovern was first elected in 1996 and has subsequently won re-election by margins of 3-to-1 or even 4-to-1 margins. Yet Scott Brown won 58% of the 3rd District vote in January, and if Sean Bielat can challenge Barney Frank in the 4th District—where Brown’s margin was much narrower—there’s no reason Marty Lamb can’t win the 3rd District.”
- Jeff Perry for Congress
- “From bailouts and giveaways, to ethical scandals, improper influences of special interests, backroom deals and partisan bickering, Americans are not getting what they need or deserve from their government.”
- MA-10 GOP Candidate Jeff Perry Talks About Democrat ‘Smear and Fear’ Attacks: Robert Stacy McCain at The Other McCain
- “Republican Jeff Perry is leading in the race for the open seat in Massachusetts District 10. Perry is state legislator and former police officer, author of a book called My GOP, which explains his Reagan-inspired philosophy. Democrats have unleashed a slew of smear ads on Perry.”
- Marty Lamb for Congress
- “As a business owner, I never sign a contract without reading it first. Hence, when Congress is dealing with legislation costing millions, billions and trillions, they need to read it.”
- Sean Bielat for Congress
- “It’s time for a change—just look at the current state of the economy, or our political leadership’s focus on redistributing wealth rather than creating prosperity, or the idea that government should be continually expanded to address any and all problems. We need legislators who embrace their responsibilities under the Constitution and represent the values and needs of their constituents. Our Congress should be of the people and for the people. We need new leadership in Congress and a new voice for Massachusetts.”
New York
- Buerkle For Congress
- “The real foundation for economic renewal lies in lower taxes and smaller government, not government bailouts and new entitlement programs. The problem with government isn’t a matter of enough tax revenue; it’s a matter of politicians spending like the American taxpayer is just a massive money tree!”
- Chris Gibson for Congress
- “He will fight for smaller Government, reduced spending, and lower taxes. He will fight to return fiscal responsibility in Washington. He will stand against socialized health care, fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid and Medicare system while advocating for increased competition and tort reform.”
- Democratic Mass Extinction Event: Hinchey, McCarthy, Maffei In Trouble: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Is no one safe?”
- Elect George Phillips
- “George firmly believes we need to stop penalizing entrepreneurship and hard work. The current Congressional majority talks about jobs a great deal, but continues to propose and maintain policies and programs which hinder economic recovery and growth in employment.”
- Exclusive: Ed Koch endorsing George Phillips in NY-22 race: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air
- “This not only gives Phillips high-profile bipartisan support for his challenge to Hinchey, it also gives Phillips the kind of policy heft that most challengers usually lack in Congressional races.” (Hat tip to Ace at Ace of Spades HQ)
- For Congress: Chris Gibson, NY-20: DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ
- “Gibson is a recently retired Army Colonel (he was in Haiti with the 82nd Airborne doing relief missions, just weeks before retiring and announcing his candidacy). He’s running on an anti-spending, anti-tax and pro conservative/market based reform of health care platform.”
- For Congress: Matt Doheny NY-23: DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ
- “How nervous are the Democrats about this race? Owens is now running ads touting how much he voted with John Boehner. The GOP says Owens is a lying SOB.”
- Fran Becker for U.S. Congress
- “Washington needs a lesson in financial planning.”
- Matt Doheny for Congress—NY23
- “At a time when the federal government is running historic deficits and the nation is coming out of the worst recession since the depression, people in the 23rd Congressional District need bold new ideas.”
- NY-25: Ann Marie Buerkle: Robert Stacy McCain at The Other McCain
- “Democrats are pretending to be worried that there won’t be as many women in the next Congress. Yeah, ask some of those Hillary supporters how much Democrats care about electing women. When it suits their purpose, Democrats are atrociously sexist. How about some of you PUMAs go give Ann Marie Buerkle $50?” (Hat tip to Ace at Ace of Spades HQ)
Senate
- Buck for Colorado
- “Colorado’s appointed U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has quickly become part of the problem and is turning out to be just another reliable rubber stamp for the big spending, big government leaders in Congress. Bennet voted for the 800 billion dollar stimulus bill, admitting that he hadn’t even read the bill.”
- Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate
- “Fighting for the First State”
- Dino Rossi for Senate
- “Congress’ health care ‘reform’ bill was crafted by a series of backroom deals with liberal special interests, pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry. It was designed to help special interests, not the American people. We need to repeal the bill and replace it with common-sense bipartisan proposals that give power to patients and doctors not government and insurance companies.”
- Joe Miller for U.S. Senate
- “I will work to limit Washington to the constitutional powers anticipated by our Founders. The future of our nation is truly in the balance and the status quo of the last several years in Washington will drive us into further fiscal insanity.”
- John Raese for Senate
- “Before you invest in my campaign, you have a right to know where I stand. I’m a proud, life-long, down-the-line conservative businessman who’ll stand up to Big Government takeovers, end the wasteful spending, stand for life, and always defend your Second Amendment rights. There won’t be any doubt how I’ll vote in the U.S. Senate.”
- Ken Buck for U.S. Senate—“Ignore Us” at Buck for Colorado
- “Ken Buck is standing up for the people of Colorado who have been ignored by Michael Bennet and politicians in Washington D.C. for too long.” (Hat tip to DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ)
- Linda McMahon for Senate
- “This election will be a choice between an outsider running to shake up Washington and a lifelong politician looking for a promotion.”
- Mark Kirk—United States Senate
- “Allow Americans to buy cheaper and more flexible health insurance from any state in the nation; Give individuals who buy their own insurance the same tax break employers receive.”
- O’Donnell: ‘I’m an average citizen’ at O’Donnell on the Maher tapes
- “In a CNN exclusive interview, CNN’s Jim Acosta talks with Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell.” (Hat tip to Nicole Coulter at Conservatives 4 Congress)
- Polls show Republican Mark Kirk leading in race to take Senate seat once held by President Obama: Caroline May at The Daily Caller
- “The polling numbers coming out of Illinios in the race to take President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat are yet another indication that Democrats are facing an unfriendly electorate this year.”
- Raese now leads Manchin by 6 in Rasmussen poll: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air
- “The rest of the numbers, though, look terrible for Democrats in a state where voters have the option of essentially choosing both candidates—keeping Manchin in the governor’s mansion and putting a Republican in the US Senate to block Barack Obama’s agenda.”
- Ron Johnson
- “It’s simple math for anyone but the Washington insiders. The more government spends, the more government will eventually have to take from you, your children, your grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Robbing the bank accounts of future generations of Americans while creating unsustainable debt is a threat to our freedom and we must stand together to stop it.”
- Sharron Angle for U.S. Senate
- “Repeal and replace Obamacare; Elimination of coverage mandates; Expanded client pools; Tort reform; Allow citizens to purchase insurance across state lines; Create tax credited health savings accounts.”
- Smearing Ken Buck: Michelle Malkin
- “Voters in Colorado should treat this bottom-of-the-barrel attack the same way voters in New Mexico treated a similar attack on GOP gubernatorial candidate and district attorney Susana Martinez: With utter contempt.”
other
- 40 Phone Calls From Home
- “You can do something—right now—to rescue your Country. If you have a phone with you, you can do it from where you are sitting. The question is: will you?” (Hat tip to Ace at Ace of Spades HQ)
- Be The Wave: Ace
- A still-in-progress project by Ace of Ace of Spades HQ, and others. Keep an eye on it!
- Fire Fifty: Tea Party Supported Candidates for Congress in 2010
- Saw this over on Ace of Spades: a compilation of potential pick-up seats, with the hopes of firing fifty members of congress this year.
- If it’s going to be hand-to-hand combat, let’s go prepared.: californiasam at RedState
- If you want to specifically help veterans, californiasam has compiled a list of competitive candidates who are also “tested warriors”.
- Take Back the 20 at SarahPAC
- SarahPAC has identified twenty House districts that voted for McCain/Palin in 2008 and whose representatives voted for the health takeover. That’s very smart targeting, as each of those incumbents should be vulnerable to a good challenger. If you want help take back the 20, they’ve got the tools to help you help the challengers!
- Vets for Freedom
- Vets for Freedom has a targeted list of ten candidates who can win with your help. If the other list was too long, and you want to help some veterans run for office, take a look at this. (Hat tip to Nicole Coulter at Conservatives 4 Congress)
More Election 2010
- Don’t mess with the deck chairs, fix the boat!
- Advice for the incoming House. Make them deny it! And don’t try to fool us by changing the deck chairs.
- End of media; to delete this media…
- There will be a crisis: but this time they got caught manufacturing their crisis. And it’s a crisis of a most despicable kind: falsely tying a candidate to child molestation.
- San Diego’s proposition D: tax first, reform afterward
- San Diego’s proposition D is an attempt to raise taxes and then reform—which is, of course, an attempt to raise taxes and not reform anything at all.
- Nick Popaditch debates Bob Filner in CA-51
- Popaditch comes off as far more responsive to the needs of the community in this debate.
- There will be lies
- The media takes a blunder by Coons on the first amendment—and outright changes what both candidates said to make it look like a blunder by O’Donnell.
- 10 more pages with the topic Election 2010, and other related pages
Remember: Trump reassures crowd after assassination attempt fails. (read more…)
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