TNA Racing Form: 8 Races to Watch
July 17, 2010
by Anna Belle Pfau
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Sweltering heat rocks the nation. Record highs are reported. Humidity hangs in the air, making a mockery of our evolution from gills. The dog days of summer are here and everything is slowing down, and even the media prepares to take a break in the coming weeks. Not here at TNA! We’ve got our eyes on the prize and the prize is more women in office. Now that primary season is over, it’s a good time to check the stats on some of the races involving female candidates. We consulted some polls and compiled a list of some of the races to watch this summer.
Gubernatorial Races
Meg Whitman (R-Cal): Meg Whitman is running a dead heat against her campaign challenger, former Gov. Jerry Brown. This is quite a feat for a supposed political novice and conservative in a blue state. Considering the dynamics in play, from Whitman’s wealth to Brown’s popularity to the fact that, if elected, Whitman would serve as the state’s first female Governor, this is one to watch.
Nikki Haley (R-SC): According to the most recent polls, Haley holds a cumulative 12 point lead over her challenger Vincent Sheheen in this red state. Polling is limited in this race for now.
Susana Martinez (R-NM) vs Diane Denish (D-NM): This race hasn’t received the attention it deserves, and it qualifies as a dream race. Whoever wins, New Mexico will get its first female governor this year. This race is a very nearly a dead heat right now, with Martinez inching ahead in polls.
Senate Races
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark): Lincoln, fresh off a hard fought primary challenge, is trailing her Republican challenger, Jim Boozman by a combined average of 22 points according to polls. This is not unusual considering the beating she took from elements of her own party during the hard-fought primary. Lincoln has 15 weeks to turn it around.
Linda McMahon (R-Conn): This is a tough race for McMahon. She and her challenger, Richard Blumenthal, are duking it out over Chris Dodd’s seat. So far Blumenthal is leading by double digits in this blue state.
Barbara Boxer (D-Cal) vs. Carly Fiorina: This is a dream race. Either way, this seat will be held by a woman. For now Boxer is edging Fiorina by a mere 3 percentage points. This race is anyone’s guess. For our agenda, it’s safe either way.
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): After being appointed to Hillary Clinton’s seat, Gillibrand is up for election for the seat. Judging by her commanding 17 point lead, New Yorkers like what they’ve seen.
Sharon Angle (R-NV): Angle is challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his Nevada seat. A new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review dominated headlines all day Friday. The reason this was big news was because this was the first poll outside the discredited Kos polls that had Reid in the lead. She has led him since December of last year, in fact. Now that’s news.
This list is not comprehensive and inclusion or exclusion should not be construed as endorsement or opposition. We’ll bring you updates on these and other races featuring female candidates as the campaign season wears on. Look for future editions of TNA’s Racing Form in the coming months. As always, feel free to update readers on your favorite races in comments!
May the best WOMEN win!!
Here’s another hot, hot, hot race to watch in 2012:
Hillary Clinton vs. Sarah Palin for President!
How about them apples?!?!?!?
Follow also a wonderful candidate who was discussed in a previous essay here Star Parker, starparker.com a black woman in a race here in California
Gillibrand is a sure thing, methinks. It’s the rare Democratic candidate who will carry New York ( almost a given for Democrats) AND upstate. She’s an upstater. She will win handily. Besides being very bright, she’s also a really nice person, in the Hillary kind of mold. Too bad all the boys are holding her down because there aren’t enough women in the Senate to band together and push back. She could be a very powerful force in the future. I think she has it all. She needs to get the H away from that seedy Chucky though.
I also think Whitman will take Brown and Haley will cruise into office.
Not so sure Carly will pull it off. That would be too bad, because in spite of her spoken conservatism, having suffered breast cancer, Carly is VERY aware of how women are being used as hockey pucks and bargaining chips at their own peril in health care, and she doesn’t like it ONE bit.
But then again, what the heck do I know?
I want ALL the women to win, including Angle. Like I’ve said before, voting women only gets you an 80% pretty-good rating, even including the ones I’d consider nutjobs. If I had odds like that, I’d be blogging from Vegas.
Then I’d be blogging from Bermuda.
I’m voting straight female ticket. So if you want my vote, put a woman on the ballot.
Another Woman endorsement by Gov Palin:
MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010
Kelly Ayotte for New Hampshire
It’s my honor to endorse a Granite State “mama grizzly” who has broken barriers, fought off and locked up criminals, and battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of New Hampshire parents – and won!
New Hampshire is lucky to have Kelly Ayotte as a candidate for the U.S. Senate this year. Kelly is a daughter of the Granite State, a product of its public schools, and its first female Attorney General. In her impressive five years in the AG’s office, Kelly earned a reputation for being tough on crime, supportive of law enforcement, and tireless in the defense of the rights of the people of New Hampshire. When Planned Parenthood challenged New Hampshire’s parental notification law, Kelly fought them all the way to the Supreme Court and won.
She’s the proud mother of two and the wife of a combat veteran who flew missions over Iraq and currently serves in the Air National Guard. Kelly and her husband started a small landscaping/snow removal business; so, she understands first hand the crushing burden Washington imposes on our small businesses. This pro-life, pro-family, anti-tax constitutional commonsense conservative is the Democrats’ biggest fear in November. They’re already running false ads against her weeks before even the primary election. And on top of that Kelly is facing attacks from a self-funded millionaire running with an R next to his name who likes Obamacare and cap-and-tax.
Kelly is the strongest commonsense conservative who can win in the fall. I knew I liked her when I met her earlier this year, and I know this Granite Grizzly will represent New Hampshire with distinction in Washington.
I’m not trying to be snarky, but I’m genuinely curious: I’ve seen “commonsense” in print a lot lately, as one word. Is that supposed to have a different connotation that “common sense”?
sugar, I found several modern day usages of the single word, websites and the like…the earliest usage I found was in Australia in 1912- so if your point was that Gov Palin made an error…that wouldnt be correct see Sydney Paper Nov 1912 or commensense media.com
http://news.google.com/newspap.....#038;hl=en
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