SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
POLITICS THE NATION Tuesday’s key races: Primary primer
& By Chris Cillizza and Karen Yourish
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Sharron Angle
The Republican race for the right to challenge embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D) could go in a number of directions Tuesday. Former state assemblywoman Sharron
Angle enters primary day as the slight front-runner, due in part to significant expenditures from the Club for Growth— among other conservative third-party groups — on her behalf. But former state party chairman Sue
Lowden, who hamstrung her once-front-running campaign by suggesting a barter system for health care, remains in the game because of her considerable personal spending. And then there is businessman Danny Tarkanian, who has hung around as Angle has risen and Lowden has fallen. He is the son of Jerry Tarkanian, the former UNLV men’s basketball coach.
Sue Lowden
Republican primary
$3.2 million $3.0 million
Sharron Angle
$1.3 million $1.1 million
Money raised Money spent
Danny Tarkanian
$1.5 million $1.4 million
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Republican primary
Meg Whittman
Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman’s first foray into electoral politics has been a roller-coaster ride. Whitman began her run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination as an unknown but quickly changed that by spending tens of millions of dollars on her campaign. That money paid for ads making the case to Californians that putting a businesswoman in the governor’s office was the best — only? — solution to the state’s fiscal problems. Then came a series of attack ads from
state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner (R) that painted Whitman as liberal on immigration. Whitman’s poll numbers plummeted — until she turned her focus to shoring up her ideological right flank on the issue. That mission accomplished, Whitman’s polls began to recover and now most neutral observers expect her to cruise to victory over Poizner on Tuesday.
Meg Whitman
$83 million $80 million
Steve Poizner
$28 million $24 million
Money spent
Money raised Money spent
Tom Campbell Former Hewlett Packard chief
executive Carly Fiorina appears to have pulled away from former congressman Tom Campbell in the final weeks of the race for the Republican Senate nomination, relying on personal wealth to fund ads and on an endorsement from ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin to build momentum.
Campbell, who switched from the
governor’s race earlier this year, long held the lead thanks to residual name identification from his unsuccessful 1992 and 2000 Senate runs. A third candidate, state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, is running as the true conservative in the race but has gained little traction. Fiorina’s campaign launched an ad last week taking on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) — an early general election jab.
Carly Fiorina
Republican primary
$7.4 million $6.7 million
Chuck DeVore
$2.3 million $2.1 million
Tom Campbell
$2.6 million $1.7 million
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1SOUTH CAROLINA DISTRICT 1 Republican primary: Paul Thurmond vs. Carroll Campbell III vs. Tim Scott The offspring of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond and the late Gov. Carroll Campbell could be edged out by Tim Scott, the first black GOP state representative since Reconstruction.
Bill Halter and Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln is hoping to avoid becoming the third sitting senator to lose an intraparty fight this year, but even her closest allies acknowledge that her Democratic runoff race against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is a tossup. Three weeks ago, Lincoln got 44.5 percent of the vote to Halter’s 42.5 percent in the Democratic primary. A third candidate in that race, conservative D.C. Morrison, won 13 percent, forcing Lincoln and Halter into Tuesday’s runoff. Much like the primary, the runoff has
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pitted Lincoln and her supporters within the Democratic establishment — former president Bill Clinton has campaigned for her and she has been endorsed by President Obama — against organized labor, which has dumped millions of dollars into ads and voter identification programs on Halter’s behalf.
012 3 4 5 678 Sen. Blanche Lincoln
Democratic primary runoff
$7.7 million 012 3 $6.5 million 4 Lt. Gov. Bill Halter
Money raised Money spent
$3.4 million $2.9 million
5 678
Andre Bauer, left, J. Gresham Barrett, Henry McMaster and Nikki Haley.
The GOP race to replace scandal-tainted Mark Sanford has turned into a sideshow, with state Rep. Nikki Haley surging in polls even as several men have alleged having affairs with her. She has denied any infidelity. Haley is widely expected to advance to
a June 22 runoff — a near certainty with no candidate expected to win 50 percent. Rep. J. Gresham Barrett, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and Attorney General Henry McMaster are also seeking the GOP nod.
Rep. Gresham Barrett
Republican primary
Money raised Money spent
$2.7 million $2.0 million
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer
$1.8 million $1.1 million
Henry McMaster (S.C. attorney general)
$2.0 million $1.5 million
Nikki Haley
$0.87 million $0.48 million
1 VIRGINIA DISTRICT 5 Republican primary: Robert Hurt vs. Ken Boyd vs. Michael McPadden Despite challenges from several “tea party” candidates, Hurt remains the leading contender to face Democratic freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in November.
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1 GEORGIA DISTRICT 9 Special election runoff: Tom Graves vs. Lee Hawkins Two Republican state lawmakers are trying to out-conservative each other to take over the seat vacated by Nathan Deal.
1 CALIFORNIA DISTRICT 36 Democratic primary: Rep. Jane Harman vs. Marcy Winograd With help from former DNC chairman Howard Dean, Winograd is running to the left of Harman in a district that is solidly Democratic but dominated by the defense and aerospace industries.
1 VIRGINIA DISTRICT 2 Republican primary: Scott Rigell vs. Bert Mizusawa vs. Ben Loyola Rigell is the GOP establishment favorite, a distinction that could be a liability in the race to challenge Democratic freshman Rep. Glenn Nye.
1SOUTH CAROLINA DISTRICT 4 Republican primary: Rep. Bob Inglis vs. Trey Gowdy Inglis is trying to fend off primary challengers who have made the race a referendum on his 2008 vote to bailout the banking industry.
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Former U.S. attorneys argue the GOP’s case in House races
Three candidates hope prosecutorial records trump talk of Bush ties
by Paul Kane
NBC may have canceled “Law & Order,” but House Republicans are trying to create their own ver- sion of the drama this fall. From Little Rock to Scranton, Republicans are fielding congres- sional candidates — particularly a trio of former U.S. attorneys — whose most prominent creden- tial is prosecuting criminals. Running in districts held by Democrats, the GOP candidates are betting that their prosecu- tions in cases ranging from illegal immigration to local corruption will trump questions about their connections to the Bush White House. “You’re wearing the white hat,
protecting people and seeing jus- tice done,” Patrick Meehan, a for- mer U.S. attorney for southeast- ern Pennsylvania, said in explain- ing the appeal of ex-federal prosecutors.
On May 18, Meehan was one of three former U.S. attorneys to win the Republican nomination for a House seat; a fourth lost in her primary. That follows on the heels of former U.S. attorney Chris Christie’s November win in the New Jersey governor’s race. A year ago, as Republicans
charted a course back to political relevance, they shifted their can- didate recruitment efforts away from the usual prospects — state legislators and local city council members. Instead, aides said, Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.), chair- man of the National Republican Congressional Committee, tar- geted what he called “community leaders,” ranging from physicians to professional sports stars. For- mer U.S. attorneys were among that group.
So along came Meehan, as well
as Thomas Marino, a former U.S. attorney for northeastern Penn- sylvania, and Timothy Griffin, a former interim U.S. attorney in Little Rock. The potential vulnerability of the three Republican candidates is the connections required to land the U.S. attorney jobs in the first place. They are derisively
called “Bush retreads” by the Democratic Congressional Cam- paign Committee, because they all won their appointments after being nominated by then-Presi- dent George W. Bush. “Middle-class families will re-
ject these Washington-insider Republican candidates for repre- senting a return to the failed Bush agenda, and they won’t be able to hide from their dirty rec- ords,” said DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer. Griffin, a former staffer for a
House committee, the Republi- can National Committee and the Bush White House, was named interim U.S. attorney in 2006. The Justice Department had fired eight incumbent prosecutors in a push to replace them with newer, younger U.S. attorneys. Griffin, now 41, was a protege of Bush ad- viser Karl Rove. An e-mail from a top Justice official said Griffin was getting the post because it “was important to Harriet, Karl, etc.,” referring to then-White House counsel Harriet E. Miers and Rove. Griffin is touting his military
service, as well as his law career, in his campaign. With veteran
Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) retiring, a pair of Democrats are still locked in a fight for the Tuesday primary to determine who will take on Griffin in the fall. Marino is running against sec- ond-term Rep. Chris Carney (D- Pa.). Marino, who resigned as U.S. attorney in late 2007, has come under fire for accepting a job with a local businessman who was under federal investigation for political contributions con- nected to efforts to win a casino license. Meehan led the prosecution of one of the most powerful state senators in Harrisburg and over- saw a highly sensitive corruption probe of Philadelphia’s City Hall. “In a job like this, there’s the ca- pacity to be exposed to many sig- nificant issues,” he said. He is regarded as the most promising of the three candi- dates, having raised more than $1.2 million, but he is running in a tough district, where Barack Obama won 56 percent of the vote in 2008. Marino has had trouble galvanizing his campaign and has collected less than $150,000 in contributions.
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