Goodbye Republican Party
I am an Independent today. I have no need for the fake two party system. I burned my GOP card in 2009 I am an Independent today. I have no need for the fake two party system. I burned my GOP...
By: Hardin Thatte
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Republican Senate candidates have been holding the firewall in the most high-profile races around the country: Joni Ernst in Iowa, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, Cory Gardner in Colorado. But one Republican Senate candidate in Michigan is doing exactly the opposite -- getting disowned by her own party.
If the Democrats hold the Senate, Republicans might be tempted to lay part of the blame at the feet of the floundering Terri Lynn Land for failing to win a vulnerable seat that could have secured a Senate majority.
The critics of Lands campaign have turned harsher recently, accusing Land of ignoring the normally requisite advance notice given before public appearances, and of ducking the press any time she feels threatened by its line of questioning, among other problems.
The Land campaign does not advertise her campaign events on its website ahead of time.
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Even more damning is that critics, including some Republicans, have declared her campaign dead.
After U.S. News called her campaign invisible last month, commentators have taken it one step further: just this past weekend, conservative radio host Frank Beckmann published an autopsy of Lands campaign in the Detroit Newsthree weeks before Election Day.
Earlier this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee pulled almost a million dollars from Lands campaign
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updated 5:06 PM EDT, Tue October 14, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee pushed its first TV spot in a $1 million ad campaign in South Dakota to attack the Republican nominee's top two opponents in what has become a competitive three-way race for the seat.
The 30-second spot, which hit South Dakota airwaves Tuesday, links Democratic opponent Rick Weiland and Republican-turned-Independent former Sen. Larry Pressler as holding the same positions on gun laws, energy and Obamacare and comes less than a week after Democrats announced their own $1 million campaign to attack Republican nominee former Gov. Mike Rounds.
Republicans also deployed two political operatives to South Dakota to boost Rounds' campaign operation.
The ad features two balloons with Rounds' opponents names, pointing out that "Rick Weiland and Larry Pressler have a lot in common." By the end of the ad, both balloons have deflated because "when it comes to looking out for South Dakota, they both fall flat."
"Weiland supports Obamacare, just like Pressler," the ad claims, adding that Rounds' Democratic and Independent opponents also favor "stricter gun laws" and "want you to pay more for your energy."
For now, Rounds still leads the four-man pack, which also includes Independent Gordon Howie, a social conservative running to Rounds' right who barely registers in the polls.
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A SurveyUSA poll released last week showed the race is a three-way split with Pressler trailing the Republican nominee by just three points, with Weiland another four points behind the independent.
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Charlie Crist reached across Gale Platts kitchen table, grasped her hand and explained whos at fault for the 56-year-old widows painful electricity bill: Floridas Republican governor.
Energy companies have given millions to Rick Scott, Crist, a 58-year-old Democrat, said during a stop at her Hollywood home, his voice just audible above clicking camera shutters. Theyre getting a pretty nice return.
Floridas gubernatorial race is the most expensive this year, and among the most malicious. With more than $70 million spent for Scott and Crist, television screens from Miami to Jacksonville have been saturated with commercials calling the candidates fraud, shady, lousy, and slick. The two, who are deadlocked, spent an hour digging at each other in a debate last night.
The unprecedented negativity reflects the status of the fourth-most-populous state as a presidential battleground that has sided with the winner in nine of the past 10 elections, said Susan MacManus, who teaches political science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Florida is the largest swing state, with 29 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
This race is not just about 2014, she said. The big-funding folks have their eyes on 2016. Each party and their supporters are trying to position themselves.
More than $90 million has been donated to campaigns by groups including the Republican Governors Association, the American Federation of Teachers and NextGen Climate Action Committee, the political-action committee started by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer. Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican governors Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana are among those who have visited.
The acrimony between Crist, who led the state from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican, and Scott was visible when they met for a debate at Broward College in Davie, Florida last night. The event started about five minutes late. Moderators said Scott initially refused to come out because Crist brought a fan on stage, in violation of the rules.
Over the next hour, the two called each other by their first names, while accusing each other of being the worse leader.
Charlie is the zero-wage governor, Scott said, referring to people who lost their jobs and pay during his term.
Rick, there you go again, trying to blame the global economic meltdown on me, Crist said. You just cant trust Rick.
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In Florida, $70 Million Buys TV Rancor as Crist Challenges Scott
DENVER Republican Rep. Cory Gardner argued he would be more bipartisan than his opponent, Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, in a pair of ads released Wednesday as ballots began to land in mailboxes across Colorado.
Udall, a Democrat, and Gardner have been locked in a months-long, neck-and-neck battle over a seat that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Gardner has tried to emphasize his youth and the need for a change in Washington, while Udall has gone after his challenger on women's issues and for his role in last year's government shutdown.
Colorado's Senate race is one of the most expensive and competitive contests in the country. Republicans need to net six Senate seats to win control of the chamber.
Gardner's new ads featured the congressman talking directly to the camera and amount to the campaign's closing argument. In one spot, amid a mountain backdrop, Gardner says Udall's "campaign has gotten too tired, and too mean" and contends he will call out his own Republican Party when it's wrong. In the second, Gardner says he works "across party lines" to help create energy jobs and that Udall "gives into partisanship and helps the president destroy energy jobs."
Also on Wednesday, the environmentalist group NextGen Climate announced it would run an unusual ad attacking Gardner. Running two minutes long and posing as an investigative news report, it slams Gardner for "posing" as a champion of renewable energy and actually being tied to oil and gas companies.
Both Gardner and Udall have largely sided with their respective parties in Congress, but each candidate is trying to convince Colorado voters he is independent and his foe a rank partisan. Gardner repeatedly cites a study saying Udall supported Obama's priorities 99 percent of the time in the Senate, while Udall cites another study saying Gardner to be the 10th most conservative Republican in the House of Representatives.
The two are scheduled to face off for their fifth and final debate Wednesday night. Ballots were mailed to voters on Tuesday.
Under Colorado's new election laws, which were approved by Democrats over Republican protests last year, citizens can register to vote and cast ballots up until Election Day. The system is believed to help the side with the best get-out-the-vote operation, an area where Democrats have excelled in Colorado.
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