Hotline TV looks to the post-November 2nd future and does some GOP STARGAZING: Four Who Would Shine Under A Republican Majority

8/12/10 Hotline TV hosts Josh Kraushaar and Reid Wilson look to the post November 2nd future and do some GOP STARGAZING: Four Who Would Shine Under A Republican Majority.

The GOP needs 39 new seats to take over the U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGO1aAJnpM



Here again are the four stars they mention:

4.) Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Calif., 22nd District, elected 2006
http://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/

3.) Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, 6th District, elected 2003
http://hensarling.house.gov/
http://www.jebhensarling.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepJebHensarling#p/a

2.) Marco Rubio of Florida, former Speaker of the Florida House and 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarcoRubio

1.) Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, 1st District, elected 1998

http://paulryan.house.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepPaulRyan#p/a

A Roadmap for America's Future
http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

Rep. Paul Ryan at The Brookings Institution: Prosperity vs Austerity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYAEjVf2cM



See also: Republican Study Committee
http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/

The last time I posted a Hotline TV video was June 29, 2010
Hotline TV's Quinn McCord & Tim Sahd: Which U.S. House Dems are most at risk?
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/hotline-tvs-quinn-mccord-tim-sahd-which.html

Hotline TV's Quinn McCord & Tim Sahd: Which U.S. House Dems are most at risk?

Above, longtime South Beach Hoosier favorite Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, circa 2007, rated the 4th-most vulnerable House Democrat incumbent by Hotline TV.
http://www.youtube.com/user/HotlineTV

Not surprisingly, four of the five most vulnerable House Democrats identified by The Hotline are Blue Dog Democrats, and the other seat currently belongs to one:

#5 Michael A. Arcuri (NY-24)

#4 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD At-Large)

#3 Arkansas CD-1;
Rep. Marion Berry is not running for re-election.
Chad Causey, Berry's former Chief-of-Staff, is the Democratic nominee. http://www.chadcauseyforcongress.com/

This is the Northeast Arkansas district that's across the Mississippi River from Memphis, and an area I knew well as a kid, pre-Miami, when my family would drive across the bridge and go driving-around on weekend day-trips in our non-air conditioned Ford Falcon.
Not so bad when the weather was nice, but positively brutal in the summer!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd?state=AR&district=1

#2 Glenn Nye (VA-2)

#1 Travis Childers (MS-1)

To me, Stephanie is the anti-Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a real warm-hearted charmer with smarts, moxie and pluck AND a very sensible voting record.

http://hersethsandlin.house.gov/
http://stephanieforsouthdakota.org/

I previously wrote about Stephanie on November 25, 2007 here:
http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/2007/11/southbeachhoosier-jill-long-thompson.html and on June 9, 2007 here
http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/2007/11/southbeachhoosier-jill-long-thompson.html

The June 14th Rasmussen Reports was not exactly good news for her.
South Dakota House: Primary Victory Bounces Noem (R) Into Lead Over Herseth-Sandlin (D)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_house_of_representatives_election/south_dakota/election_2010_south_dakota_house_of_representatives

Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon's new campaign ad is also on this video.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/mcmahon-mentions-wrestling-in-new-ad/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EetmxyZSpRI



See also: http://www.electionprojection.com/2010elections/openseats10.php

For more information on the Blue Dog Democrats, go to:
http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/

Hotline TV: Blanche Lincoln's Senate campaign ad; "Never in the history of Arkansas politics has someone won by proclaiming that they're liberal"

Above. my license to practice politics in Arkansas. And to make it easier for me to flash my credentials, I had it made into a key chain! License is courtesy of my dear friend Shannon, a beautiful multi-talented dynamo from a town called Hope. Yes, THAT Hope.
(Her mother grew-up across the street from Bill Clinton.)

Hotline TV, May 4, 2010:
NAME DROPPING: Primary Endorsements, Bandwagon & AR SEN Ad



http://www.youtube.com/user/HotlineTV http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/

I've long felt that Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln was the perfect antidote to almost everything negative I ever saw on Capitol Hill in my many years in Washington: a bright and thoughtful person who got so fed-up with the status quo and the sinking feeling that her own viewpoint was getting short shrift, that she decided to do something both RISKY and POSITIVE about it.
She ran against her former boss -and beat- Beryl Anthony, a popular incumbent Democratic Arkansas congressman in the primary!

In 1998 she was elected to the U.S. Senate, re-elected in 2004, and now faces national liberal poster boy Bill Halter, the Arkansas Lieutenant Governor, for the Democratic nomination, with the primary scheduled for May 18. Halter is beloved in the liberal blogging community -by Ron Gunzburger, for instance- despite the large number of jobs he has sent overseas.



Of course, for all their talk about the common man, the vast majority of Halter's supporters don't actually know anyone in Arkansas whose job went overseas, so they play dumb and instead excoriate Lincoln for not being more liberal in a coal-dependent state that doesn't value either extremist politicians or outsiders telling them what's what and who to vote for.

It's a state that I first visited when I was a kid growing-up in Memphis, but even then, I couldn't help but notice the overwhelmingly friendliness and kindness of the people I met, who'd offer to help you before you ever thought to ask.
Every trip back there has been just like that.
And it's so beautiful, too, in a way that people who have always lived on the East Coast or South Florida can't imagine.

It's also a state where the friendly people who run the charities and civic groups, and who make sure that the ball fields are manicured on weekends for their sons and daughters to play baseball or softball on, are strongly against Obamacare and favors its repeal, and as Rasmussen Reports details below, "By a 61% to 31% margin, Arkansas voters say their views on today’s major issues are more in line with those of the average Tea Party member than with the views of President Obama."

Though I disagree with her position on Obamacare, in every other way, Blanche Lincoln has shown thru her words and actions that she's a true profile in courage, the likes of which does not currently exist in either Broward or Miami-Dade. As is patently obvious when we open the local newspaper or turn on the local news.
http://lincoln.senate.gov/

Which is to say that she's the polar opposite of an Ilene Lieberman, who seems incapable of not always thinking about how she, her husband and their pals can benefit from the existing political system that's riddled with loopholes which someone as smart as her has proven quite adept at manipulating, and not particularly interested in eliminating. Not that Mitch Caesar cares about that, either.
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Rasmussen Reports
Election 2010: Arkansas Senate

Arkansas Senate: Lincoln’s Support Continues to Slide

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arkansas/election_2010_arkansas_senate

U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2010/03/24/demint-lincoln-and-the-perils-of-progressive-purity-politics.html

DeMint, Lincoln, and the Perils of Progressive Purity Politics-
By Robert Schlesinger

Posted March 24, 2010