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Dems Expand Playing Field For The House With Nevada Candidate
National Dems have just increased their chances at a major House pick-up this Fall, recruiting former Nevada state Senate minority leader and 2006 gubernatorial nominee Dina Titus to run against incumbent Republican Jon Porter in a key swing district.
It's yet another sign that national Dems are successfully using their advantages in fundraising to find more candidates and expand the playing field for the 2008 elections. Titus only narrowly lost her campaign for governor after starting out way behind, and the ethics scandals that have faced the new Governor Jim Gibbons could inspire some buyer's remorse in her favor.
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I think we have Hillary to thank for this, Eric. All of her hard work trying to disenfranchise caucus-goers in Nevada really paid off!
Old news, but always fun to go back over the old campaign '08 scrapbook
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/a-feisty-bill-clinton-defends-nevada-lawsuit/
May 1, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Which is why Super Delegates are switching to Obama.
He can help them with fund raising, and Hillary would give them "Broke" Cooties.
May 1, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good for the Democrats. They're expanding the playing field in spite of the collossal lack of leadership being demonstrated by the superdelegats refusal to lead.
If the Wright flap derails the Obama nomination, and Clinton is the nominee, I'll vote Democratic for every downticket candidate, but I'm leaving the President blank.
May 1, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
While I agree that Titus is a very strong candidate (in addition to being State Senate Minority Leader, she's a PoliSci professor at UNLV and is one of the contributor's to PBS' American Experience documentary on Las Vegas), I thought she was anteing up for a rematch against Gibbons in 2010.
I wonder if these means that Gibbons isn't seen as likely to make it to re-election (or won't even run), setting the stage for perhaps a much more viable GOPer like Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki.
May 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kudos to Dean, progressives and their fifty-state strategy. It's unfortunate that the DLCers would throw them under the bus.
May 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another superdelegate for Obama:
http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/01/thursdays-super-battle/
May 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Honky, the NV Governor's race in 2010 is way up in the air on both sides of the aisle, but I don't think we can read much into it from Titus' announcement.
Her decision to get in this race is driven largely by the evident need to send the 3-term incumbent Tom Delay-clone packing and the high likelihood of a Democratic win. When Daskas dropped out, she recognized that she was the only Democratic candidate with the established name recognition, knowledge and organizing and fund-raising contacts to get up to speed right away and could unite the state and county party behind her candidacy.
She had passed on running for this seat last year because she didn't want to be away from her family so much, but her ailing father for whom she had been caring passed away last winter.
May 1, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink