The big political news is still the victory by Democrat Travis Childers in MS-01
Tuesday 54% to 46%, winning 20 of the 24 counties.
If Republicans are having trouble winning in R+10 districts even
when they throw in everything they have, a lot of them fear disaster in November.
Politico, a Republican-friendly
Website, had the following stories on the front page yesterday:
Not exactly upbeat. The House GOP caucus has been
meeting in what can best be described as crisis mode since Tuesday. The GOP brand is
in trouble and nobody knows how to fix it fast. Minority leader John Boehner (R-OH)
is known to be very unhappy with NRCC chairman, Tom Cole (R-OK), but firing him would look
very bad and besides, who would want to chair the NRCC when it is down by a factor of about
5 or 6 in money and is likely to lose 20 seats? Doesn't look good on your resume.
One
rumor
is that the GOP leadership will try to pressure Cole into resigning and then ask Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA)
to take the job. Davis is not running for reelection so a big loss won't hurt his further
congressional career.
No new primary polls today but we have two general election polls.
State
Clinton
McCain
Start
End
Pollster
Iowa
42%
45%
May 13
May 13
Rasmussen
Washington
49%
45%
May 12
May 12
SurveyUSA
State
Obama
McCain
Start
End
Pollster
Iowa
44%
42%
May 13
May 13
Rasmussen
Washington
54%
42%
May 12
May 12
SurveyUSA
The polling results for all primaries and caucuses are available as a
Web page
and in
.csv format.
Obama picked up a few more supers yesterday. His lead over Clinton
is now about 175 delegates.
A week ago, before the West Virginia primary, it was about 158.
So despite Clinton's landslide victory in West Virginia, she is about
18 delegates further behind than she was before her big win.
Next week we get Kentucky and Oregon, which are expected to be a wash.
Yesterday's posting was about Kentucky. Monday will be on Oregon.
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