Not only did he continue to throw money into races that were LONG gone, but he put the Dems in a terrible cash / organizational position should
a special election come up (extremely likely).
Not exact matches
This
came up out of the blue — nobody thought Kathy Hochul would win her race — and there was a
special election for this position.
This week... a Pennsylvania
special election upset
came down to the wire, and a Mississippi candidate swapped Senate races, and Illinois candidates gear
up for a primary.
There also are two vacancies in seats previously held by Democrats that could
come up for
special elections.
The perception that the NY26th
special election is far more of the media's wishful thinking and some Democrats default position as depenedent on government than it is anything one would glean from a reading of the Siena poll, where this notion first
came up.
Unifying a fractured Democratic base and mobilizing them to the polls in an off - year is a tough challenge, especially considering that Democrats have
come up short in recent
special elections in Georgia and Kansas.
Moderate Republican Rep. Charlie Dent is set to leave Congress in the
coming weeks, setting
up a potential
special election for his seat.
The
Special Adviser on Political Matters to a leading National Chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, Uthman Shodipe - Dosunmu, has denied the rumour making the rounds that his principal has been removed as a member of Board of Trustees of PDP because of his bid to contest the party's national chairmanship
election at the convention,
coming up on December 9.
If he
comes up short — particularly if the race is very close — there is likely to be significant second - guessing of a majority party who let themselves be financially outgunned in the first
special election of the Obama presidency.
(Whoever
came up with that nickname for the Massachusetts Senate
special election is a genius.)
Dawn Euer
came up big in the
special election primary on Tuesday, July 18.