Hotline Sort: Raising Arizona
By Sean Sullivan // September 30, 2011 | 8:30 a.m.
Updated: October 3, 2011 | 8:55 a.m.
Welcome back to Hotline Sort. Team Romney sets financial expectations as the third quarter comes to a close, Arizona gets its debate on Dec. 1, Obama's team is looking at a different path to reelection and Tuesday is a state holiday in West Virginia. Here's today's rundown:
10) CNN and the Arizona Republican Party will co-host a GOP presidential debate on Dec. 1, bringing the number of debates this year to 13 -- not including those scheduled for early 2012.
9) According to the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of New Jersey voters, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., beats state Sens. Joe Kyrillos and Michael Doherty -- two possible Republican challengers -- in head-to-head matchups. Menendez leads Kyrillos 49 percent to 28 percent and head leads Doherty 49 percent to 30 percent. A plurality of voters - 47 percent - don't know or have no opinion of Menendez while 30 percent have a favorable view of the senator and 23 percent have an unfavorable view.
8) The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is rolling out its latest list of House endorsements today: state House Speaker Chris Donovan (D), running in Connecticut's open 5th District; 2010 nominee Ann McLane Kuster (D), eyeing a rematch with Rep. Charlie Bass, R-N.H., in New Hampshire's 2nd District; and progressive activist Ilya Sheyman (D), running to challenge freshman Rep. Bob Dold, R-Ill., in Illinois's 10th District.
7) Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, isn't happy about a recent NRSC web ad that portrays him with five fingers on his right hand even though he lost three fingers in a childhood accident with a meat saw, the Great Falls Tribune reports. Republicans said Thursday that someone else's left hand was accidentally left in the photo when people in the background were cut out to show just Tester and President Obama.
6) Former Utah Gov.
Jon Huntsman is
moving his presidential campaign headquarters from Florida to New Hampshire.
5) Many Republicans have already written off
David Williams' chances in the Kentucky governor's race, but one GOP group -- Restoring America Inc. -- is spending big on his behalf. The group has
bought more than $668,000 in broadcast time, including heavy buys in Louisville and Lexington. The campaign involves at least four different TV ads and one radio spot, several of which aim to link Democratic Gov.
Steve Beshear to Obama.
4) According to a new
CNN/ORC International Poll, 90 percent of Americans say economic conditions remains poor -- a high during Obama's presidency and an increase from 81 percent in June.
3) Tuesday's special gubernatorial election in West Virginia has
been declared an official state holiday and state employees will be given the day off. Meanwhile, the push from Republicans to
nationalize the race continues. "This is becoming a huge national event," GOP nominee
Bill Maloney told the
Charleston Daily Mail. "It's the next transformational election in our country."
2) The
Boston Globe reports that former Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney is on pace to raise between $11 million and $13 million in the third quarter. That's less than the $18.2 million he pulled in during the second quarter, but would still represent a solid haul, especially within a growing field that has not been raising much. The most anticipated figure will be Texas Gov.
Rick Perry's, especially considering reports that he raised $20 million in just a three day period.
1) The
New York Times reports that Obama is charting an alternative path to reelection in the case that he is unable to win Ohio and other industrial midwestern states. Obama is fighting hard for Southern and Rocky Mountain states he won in 2008, and some he did not.
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