Rubio Keynote Speaker at CPAC

The story, and my thoughts, are at bRight & Early.

My guess is that the crowd at CPAC is going to love this choice. He is extremely popular with party activist, going 12-0 in straw polls, winning most by huge margins.

Read the whole thing.

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SwINO

Maybe he has a case of porcine induced influenza, but let’s face it; Arlen Specter didn’t switch parties, he switched party labels. If there was ever a case of SwINO (Switch In Name Only) this is it.

Well, at least he did it for such principled reasons.

I am unwilling to have my 29-year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.

For me, this sums up his entire reasoning. He switched because he knew he was going to get beat like Desi Arnez’s conga in the primary.

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Cross posted from bRight & Early

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State by State – The A’s

One of the goals I had in starting this site was to focus on the state congressional races. The snapshots here will not be in depth. I’m going to leave that to all of you, especially those who live in each state. The Rothenberg Political Report has analyzed the 2008 Congressional races and the rating information on the House and Senate is presented here. Going alphabetically, lets start with

Alabama

  • Senate
  • House
    • District 2 – Terry Everett is not running due to health issues. The Montgomery Advertiser says that six Republicans and 3 Democrats are running for the open seat. Rothenberg considers the seat to be Republican favored.
    • District 5 – Democrat Bud Cramer is also retiring at the end of his current term. Cramer is a popular nine term representative, but his seat is rated a toss up by Rothenberg.

Alaska

  • Senate
    • Rothenberg ranks Republican Ted Stevens seat as narrow advantage to the incumbent. His 2007 ACU rating is 64 (64.45 lifetime).
  • House
    • Don Young (2007-65, lifetime-76.61) is also a Republican and his seat is listed as a toss up tilting Republican

Arizona

  • House
    • District 1 – The seat formerly held by Rick Renzi is being called a toss up.
    • District 5 – Harry Mitchel holds on to this seat with his ACU rating of 8. Given that, it’s not surprising that Rothenberg lists it as leans Democrat.
    • District 8 – Mitchel’s isn’t the lowest rating in the state. The ACU gives incumbent Gabrielle Giffords a 4.

Arkansas

  • Senate
    • Democrat Senator Mark Pryor’s seat is listed as safe. That’s probably an understatement.

So, what do you know about these states and races. Discuss it in the comments here, or in the forum.

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