50-State Strategy: Idaho is in Play

Idaho continues to make news as the National Republican Congressional Committee is planning to drop over $500,000 a Congressional race that NO ONE thought was going to be close.

The WaPost summarizes the race:

It is, perhaps, the political equivalent of hell freezing over in the interior West.

This red state where conservative Republicans routinely wipe the floor with hapless Democrats has a Republican running for Congress who just might lose.

The suddenly competitive race is a delicious development for Larry Grant, a Democratic candidate for the House who finds himself transformed from sacrificial lamb to reason for worry among national Republican strategists.

His Republican opponent is Bill Sali, an eight-term state representative with a corrosive reputation for irking his fellow Republicans. The Republican speaker of the Idaho House, Bruce Newcomb, said this spring of Sali: "That idiot is just an absolute idiot."

The Idaho Statesman, in its endorsement of Larry Grant, described Republican Sali like this:

Sali has spent 16 years in a GOP-dominated Legislature fixated on hot-button issues such as abortion, alienating fellow Republicans in the process. We doubt he will be effective in a sharply divided U.S. House, whether Republicans maintain a majority or not. We've seen nothing in this fall's campaign that demonstrates a commitment to advance anything but another divisive social agenda, including a constitutional amendment banning flag burning and a bill making English the nation's official language.

Check out Democrat Grant's new ad.

And: tonight is the final debate between Grant and Sali, more information at Grassroots for Grant.

Idaho residents can request absentee ballots until November 1.

Comments (4) «

Gov. Dean & Co. - keep up the good work. We need an active Democratic Party in all 50 states.

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JJNY4Dean on October 25, 2006 at 09:39 AM

Thank you.

If you truely believe in what your stand for, why do publish misleading and deceptive statements about cloning and abortion?

Why do you try to trick people into voting for your agenda?

Science proved to the world that a new life begins at conception because that is when the new DNA first shows up.

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piperpt on October 27, 2006 at 05:11 PM

piperpt,

all that proves is that the DNA is at work splitting cells. doesn't say, doesn't even slightly suggest that this means it is alive...not even close....

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andrew519 on October 27, 2006 at 10:09 PM

I have always wanted to make the comment regarding when life begins. IF life begins at the very instant of the DNA and if that life is aborted, then for the religious faction - wouldn't that guarantee an obviously sinless life going directly to eternal glory in heaven? Should you be suffering and bemoaning THAT tragedy. You can believe the mother has lost that chance - but... that is her choice.

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Nampa13 on October 31, 2006 at 03:07 PM

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