Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Commentary Blogs -> Discourse.net

Legal Commentary

: Discourse.net

Local Congressional Race Update

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Lots going on on the local political scene.

FL-18

• Ileana Rushes Recycled Ad Into Rotation … which may be connected to …

• Miami Herald, Naked Politics, Ros-Lehtinen’s haircut makes the cut

• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen defended her support for privatizing Social Security at a recent candidate’s forum. (See Rivals spar at only meeting.) Imagine if your social security — or even only half of it as Ros-Lehtinen has proposed — were in today’s stock market.

• Annette Taddeo points out that Ros-Lehtinen Took $939,044 in campaign contributions from financial, real estate, and other special interests.

• Ros Lehtinen won’t debate Annette Taddeo — their only joint appearance was that candidates’ forum — where they told her all the questions in advance.

• Good Taddeo spot:

• The latest poll shows Taddeo improving, but with a long way to go. The Telemundo 51 poll shows Taddeo behind 48-35, 13 points down, with 17 percent of the voters undecided. In June, a Bendixen poll had Ros-Lehtinen leading by 27 points. Taddeo is leading among independent voters 39% to 36%, with 25% still undecided.

• Usually, I’d say a gap like that was too much, five weeks before the election. But given the state of the economy, the fact that IR-L remains under the 50%+ that spells safe incumbent, I think there’s still everything to play for. And that social security comment ought to bother people here. (Who in their right mind wants social security in this stock market?)

• And here’s an old video — from March. Even then, Taddeo was pretty good. And she’s better now.
  

FL - 25

• Joe Garcia creates a web site to celebrate GW Bush’s stealth visit to the area. The website is called Bush-Balart

• Polls are looking better and better for Joe Garcia.

FL - 21

• Dems attack Diaz-Balart, look to tie him to indicted PR pol (it’s Raul’s Diaz-Balart, not Joe’s). Cf. LINCON DIAZ BALART ACUSADO POR SENADOR EN PUERTO RICO DE RECIVIR MALETIN CON DINERO

• I hear Raul Martinez’s polls look even better than Joe Garcia’s…

Full post as published by Discourse.net on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).