San Diego Politics Blog

Good news for Busby, bad news for Bilbray.

A Republican-sponsored poll finds that the Democrat candidate is pulling ahead in this "safe" GOP seat.

Read more at the Flash Report here.

I came across this testimonial of sorts on the website for Grassroots Campaigns which works to help promote progressive candidates and causes.

They talked about the coordination with Moveon.org to get Democrat voters to the polls on April 11th for Busby.  They pledge to do the same again "in the fall."

What’s most relevant is that the array of left-of-center groups that worked to boost Busby’s vote total on April 11th in the process identified her core base.  This is a luxury Brian Bilbray does not enjoy.

He had to fight for his 15% of the vote and now must unite the Republicans behind him and then figure out how to get indpendent and Democrat votes.

Jon Fleischman of the Flash Report doesn’t seem to be on board with this.  Fleischman today screams about the need for a conservative candidate to be on the ballot or else risk a win by Democrat Busby.

The Bilbray campaign looks to be in serious jeopardy.

Democrat congressional candidate Francine Busby has responded to the ads by Republicans suggesting that she was soft on a teacher implicated in a child porn case.

At the same time, Busby is also firing back with a commercial that attacks Bilbray’s record as a lobbyist.

Busby’s people have put the word out that she has pulled comfortably ahead of Bilbray in the polls.  If that’s true then the national GOP could be poised to face a massive national embarrassment by losing what was once thought to be an unshakably Republican seat.

See Busby’s ads here.

Vice President Dick Cheney, U.S. Senator John McCain, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert are teaming up to raise money for Republican congressional candidate, Brian Bilbray.

Bilbray has just sent out a mailer to voters indicating that he is the 1 Republican for 2 Elections.

Clearly, Bilbray is concerned about a potential challenge from Republican Eric Roach and he is going to box Roach out by making himself the only Republican candidate worth consideration.