http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com The dirt on San Diego politics. Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:10:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Francine Busby appears to have managed to save defeat from the jaws of victory.  Throughout the weekend the perfect summer weather was repeatedly interrupted by newscasts featuring Busby’s lethal "misspoken" comment.  Busby and Bilbray had up until this point been pretty close in the polls.  But this should tip the ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/no-papers-needed-to-read-this-blog/ Lake Research (a Democratic polling firm) has a new survey out that shows Democrat Francine Busby ahead of Republican Brian Bilbray in the 50th district.  The poll, which was conducted May 12-15, shows a ballot of 47%-40%. MyDD has the story here. http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/17/democrat-poll-claims-busby-beating-bilbray/ The 50th district never seems to have a reliable candidate field.  You just never know who is in and who is out.  Now we have another candidate in, Republican Bill Hauf. Does Hauf hurt Bilbray (help Busby) by undermining support for Bilbray, the Republican choice? Or does Hauf bring out more Republicans ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/15/hauf-joins-the-50th-cd-acmpaign/ If you aren’t happy with the Republican choices for the 77th (and it’s surely going to be a Republican who holds this seat) then you can read more about Democrat Chris Larkin at the 77th AD Blog. Take note that Chris makes me look good when it comes to keeping a ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/11/the-77-ad-blog/ The Swing State Project reports on a SurveyUSA/10News poll which shows Brian Bilbray and Francine Busby all tied with 45% of the vote each. Swing State notes that Busby does better among Democrats than Bilbray does with Republicans.  But most notably, Busby crushes Bilbray with Independent voters. Among Dems, Busby is doing ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/11/in-the-50th-its-all-tied-up/ So Eric Roach decided not to run in June despite putting out a lot of feelers that suggested he would run. There are a lot of interesting aspects to the Bilbray-Roach potential matchup that never played out.  Like, why was Bill Hauf paying for polls to encourage Roach to run? The producer ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/11/what-next-for-roach/ 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. http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/05/new-gop-survey-has-busby-beating-bilbray-43-37/ 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 ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/05/national-progressives-plan-to-fight-for-busby/ 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 ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/05/busby-goes-on-defensive-offensive/ 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 ... http://sdpolitics.blogsome.com/2006/05/05/cheney-to-help-bilbray-raise-dough/