DeLay seat now said to "lean Democratic"
CQPolitics:
The Texas Republican Party establishment has rallied around a single candidate, Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, in their unusual write-in campaign to salvage the 22nd Congressional District seat vacated in June by Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader.
But the extreme rarity of successful write-in campaigns for Congress and the presence of a solid Democratic nominee on the ballot in former Rep. Nick Lampson has prompted CQPolitics.com to change its rating on the 22nd District race to Leans Democratic from No Clear Favorite.
The GOP faces a world of trouble in this race because of a serious miscalculation on the part of DeLay and his party colleagues.
If you’re a Republican who happens to live in Texas 22, you do have an alternative to the doomed write-in campaign of Dr. Sekula-Gibbs and the election of Nick Lampson. You can vote for Bob Smither, whose name is on the ballot. Smither is the Libertarian Party’s nominee; but if elected, he’ll vote for a Republican speaker.
Learn more here.
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Have you seen the new poll putting Smither far ahead of the Republican in a very conservative Republican district (of course, NO Republican is on the ballot, and the idiots are trying to run a write-in campaign rather than support Smither):
Lampson, D @ 41% Smither, L @ 25% Undecided @ 23% Shelley, R @ 11%
“MR. SMITHER GOES TO WASHINGTON”
NO Libertarian has ever WON Congress. Ron Paul, the Republican turned Libertarian, also represented Dist 22—- so there are strong L roots there.
LLL laughlinou@yahoo.com