Will Hillary Be a Drag on the Ticket?
EmailYesterday Democrats lost two special elections to fill US House seats.
One of them may have relevance to the presidential election — the loss of Democrat Robin Weirauch to Republican Bob Latta in an Ohio district. And that’s because Republicans did quite a bit to link Weirauch to Hillary Clinton.
In direct mail the Latta for Congress Campaign Committee tried to link them (SEE HERE) as well as linking Weirauch with Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi.
And the National Republican Congressional Committee ran this web ad against her (watch HERE) that featured two photographs of Clinton and a near-morph of Clinton into Weirauch.
Latta won 57% to 43%.
It’s a Republican seat, but the use of Clinton in swing state Ohio does raise questions about how helpful Clinton will be to down-ticket Democrats — an argument both Barack Obama and John Edwards have been trying to make.
– jpt
UPDATE: I missed this, but before Weirauch lost, the Politico’s Mike Allen noted when these anti-Hillary/Weirauch attacks began. And i had mis-stated that the web ad was a TV ad, which I corrected. It was a web ad.
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The RNC are running ads against Mary Landreau by connecting her with Hillary. Hillary will also bring more people to the polls. There are many people who despise Hillary. The people that despise Hillary are just as filled with hate towards her as Bush haters are towards him.
Posted by: tanmany2k | December 12, 2007, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
Hillary IS a drag on the ticket: a HUGE and perhaps FATAL one.
There was a CNN poll yesterday where Edwards was the strongest general election candidate, creaming Romney, and beating Huckabee by 25 points!
People need to wake up to the fact that Hillary has created the false PERCEPTION that she is the most electable, when in fact she is the LEAST electable.
I just hope there is time for people to get the message.
Posted by: Oscar | December 12, 2007, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Obama will get ambushed by Clinton, and Edwards will run up the middle into the lead. Poor Obama, he will be devastated by the Clinton Machine.
Posted by: Oscar | December 12, 2007, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
I’ve seen it happen oh-so-often with D. presidential candidates, going for the “best” candidate, rather than the one with the best chance to capture the White House. Clearly this time the least likeable candidate is Bill Clinton’s wife (who would not even be in the Senate if she were Hilary Rodham, let alone posing as a candidate for President). All-too-many of her backers would rather lose with Hilary than win with either Obama or Edwards or the x candidate. Sad, for all of us, really.
Posted by: sophillyfatz | December 12, 2007, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
I live in OH-5 and I saw the ads every day. NRCC ran ad’s painting her as a liberal for raising taxes, giving illegals amnesty and nationwide healthcare. I just hate how people who don’t even live here dump money into a smear campaign that solves nothing but deepens the political divisions among us. It would be nice if the $600,000.00 that was spent on ads could go to all the high school seniors who can’t afford to go to college or to the factory that closes because it’s not competitive with cheap foreign labor.
Even before this crap-slinging began, Robin Weirauch had no chance. Bob Latta is a moderate republican in a district gerrymandered to the point where it physically looks like a zig-zag.
She didn’t lose because of Hillary. Just like Latta didn’t lose because of Bush.
Posted by: ohiogal | December 12, 2007, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
ohiogal – hate to tell you but the ads are true! they were not lies I love it when the dems are called out on the carpet it is hate speech for calling them out.
Though hopefully Clinton wins the Dem primary!
Posted by: spock | December 12, 2007, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
I have said from the beginning that when the American people realize that the United States is gradually becoming a monarchy, Hillary will not even win her party nomination. For the last 28 years, Bush/Clinton has either been a vice president or the president of the United States. And if Hillary becomes the president of the United States, Bush/Clinton would have dominated the political life Americans for straight 24 years. If this is not a monarchy, whose ascendancy to the throne is by inheritance, some one should tell me if it is. After four or five years of “president” Hillary, then Laura Bush will run for the presidency and then, Jeb Bush will run after Laura. It is time for these corrupt families be retired from the political life of the Americans.
Posted by: Sam Lobey | December 12, 2007, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
President Bush has pleasure in inviting muslim leaders to his Texas Ranch. Citigroup just borrowed $1.7 billion from a muslim country. Without the Muslim countries supplying oil to the United States, the U.S. economy will collapse. To continue to portray Obama as a muslim which he is not, shows how naughty you are. Obama was raised by a single mother and what he has achieved on his own at 45 years, you will not achieve it in your life time. Obama was the editor Havard Law Review which you will not even dream of being in your life. Besides, if Obama was overwhelmingly elected to the Illinois Legislatute and then the U.S. Senate by White majority, then Obama must have something
Posted by: Sam Lobey | December 12, 2007, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
My point was that the both sides went negative. Both sides have to start behaving like adults and get along to get to business.
All the comments I see posted from who I assume are republicans you quickly forget that it was your president who started the war in Iraq, who pushed to add RX coverage to Medicare and gave tax cuts sending us back to deficits. Someone has to pay for his “Paris Hilton”like spending spree.
Posted by: ohiogal | December 12, 2007, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
ohiogal – A little bit of facts for you.
The tax cuts first – they have help our economy hit record levels ok, it was the out of control spending that continued and caused the Republicans to lose the Conservative vote (they are different) because why have republicans if they spend like the libs. The republicans have learned and now are doing better.
The War in Iraq – Well first the war started in 91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, there was ease fire pending Hussein follow 17 resolutions, he followed none, then with his wanting to build again WMDS we could not take any chances, since during the Clinton years the terrorists were at war with us and we appeased them. The Clintons actually got pass resolution to depose Hussien in 98. Also keep in mind if it was not for the oil for food scandal Hussein would of fallen in 95, but allies to the Dems like Soros who is the puppet master of Obama and Edwards helped in the oil for food scandal.
Now unlike libs I do not blindly follow a republican, he made mistakes with the RX program but it is better then what the libs want.
Also it is the Dems/libs/moveoners that are the ones spewing the hate
Sam Lobey – no one ran against him of any caliber, he is a made up puppet from the press.
Also you missed Chelsea
What are you talking about with the muslims? Clintons library is pretty much being paid for by Saudia Arabia
Also as far oil why dont the libs allow us to drill here then, and use nuclear power?
sophillyfatz – is the idea to get the best candidate but then again the libs have none.
Posted by: spock | December 13, 2007, 12:13 am 12:13 am
Obama would be a drag on the elections. Americans want nothing to do with an inexperienced black with Muslim connections who belongs to a radical black church.
Posted by: Reba Shimansky | December 13, 2007, 3:22 am 3:22 am
Hilary is an absolute sizzle who will dash Dems hope for presidency. She is a con. All her life she deceived her opponents by spreading rumours. Still today, same dirty tectic against other candidates. Slaming John Edwareds for mud-slinging, she throws the same mud to Obama when her poll is sliding.
Shame on Hilary!
Posted by: Cohen | December 13, 2007, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
of course Hillary is taking alot of flak right now and she will continue to do so until the election~~~she’s a woman, what do you expect? But make no mistake, women collectively, regardless of race or party affiliation believe the time has come for a female President and We are GOING TO ELECT HILLARY.
Posted by: Ashleigh | December 14, 2007, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm