2010: Mass. primary preview

COLORADO: Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff has pledged not to accept funds from corporate-backed political play committees, releasing a list of corporate contributors to his primary opponent Michael Bennet. The Denver Post notes, “A handful of the corporations on Bennet’session list also wrote checks to Romanoff when he served in the state House.”

CONNECTICUT: PoliticsDaily calls Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s (R) involvement in the race the “best object of trust” for Sen. Chris Dodd (D) to retain his set firm. “Should McMahon win the nomination, Dodd and the Democrats would try to use her involvement in the seedy avocation of pro-wrestling against her (currently, her TV ads mentions she operated a highly successful business with her spouse, none more than do not cursory reference the faux wrestling). In addition, it is likely that some social conservatives who would be turned off by McMahon — and determine stay abode in a universal election.”

KENTUCKY: Attorney General and Senate hopeful Jack Conway has hired the deputy campaign manager to New York Comptroller Bill Thompson, who came close to besting Mayor Michael Bloomberg last month, to manage his campaign. 
 
LOUISIANA: Not surprisingly, Democrats’ goal against David Vitter in 2010 is to highlight women’s issues. 

MASSACHUSETTS: “For three months, the candidates for the sake of US Senate have tried to generate voter excitement for a special preparatory election that has repeatedly seemed to be off the public’s radar,” the Boston Globe writes. “Today, with low turnout expected across the state, their campaign organizations will pull out all the stops to get those voters who were paying mindfulness into the polling booths.” Turnout is expected to be fewer than 500,000.
 
“The winner of the Democratic flavor will face not on in the Jan. 19 special election to counter-poise the winner of today’s Republican primary, state Senator Scott Brown or Duxbury businessman Jack E. Robinson, who appeared in their without more televised debate last night on WGBH-TV.” 

“The race is notable by reason of other reasons, moreover. Voters are doing something they have not done in Massachusetts considering 1984: vote in a U.S. Senate chase with no incumbent,” AP notes. “Not since Paul Tsongas decided to step down after a cancer diagnosis have they had an free chance to fill a Senate seat. John Kerry, who went on to exist the Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, won that taste.”

NEVADA: Sue Lowden = John Thune? Republican strategist and Colorado GOP chair Dick Wadhams wrote a letter in support of Republican Senate solicitant Sue Lowden which “boiled down [Republicans’] sentiments into a single, potent message: We can get one more scalp here,” CQ Politics reports. He compared Lowden to Sen. John Thune, whose campaign Wadhams ran in which Thune defeated then-Democratic leader Tom Daschle through two points. Wrote Wadhams, “Tom Daschle was a mere obstructionist of the Republican agenda,” Wadhams wrote. “Harry Reid is the chief author of the worst parts of the Obama-Democratic agenda. … Tom Daschle was a disgusting amateur compared to Harry Reid.” 

NEW YORK: “Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno yesterday was plant culpable on corruption charges for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in private consulting fees from a businessman through interests before the state Senate,” the New York Post writes, adding, “Bruno direct face up to 20 years in founded on prison per count when he’session sentenced on March 31.”  

NORTH CAROLINA: “Former North Carolina situation Sen. Cal Cunningham (D) upon the body Monday announced that he will exception Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) next year,” The Hill writes. “Cunningham, who previously declined to enter the children but changed his memory, will face a tough Democratic primary with North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. But the Democratic establishment has rallied around Cunningham, an Iraq veteran, and he should be in possession of its help in his primary.”