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NH02 Bass-O-Matic: MoveOn Moving In

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From MSNBC’s First Read, this information that MoveOn.org is going after Charlie Bass.

MoveOn.org Political Action is going up with two ads this week targeting GOP Reps. John Sweeney (NY-20), Randy Kuhl (NY-29), and Charles Bass (NH-2).  The roughly $600,000 ad buy is part of MoveOn.org’s “caught red-handed” campaign, which the group says is an effort to hold Republicans “accountable for failing to stand up to the Bush Administration” on Iraq.  One new ad which began airing yesterday, “Dumping Billions,” accuses the lawmakers of “pouring” money into Iraq while “needs at home” such as health care and education are “unmet.”  The second ad, “Red-Handed Defense,” which has already run in other districts, will begin airing today.  It alleges that the three have failed to prevent “war profiteering” in Iraq from companies like Halliburton.

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  1. Do we know any more than that poll that was being talked about last week?  I’ve heard from some folks in NH that they think it’s a lot tighter than what was being reported.

    • by 43-42.  Yeah, it’s an internal poll, but it’s not chopped liver, and it accentuates the arguments various people raised about the validity of the 53-25 poll.

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      Here’s a link to a Swing State project post that covers the poll and links to a PDF of the polling firm’s memo.

  2. See the ARG NH poll, e.g.

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    Bush’s approval ratings are abysmal (31%), whereas the Dem. Guv (Lynch) gets 59% approval (79% according to the Swing State analysis). I can remember canvassing in NH two years ago for Kerry, and being proud of helping make that state blue, including a very narrow victory by Lynch. This year, looks like he’ll be reelected in a landslide.

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    The astounding thing about the CD2 polling results, no matter which one you believe, is that they come with such low name recognition for Hodes.

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    Without leaners, it’s a pure tie, 40-40. The absolutely amazing thing is that Bass has full name recognition – 94%. Hodes, meanwhile, is at just 27%. The only thing which can explain this is extreme voter dissastisfaction [sic] with incumbents and Republicans. Charlie Bass, of course, is both.

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    Seems like the Move.On ads will help rectify that imbalance. I haven’t been paying close attention to this race. Is there a Dem Primary, or is Hodes the candidate?

    • There is a primary, but Hodes is unopposed in it.  The MoveOn ads are anti-Bass rather than pro-Hodes, and as such don’t directly address the name recognition problem.  But they leave more opportunity for Hodes to spend his own money on positive introductory ads.

      • Being out here in the lefternmost (Vermont) part of the Bay State, I don’t know Charlie all that well, but I have heard him interviewed on more than one occasion, and I’d have to say he comes across as a Grover Norquist acolyte, “government is bad!”

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        … when people say, ‘government is bad’ let’s say ‘wait a minute! government is us! it’s us!’ and so we ought to want that to be smart and effective and efficient and pragmatic and compassionate, because that is the best of who we are and what we have. And if this is the kind of government that you can get behind, that is the kind of government I am ready to lead, and I hope I can have your support.

        — Deval Patrick

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