Roll Call: Good Prospects in Illinois, Connecticut

Tuesday, 03 November 2009 01:05

In the News

A great snippet from Roll Call:

“We have an embarrassment of riches here in terms of good candidates stepping forward to run,” NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said last week. “It’s an indicator that people sense an opportunity and the public fears what they see coming out of Washington.”  Cornyn said he’s not necessarily worried about the prospect of waiting for a primary to determine the party’s nominee in a highly targeted race. “It would be presumptuous of me to somehow suggest that somehow I’ll have some disproportionate influence over who’s going to be the nominee,” he said. As for GOP incumbents who are up this cycle, Cornyn said his advice has been to not take anything for granted in such a volatile environment.   “I do believe there is a significant anti-Washington mood out there and significant anti-incumbent mood. But clearly the Democrats have the tougher time of it because they are clearly in charge and there seems to be considerable pushback to their policy proposals on health care and otherwise,” he said.