Poll: Walz challenger within striking distance in 1st District
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 1:43 pm
According to a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll, incumbent Rep. Tim Walz may be more vulnerable this election cycle than initially expected. Walz leads his Republican challenger Randy Demmer 47-42 percent in the poll, which had a +/- 4.1 percent margin of error.
Walz first entered office as part of the 2006 Democratic sweep of Congress. Republicans have focused on those seats, the seats they lost in 2006, as the political wind has shifted to their advantage this cycle. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has assisted Demmer by purchasing ad time in the 1st Congressional District, a move they touted as an indication that the playing field continues to widen, with Democrats becoming weaker as Election Day approaches.
Walz holds a significant monetary advantage headed into the last two weeks of the campaign. FEC reports released over the weekend showed Walz holding $814,000 left in campaign cash, compared to only $232,000 remaining for Demmer. But with the NRCC providing funding assistance to Demmer, that cash gap could be smaller than those numbers initially indicate.
Patrick Caldwell is the American Independent’s Minnesota correspondent.
8 Comments
Comment posted October 18, 2010 @ 1:59 pm
Never trust a liberal veteran. He was in the service for the wrong reasons.
Comment posted October 18, 2010 @ 2:53 pm
Dennis –
Tim Walz was in the service for 24 years and rose to the rank of command sergeant major – you were in the navy for 8 years and you think you know what his reasons for enlisting were?
Still waiting for answers to 2 questions asked earlier – you accused Al Franken of being a draft dodger – how is Franken any different than Cheney or Jeb Bush?
Where is your proof of southern churches endorsing candidates from their pulpits?
Comment posted October 18, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
I wrote Walz prior to the vote on Obamacare. I received a form letter-type response expounding on how much this healthcare fiasco was going to do for Minnesota and the nation. He never addressed my questions or concerns.
I also wrote to him with regards to all of the spending and bail-outs that he voted for. Same type of response. “Blah, blah, blah. I’m so great. Blah, blah, blah. I’m doing so much to undo what Bush has done. Blah, blah, blah. Spend, spend, spend.”
It is apparent to me, that Tim Walz is democrat, party-line, follower. He is disconnected from the constituents (as is apparent from his robo-responses to my correspondence), and needs to be defeated on Nov. 2nd. My dog would be a better representative, but I believe that I am too late to enter him in the race. I’ll be voting for Randy Demmer.
Comment posted October 19, 2010 @ 7:27 am
Catherine.. We recieved the same letter from McCullom on St. Paul’s side.. Everytime we wrote to her we got the the same form you had just with our congresswoman name on it..
Vote Democrat party liners out!
Vote Teresa Collett!! Vote Demmer!!! Vote Emmer…
Comment posted October 19, 2010 @ 10:29 am
I have also received the exact same letter from Betty regarding several different letters on different subjects. She isout of touch with all but Pelosi,Reid and Obama and the rest of the far left.
Comment posted October 19, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
Yeah I’ve had enough intelligent thoughtful Congress people from Minnesota. We don’t want smart representation.
Let’s elect ignorant fools like Michelle Bachmann, Randy Demmer, and Teresa Collett. The dumber the better, so they can get rid of the Constitution and do what their masters tell them when they sell their votes for political donation checks.
(Wow its easy to think like a Republican Tea Partier… just don’t think about the complex solutions needed for complex problems.)
Comment posted October 19, 2010 @ 8:37 pm
Catherine,
You’re the one who is out of touch with reality. Do you know how many of letters and emails a typical Congressional office receives? On average, it tends to be in the thousands in a single week. Unless you want your tax dollars being spent on employing teams of people to respond to your request individually, a form letter is the best you’re going to get. Think before you speak/write next time.
Comment posted October 20, 2010 @ 1:46 am
Thank you, Joe. I have gotten the form letters too, which are little more than acknowledgments that the letter has been received. It took quite a while, but I eventually got personalized responses too.
If you tell them something useful and not just boilerplate talking points, you are more likely to be taken seriously.
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