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Republicans think Rep. Betsy Markey’s vote Friday on the cap and trade bill will cost her votes next year. Politico, in a breathless and at times inaccurate piece Tuesday, even described it as a “career-ending vote.” The article included the National Republican Congressional Committee’s plans for attacking Markey and other potentially vulnerable Dems with TV and radio spots.
The NRCC’s offensive was unveiled today. They’re targeting Markey with robo-calls and a Web ad. As I discuss in my Coloradoan blog, that seems like a pretty light response, especially after the buildup. See my blog here: http://tr.im/quL5
In my blog, two Colorado State University political scientists discuss how important this vote might be next year. The obvious conclusion — it’s way too early to tell.
Bob Duffy, the CSU political science chair, is particularly dismissive of the NRCC: “”Who cares what the NRCC says-they have no credibility at this point.”
His colleague, John Straayer, said Markey’s votes could create vulnerability, but much of that will depend on how she responds.
“If Markey finds herself on the defensive, she’s in trouble,” Straayer said. “If she proudly owns her votes and casts them as pushing to solve serious problems for which the R’s have no solution, she may well be just fine. And she can’t let her opponent define Betsy Markey.”
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Even if they hadn’t completely destroyed their credibility in 2008, the NRCC would still be pretty weak right now just because it’s an off year.
Why are they wasting money on crap like this? People hate getting robocalled, and anyone who would watch an anti-Markey NRCC ad online would probably never vote for Markey anyway.
This is just another sign, IMO, that the establishment Republicans have no idea how to use technology.
has been splashed across Colorado Pols too.
As to career ending votes – EFCA sponsorship – didn’t Larimer or Weld vote down some rediculous Union Boss employment measure a cycle or two ago?
call it by its name without getting in some spin, would you now?
The average voter doesn’t understand cap and trade. Career-ending votes are those that deal with very clear, unambiguous issues that are easily explainable to voters. This is too complex of an issue to be anything close to career-ending for anyone.
Posted a resopnse to the NRCC robo-calls and ads: http://mediamattersaction.org/…
MM claims it would add jobs, but I don’t think that’s true. It might add “green” jobs, but would cost more standard jobs. [emphasis mine]
trying to sell something along these lines not too long ago?
If you are looking for some talking points to copy & paste that are, you know, applicable to this country, you should try and dig it up.
Spain has destroyed their own economy by doing many similar things to what Obama’s proposing.
that today’s economy is the same as tomorrow’s economy. That won’t be true on a number of accounts. One, oil prices will continue to rise and carbon intensive jobs will become more expensive regardless. Two, ACES will use a market based approach to include the price of environmental externalities (re: rising sea levels and changing precipitation patterns) which will cost more jobs if unaccounted for. Really, if you believe in the free-market, you support ACES or something like it (carbon tax anyone?), pure and simple. If you believe in effective public subsidies for corporations that hurt our competitiveness and put us behind in development of the new energy economy that the rest of the world is already adopting then fine. It’s crazy, but that’s fine.