Reply #4: Doolittle's House Seat in Trouble!

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Touting new poll numbers, Rep. Doolittle challenger seeks DCCC assistance

By Roxana Tiron

In the past 10 years, Democrats have just been names on the ballot in California’s 4th District. 

Incumbent Rep. John Doolittle has always won reelection with more that 60 percent of the vote.

This year Charlie Brown, a retired Air Force colonel, is trying to change that. He has raised about $450,000, more than any other Democratic Doolittle challenger has raised and has been trying to impress upon voters that their incumbent is unethical and rarely in the district.  

But so far, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has not helped finance Brown’s campaign, although it has directed Democratic-leaning PACs, such as those of several labor unions, his way. The party committee, however, is monitoring the race closely; it talks to the campaign at least once a week and offers encouragement and direction.

Armed with an internal poll showing him in a statistical dead heat with Doolittle, Brown was in town this week in part to try to persuade the DCCC to invest in his race.

Benenson Strategy Group, a firm that also works with the DCCC, conducted the poll at the end of August. It shows Doolittle leading Brown by just 41 percent to 39 percent with 17 percent saying they didn’t know who they would vote for “if the election were held today.” The poll had a 4.9 percent margin of error.

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http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/091306_doolittle.html

Even down the home stretch, Charlie Brown could still use any jingle people can spare. The spare change in your couch could help flip the fourth district seat and make this American a happy person!!!

http://www.charliebrownforcongress.org/index.php