If Caroline wants to be a Senator

[AllentownJake]

She can carpet bag it down I-95 or I-78 to PA anytime.

We'd gladly take her.

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. PA voters (at least the ones in your neck of the woods) aren't real keen of carpetbagging

Remember Joe Driscoll?

[AllentownJake]

11. Last time I checked

Driscoll does not = Kennedy.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. No, but he specificlly moved to the Lehigh Valley for the purpose of running for office

He had great resume and was a competent campaigner. But he never gained much traction in the Lehigh Valley due to the carpetbagger issue.

[AllentownJake]

13. He did better than Sam

and she's a local.

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. Driscoll only got 39%, Bennett got 41%

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/PA/

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapHPA/H/15

Bennett's problem was that she was kind of a flake and people were suspicious of the way she ran that charity.

[AllentownJake]

15. He did better than Sam

look at the party id numbers that year. We turned the county vastly blue in 2008 and Bennet essentially got the same numbers as Driscol. Sam also had twice the money Driscol did.

Trust me I'm very familiar with the inner workings of the Bennet campaign and how it has damned us to having Charlie for at least 2 more cycles.

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. They both got trounced for different reasons

Driscol would had at least made it a race if he hadn't moved to the LV after he announced that he was running. Mina Baker Knoll also had problems with carpetbagger issues when she moved back to PA to run for State Treasurer.

[AllentownJake]

21. Read my post on the trouble we have

Neither were the candidates to take on good ol' Charlie.

[AllentownJake]

16. BTW

Pat Toomey :-)

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. Toomey had lived in the LV for several years (and even owned serveral businesses there) before

he ran for office.

[AllentownJake]

19. yes but he wasn't a native

The problem in the Valley is Charlie Dent is extremely popular and percieved as a nice good guy. The people in the city vote straight democratic while the suburbanites split their vote between democratic state and national candidates and vote for Charlie. He runs some of the dirtiest congressional campaigns with attack ads of any congressional candidate in PA.

Until we have a candidate who has the money to call out Charlie for not being such a nice guy while looking like the nice guy/girl themselves he's almost impossible to beat because the people in the suburbs love him. No matter where the candidate is from.

The candidates who could do this want to stay in the the state house or want to be Govenor.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Morganelli would be a formidable candidate

But he was obsessed with becoming AG, and I have heard that he may be running for a judgeship.

[AllentownJake]

23. Mann or Cunningham

would also give Charlie a hard time. Mann because she's very dynamic and young and Cunningham because he has been involved in both Northampton and Lehigh County politics.

[Occam Bandage]

2. Yeah, but then she might have to actually run. You know, with a campaign and voters

and all that icky plebeian stuff.

[Egalitariat]

3. Or she could run a campaign and get more votes than her opponent***

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[oldtime dfl_er]

4. Why not give her an Ambassadorship?

Would be more her forte anyway. I just don't see her in the rough and tumble of politics.

[justiceischeap]

5. Or she can wait for MA seat to be open.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ted retired this year.

[SuperTrouper]

6. She part-owns a house in Massachussets...The Kennedy Compund in Hyannis

so theiretically she can get appointed by Deval Patrick...but I doubt that she really wants to be in a rough and tumble campaign...she will probably do well as Ambassador to Britain, France or Germany.

[justiceischeap]

7. Or Secretary of Education

Hasn't she been an activist for education her entire adult life (besides being an attorney).

[cali]

10. nope.. first of all though she does own a house in MA

it's not in Hyannis. She sold her house there. Secondly, owning a vacation house does not make one a resident of the state.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

9. I'd like for her to take his seat. She would win re-election there.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

8. No, thank you.

[sohndrsmith]

17. Or she can run for the seat in 2010... actually, I wouldn't mind seeing

her serve in the Senate, regardless of the state she would hold. I hope she comes back to wanting to serve in such an office at some point, and I'm sad she withdrew.