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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
47% of Washington voters approve of the job Cantwell’s doing to 38% who disapprove. To put those numbers into some context, our first Washington Senate poll of 2010 found Patty Murray with a 46/45 approval spread. So Cantwell’s net approval is 8 points better and Murray of course went on to be reelected by 5 points in what was an otherwise dreadful election year for Democrats. [...]
Cantwell leads Michael Baumgartner 51-36 and Bill Bryant 50-36 in hypothetical head to heads. She wins over 90% of the Democratic vote against both of them and takes independents by 9-11 points. She also gets double digit support from Republicans- 10-11%.
Given that Washington is one of the most liberal states in the country, it isn’t too surprising that an incumbent Democrat is doing well. Still, given the sheer number of seats the Democrats need to defend this is good news for the party. The more the Democrats’ field of potential competitive seats shrinks early in the cycle, the easier it becomes for Democrats to focus their resources where needed to retain their majority.
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You mean there’s a member of congress with 47% faves? Color me surprised.
Taking the House, is, or course, out of the question.
And, given those 23 seats, and how many of them are in “swing” states, I’ll be surprised if we hang on to the Senate.
Using Cantwell as a yardstick is nonsensical. Washington may be the first state to legalize “personal use” marijuana.
Also, even considering the GOP’s pathetic state, Obama’s coattails will surely be about as attractive as a pile of fresh dog poop.
Cantwell voted for NDAA. I’m voting for someone new. Some things are totally unacceptable and destroying our rights that protect people from being black bagged is a deal breaker. You sheeple go along and vote for a pretty face, all she does is vote lockstep with the dem party who work for the elite banking cartell destroying this country and playing Americans for halfwits.
Sen. Cantwell will vie for the 2016 Democratic nomination for President,if she’s re-elected, I’m thinking. She’s got the experience and resolve of Hilary without the baggage. She’s pro-business and pro-environment and is a very good fundraiser. She’d beat Biden just on his vote of rejiggering of the bancruptcy laws in 2005-06; where he’ll be the most vulnerable after this current economic disaster. Joe’s corporate to the bone. Unless I’m way off it will be a Rubio/Cantwell or Jeb Bush/Cantwell general election and that would be an interesting political battle. Unfortunately, for the American people, it probably won’t solve the many disasters waiting behind the trees as we stumble thru the forest, blindly. A lost decade for sure.
you’re dreaming. Cantwell votes lockstep Dem. Does she even need to get out of bed in the morning to do that. NO.
How can you vote against such a pretty picture? Just kidding. I think that the “Democrats” are going to be surprised at how poorly they do in 2012. They have alienated their base so much they may well get smoked. There impulse, of course, will be to move further to the right once again proving they don’t have a clue.
I agree wholeheartedly with you on the NDAA vote but I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet in terms of gov’t interference in our privacy and legal rights. In January they started up the linkage of license plates, street cameras, data base after data base of instant info. Look out pilgrims!
She’s going to go for it and lock step Dem. in the Democratic Party can’t be your best argument, can it? She’s got Microsoft money!
Hey our Senator Amy Klobuchar has a couple up on Maria. High approval ratings, voted for the NDAA and authored SOPA and the so-called Safety bill that put the radiation machines in our airports. At this point anyone that remains in the Democratic party obviously have no principles and are not worth my time of day. The fact that we did not leave this party after NAFTA not to mention everything since is beyond comprehension.
If we get ‘smoked’ in November, it’ll be because of attitudes like this. Geez, give me a towel. I have a lot of grief with Obama and both Sens. Murray and Cantwell but I’ll be damned if I’ll sit at home peeing in my Cheerios on Election Day.
I intend on voting for Obama and Cantwell. Vote for a third party? Hell, might as well just tear up my voter card. And spare me the lecture about how no third party can become viable if people act as I do.
VOTE FOR EVERY SWINGING DEM ON THE TICKET!
The batsh!t crazies aren’t going to go away any time soon. The more power we give them in local races, the more viral this ‘social disease’ will become.
So your favorite issue got waxed because Cantwell didn’t vote your way. This happens, get used to it. That’s why we never give up trying. If you really support progressive causes, then there’s no alternative but to vote Democratic. The Repugs sure as hell won’t support any and voting for a 3rd party is just peeing down the well.
We’ve seen what can happen when we come together (Occupy, Komen debacle, contraception debate) there’s no reason we can’t do this again. But, in order to be the most effective, we need as many Democrats in Congress as we can get.
Car Thief Darrell Issa is in charge of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee because we fell asleep back in 2010 and let the Repugs take the helm in the House.
Live and learn.
(Incidentally, Cantwell’s money isn’t Microsoft. It’s Real Networks.)
yeah it is my best argument because that is all Cantwell does. This kind of complacent voting with the paid off pack is screwing Americans three shades of chartreuse. We are expecting a democracy, not a go along with packcracy destroying jobs and not holding incompetent fraudulent bankers accountable to the most basic of laws and social contracts.
Microsoft pushing GMOs that enslave people worldwide to corporate control over food like they corporations have done to Americans for health care. That Microsoft money is going to bite her in the butt along with the rest of the Gates groupies. The studies prove that these GMOs don’t even have better yields and play havoc on our health.
“Sen: Maria Cantwell Looks Safe”
and HOT
I had to laugh recently. Having given money to both Maria and Elizabeth Warren, I was invited to a special luncheon ($1250/plate). It was the location that stunned me. The top floor club at a building they had to rebrand “Columbia Center” because “Bank of America Tower” tested so poorly. Like having it in Goldman Sachs’ boardroom. Sigh.
That speech about sticking with the Dems or the big bad repubs are gonna get us is exactly what got us here in the first place. The Dems are only slightly to the left of the Repubs and paid off by the same OnePercent. The Repubs’ **JOB** is to slather this right wing, sociopathic, worker hating, garbage high and low so that the Dems have to hike 100 miles to the right to meet them half way. Which they do like rats for the Pied Piper. Then Dems make none of the obvious arguments, point out any of the lies, and sit on their hands while the same 400 families take control of the globe on the backs of American workers (Endless bailouts) and the blood of our kids (Endless for profit Wars)…Endless socialized losses and always always always PRIVATIZED profits.
Meanwhile, we are losing our rights, being tracked like livestock, going to war and killing people like termites, handing all our country’s resources over to a few people dictating everything from wages to health care costs that most people can’t even pay while sending our jobs over seas and having nothing to say about employers that don’t provide benefits or pay living wages while telling voters that’s where to get Health Care. Cantwell’s got hers. What does she care. And I think her personal wealth is tied up in the for profit medical industry, enough reason right there. And since she’s not as bad as the razor teethed Repubs, it’s all good? …NO!!, we’ve played this game far far too long. Time for change, time for risk, time for democracy.
Cantwell is on the Microsoft payroll and The League of CONSERVATIVE voters. Ain’t that special.
Obviously you are of the majority of Democrats that have no principles or morals or ethics and don’t have a problem with torture or murder. I won’t be voting for murderers, no more than I would vote for Republican murderers. As you can see I am a belligerent and according to the support of this president and votes of most dem/pubs I can now be targeted for assassination/murder and I would be an idiot to support those people.
And voting for cantwell is supporting progressive causes how? I don’t live in WA so you can’t bully me into voting for her, but you don’t even try to tell us that she is the lesser of two evils, which I’m not sure that she is. I’m not voting for any dim at the Fed level this year because they are not worth it. You can go ahead not and try to insult me because I have no intention of voting for obama.
and as a fact, 70% of Americans say they would be willing to vote for 3rd party so you may want to take a look at the propaganda you are listening to that says it can’t be done.
I get fund raising e-mails crom Cantwell. The best one said I should send money because she would have to give in to Republican ‘demands’ to cut Medicare and Social Security but she would support raising taxes on rich people.
Sorry, Maria. Your party controls two thirds of the government. No bananas for you.
“…because we fell asleep back in 2010.”
Utter, complete, bullshit.
We lost the House because Barack Obama had that huge margin and did jackshit with it.
The same thing could happen this year, and if it does, it makes no sense to blame the voters; what they’ll be saying to Obama and the democrats will be this:
“We hired you, in no uncertain terms, to mount a salvage operation after the 8 years of Bush’s bloody idiocy. Not only did you funk the job, but in many ways you’ve sustained the worst aspects of that misery. If you think we’re going to reward you for that, just because the republicans are marginally worse, then you are as full of shit as a Thanksgiving turkey, and we wish you bad luck in the private sector which you have defended and enhanced at the expense of the people who put you in the White House. NEXT!”
Cantwell is my senator. I’m voting for her. Cantwell at least tried to do something about derivatives. I live in wingnuttia land, also known as Northeast Washington State, and already have a good clue what kind of yahoos we can get if I vote third party. Just look up some of the comments from my state house reps Joel Kretz and Shelley Short. Talk about being out there.
I will not vote and allow someone like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker to get power. I’m not happy with Obama, or Murray, or Cantwell, but I’m not voting third party that will allow someone to trash woman’s rights, unions, schools, and a ton of other things Republicans stand for.
But you WILL vote for a president and party that is protective of the corporatist status quo, and which killed the Dorgan amendment to re-import inexpensive generic drugs, and which has killed hundreds of innocent people with their drone strikes, with absolutely no end in sight?
And which recently threw young teen-age girls right under the knuckle-dragger bus?
I’m afraid your “piety” is going to be lost on the voters who helped Barack Obama double John McCain’s electoral vote in 2008, and then had to watch him sell us out, time after time.
Cantwell was the FIRST time I wrote in my own name for a BIG office in 2006. gawd … I can’t even remember all the bullshit I was fed up with then.
I still voted for the rest of the $ell-0ut-0-$hit$, only to have Jim McDermott show up in … Nov? 2006 to tell us “impeachment was off the table” according to Nancy cuz … the DFHs would scare the middle and then we’d all lose …
I voted all Dems in 2008, HOPE-ing 0bummer wouldn’t be a sell out sack of shit.
I wrote in “Medicare ForALL” for everything but dogcatcher in 2010.
EVERY goddam sell out – like the sell out a few weeks after the 2010 election! – I remember those “Medicare ForALL” votes and I think, warmly, “I did NOT vote for those lying chickenshit sell out motherf’kers!”
To hell with Cant-Do-Shit. There is ALWAYS an excuse for the Liebermans to get what they want, and, oh, by the way, fuck over the bottom 295,000,000 of us — and there is ALWAYS an excuse for losing …
I developed this NEW Mathematical Model of Politics: Vote Sell Out = Get Sold Out!
While there is a substantial blue base in WA voting out of fear of the whack-a-doodles on the right, how motivated will they be? I won’t know … I’ll be … helping whatever Alan Grayson is running – the rest can go fuck themselves.
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Cantwell lost me a long time ago. It was when she mouthed rhetoric about protecting women’s health rights but REFUSED to join the filibuster against Alito.
When she ran for re-election in 2006 we progressives had a great real progressive protest candidate in Hong Tran who ran against her. I was at the state convention that year. Maria had all the big wigs behind her, it turned out the reason for the entire convention was to film promos for her and not to craft a platform representing the work of the grassroots activists who’d gone through the caucus system in a non presidential year precisely to affect the platform.
Hong Tran was ignored by the PTB, as if there wasn’t a primary election with issues of war and justice. When Maria spoke at the convention an army of paid “volunteers” with Maria shirts and big signs, all funded by the corporations who loved Maria, drowned out the grass roots who were staging a protest based on her voting for EVERY funding of the Iraq War. We couldn’t compete with their noise makers and their signs blocked us out.
I remember at the legislative district meeting of the party when we were voting on whom we’d endorse before the caucus. We are one of the most progressive districts in the state. The entire Bellingham contingent were all in the Progressive Caucus. But at this meeting we had some Skagit County people too. We worked hard to get an endorsement for Hong Tran and we got it, along with our endorsing Maria. One of these Skagit people wanted to talk to me afterwards since I had been a strong voice for endorsing Hong Tran.
He looked at me with a furrowed brow and asked, “Why is this Hong Tran running anyway. Is it just to stick a needle in Maria’s eye?” To him the idea that an election was all about choosing the candidate with whom we most agree when there’s a party incumbent just didn’t make sense. When I explained that Maria had voted for funding for the war and Tran was solidly anti-war, he looked at me as if I was crazy and walked away.
I will never vote for Maria Cantwell. Never. I’ve had enough of corporate Democrats and the party faithful whose mindless loyalty to the party over peace and justice makes them not even understand the point of primaries.
oops! forgot all about that “because we fell asleep” bullshit line.
the author is:
1. 1 of the highly paid sell out honchos staying employed by blaming us little nobodies, instead of their own sell out asses.
2. an aspiring sell out honcho.
3. a, sadly, misdirected citizen.
4. a fracking idiot who doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
Funny how the “leaders” blame us for NOT running outta the trench into enemy fire while the “leaders” are in the rear chasing skirts and sucking down the caviar and chardonnay.
blame me? – go frack yourself.
rmm
I believe you’ve put your finger on it.
The notion that if the pissed-off dems (including disgusted progressives…) had just worked harder and had ignored the near-miraculous rehab that Obama was doing on the republican party, we really wouldn’t have gotten our asses handed to us in the mid-terms, is so perverted it’s obscene.
You can’t spin where the buck stops on this huge reversal of a great political win and a golden opportunity: it’s sitting right there in Barack Obama’s wallet. Some democrats may want to reward him with another 4 years for more of it, but I’m not one of them.
“We suck less!” was a lousy campaign slogan in the mid-terms and I think it’ll be even worse this time around.