Sizing up Shays, Himes campaign ads
Connecticut Post
Himes, a Greenwich resident and former Wall Street banker turned affordable-housing advocate, is using a tactic similar to many Democrats this year.
Democratic challenger Jim Himes is basing his advertising campaign on a nationwide strategy that hopes voters dislike President Bush enough to throw Shays out of office after 21 years.
Shays, a Bridgeport resident who for the last two years has been New England's lone Republican House member, is accentuating his positives in an attempt to survive what political analysts predict is imminent presidential victory for Democrat Barack Obama in Connecticut.
"The hopefulness of Obama," his print and broadcast ads said, next to a photo of the Democrat.
"The straight talk of McCain," it said adjacent to a picture of the Republican.
Dave Wasserman, House editor for the Cook Political Report -- a nationally known on-line newsletter that analyzes Congress and presidential races -- said this week that it's typical of Shays' re-election style.
"That has always been his approach to campaigns," Wasserman said in a phone interview from Washington. "I think it is a very smart approach this year." Shays is essentially hedging his bets and taking the best-known parts of each presidential candidate......
Comment:
Jim Himes had better go after Chris Shays hard and fast and expose him as a political goofball, or Chris Shays is going to squeak by one more time.
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Sacred Heart Press Release
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Shays Up By 10, With 29 Percent Undecided
by Mark Pazniokas
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Poll: Shays Leads Himes By 10 Percentage-Points
Courant,com
US Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4th District, had a 10 percentage-point lead over Democrat Jim Himes last month, according to a poll released Tuesday by Sacred Heart University.
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