You're kidding, right? This is what passes for analysis:

“Hubler, who had only $27,000 in the bank on June 30, is running in by far the most Republican district in Iowa, where McCain will run up a huge margin.”

Frankly, Mr. Rotherberg, I expect better effort from you. Hubler's polling shows that King is quite vulnerable. Discussion of the polling appeared here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/13/118…
A 36% approval rating for an incumbent is not good news, I'm told, although I'm no expert like yourself.

June was a 100 political years ago. Do you know how Hubler's fundraising stands now? I mention it because Harkin, Culver, Vilsack, and Berkley Bedell have all been fundraising for Hubler according to press reports. The Progressive Patriots Fund is helping him. Joe Trippi is helping him with media. It was also reported last spring that Obama was ahead of McCain in the Fifth, although I no longer have a link to that and don't have access to Lexis-Nexis. I'll bet you do though.

Lots of folks are polling there now, probably including the DCCC, Harkin's campaign, IDP, the Des Moines Register. Why don't you ask someone to share with you how McCain is doing now, instead of just assuming that past is prologue? Obama has field staff and offices in the district and a strong field effort. McCain has one office and not much else. How will he be getting the vote out?

Hubler is running hard. King has barely showed up in the district, has no campaign staff other than his son, and no campaign. He refuses to debate, and is off grandstanding on immigration again, with a phony hearing on immigrant crime. Meanwhile, people in the Fifth District have real issues they are worried about when they wake up in the morning.

Get out of D.C. and go take a look. Or don't write about what you don't know.

You're kidding, right? This is what passes for analysis:

“Hubler, who had only $27,000 in the bank on June 30, is running in by far the most Republican district in Iowa, where McCain will run up a huge margin.”

Frankly, Mr. Rotherberg, I expect better effort from you. Hubler's polling shows that King is quite vulnerable. Discussion of the polling appeared here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/13/118…
A 36% approval rating for an incumbent is not good news, I'm told, although I'm no expert like yourself.

June was a 100 political years ago. Do you know how Hubler's fundraising stands now? I mention it because Harkin, Culver, Vilsack, and Berkley Bedell have all been fundraising for Hubler according to press reports. The Progressive Patriots Fund is helping him. Joe Trippi is helping him with media. It was also reported last spring that Obama was ahead of McCain in the Fifth, although I no longer have a link to that and don't have access to Lexis-Nexis. I'll bet you do though.

Lots of folks are polling there now, probably including the DCCC, Harkin's campaign, IDP, the Des Moines Register. Why don't you ask someone to share with you how McCain is doing now, instead of just assuming that past is prologue? Obama has field staff and offices in the district and a strong field effort. McCain has one office and not much else. How will he be getting the vote out?

Hubler is running hard. King has barely showed up in the district, has no campaign staff other than his son, and no campaign. He refuses to debate, and is off grandstanding on immigration again, with a phony hearing on immigrant crime. Meanwhile, people in the Fifth District have real issues they are worried about when they wake up in the morning.

Get out of D.C. and go take a look. Or don't write about what you don't know.