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Callahan: Bad year for incumbents, not Dems
It’s conventional wisdom that Democrat John Callahan would have had a much better shot at unseating Congressman Charlie Dent (R-15) had he run during one of his party’s wave years in 2006 or 2008.
But Callahan says he’s not worried about running against the political tide.
“I don’t know that it’s a bad year for Democrats, I think it’s a bad year for incumbents,” Callahan said in a video interview with CQ-Roll Call. “So I think in an anti-incumbent environment, in a district that’s a [Democratic-leaning] district, running against someone who’s been a career politician and a Washington DC three-term incumbent, I like my chances. I think it’s actually a good year to run.”
The Lehigh Valley race is currently No. 5 on the pa2010.com Congressional Power Rankings.
See the interview below.
September 2, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Tags: Charlie Dent, John Callahan, PA-15
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Jon Geeting
Sep 2nd, 2010
The tide is still pretty anti-Democratic, but that said, the point about the Democratic lean (D+2) of the district is important. It’s much more fun being in opposition, than on the governing side, so in this district Dems get to pretend its 2008 all over again and kick the GOP out of power. That will be especially attractive considering that Charlie Dent hasn’t lifted a finger on jobs in 2 years. Despite being willing to pony up deficit spending for other “emergencies” like expiring tax cuts for multimillionaires.
http://www.lehighvalleyindependent.com/2010/09/charlie-dents-plan-for-jobs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LehighValleyIndependent+%28Lehigh+Valley+Independent%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Peyronie
Sep 3rd, 2010
This was obviously said during a corner bar competition to see who could get your friends to crack up first. It didn’t work because good humor needs at least a grain of truth to be funny. . .