Little-known Donner mounts long-shot Senate bid in Virginia
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 29th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Little-known Donner mounts long-shot Senate bid in Virginia
It’s normal for an aspiring politician to have role models, but Timothy E. Donner’s choices — Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and Christine O’Donnell — aren’t the usual ones.
Johnson (Wis.), Paul (Ky.) and O’Donnell (Del.) were all underdogs who surprised the Republican establishment and won the party nomination for U.S. Senate in 2010. Donner, a film-production company owner with no past involvement in electoral politics, is hoping to do the same in Virginia in 2012.
Donner is one of several Republicans either running or contemplating a bid to succeed retiring Sen. James Webb (D). Former senator George Allen is the Republican front-runner, while former Virginia Tea Party Patriots head Jamie Radtke has also drawn some attention to her campaign. The nominee will probably face former governor Timothy M. Kaine (D) in November.
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Romney and his advisers are working backward from November 2012. They believe that the economy will decide the outcome of the election and that the president has yet to convince voters that his economic policies have worked. They argue that Romney’s long experience in the private sector — his tenure as an elected official was just four years — makes him the Republican best positioned to challenge the president on how to fix what’s wrong.
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