| You can tell we're two weeks outside a major election ... my Inboxes are filling up, by the hour, with stuff that's going on. So, let's break it down to highlights... CD07 -- According to a press release from the Schauer campaign, the Democrat raised $226,000 in the first two weeks of October, compared to $157,000 raised by Tim Walberg. The Schauer campaign reports having $735,000 on hand entering the last two weeks of the campaign, while the Walberg campaign either has $691,000 on hand if you believe a Schauer campaign press release or $412,000 if you believe Deb Price of The Detroit News. *--Responding to threats by the Walberg campaign over an ad that it is running in the 7th District, Health Care for America Now has responded by pouring more money into the district in adverstising. Walberg threatened to sue HCAN over this ad, and in response the group purchased more air time. Also, the group purchased space in the weekly newspaper The Tecumseh Herald for this full-page ad. *-- Update! ... An internal poll from a DCCC firm finds that Schauer has an 8 point lead. CD09 -- In a new internal poll, commissioned by the DCCC, Grove Insight found that Gary Peters had opened up a double digit lead over Joe Knollenberg. According to a press release, when 400 residents of the 9th District were polled, 46 of them said they plan to vote for Gary Peters. Thirty six percent said they would back Joe Knollenberg. Jack Kevorkian received 2 percent of the vote. |
