WASHINGTON — The Indiana Senate candidate Richard E. Mourdock’s reintroduction of rape and abortion into the political dialogue this week is the latest in a series of political missteps that have made the Republican quest to seize control of the Senate a steeper climb.
Once viewed as likely to win the Senate, Republicans are now in jeopardy of losing seats in Massachusetts and Maine. If they do, they will need to win at least five seats held by Democrats and hold three other Republican seats at risk to net the three needed to take the Senate if Mitt Romney wins the presidency.
If President Obama prevails, Republicans will have to win at least one additional seat in a state where they are seen as slightly behind — in Connecticut, Florida, Ohio or Pennsylvania.
“Republicans can do it,” said Jennifer Duffy, a Senate political analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “It’s just getting a lot harder.”
Rob Jesmer, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Thursday that Republican candidates were within reach of victory in 10 to 12 competitive races, with Mr. Romney’s improvement in the polls lifting candidates in states that were out of play six weeks ago.
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The Governor has shown us time and time again what kind of leader he would be when the going get’s tough.
EVERY TIME there seems to be an issue that is ‘hard’, he avoids it like the plague.
His mode of operation seems to be that if he just avoids anything ‘tough’ people
just give up and move on to something else.
That is not leadership, that is extremely weak and spineless. This is a man
HE ENDORSED this week for high office and will oversea womens health
legislation, and NOW he has ‘no comment’.
‘Gods WIll’ has NO place in the same sentiment as ‘rape’. Not even in
some abstract Lenny Bruce joke. My boy just returned in August from
whatever it is they are still doing in Iraq, and we SEND kids overseas to
combat extremism brought around by the ‘Gods will’ mentality. It has ZERO
place here at home in the US Government.
Governor Romney is a disaster, you can not like the President, but at least he
takes stands and you know where he stands on stuff like this. The Governor is acting like a pathetically weak and spineless chicken. Expect to continue him to exhibit ZERO leadership when it is needed.