Perhaps the Wyoming Democrats could counter with Caroline Kennedy.
Or Chelsea Clinton 
She did do those things, but I remember her promises as more patronizing than anything. Reading up on the race on Wikipedia, she probably did more than I remember, but it was just a feeling I had at the time that she didn’t give a crap about me as a New Yorker and I rated even lower on the scale as a non-NYC resident.
Apparently most people felt she was more sincere. She got more votes in traditionally Republican areas of the state than most Democrats did. (It probably didn’t help that Giuliani made his own gaffe about upstate voters. Although Lazio wasn’t able to recover this lost support after Giuliani dropped out.)
I do agree that what you’re describing is a common problem in New York state politics. New York City has become the dog and the upstate gets treated like it’s just the tail. Clinton was able to turn this to her advantage by recognizing that to a lot of upstate voters, a candidate from NYC running for state office will be perceived as being just as much a “carpet bagger” as somebody from out of state. Giuliani and Lazio were seen as people who wanted to be elected Senator of New York City. Clinton had no roots in any part of New York so upstate voters didn’t feel she’d show any preference towards New York City.
That certainly isn’t the case in the state legislature.
I don’t see how it matters. If the population of Wyoming see her as one of their own by reasons of ideology rather than geographical presence…well, what of it?
Come to think on it, isn’t Norm Coleman looking for job?
Definitely. I don’t begrudge her her win (I voted Lazio, but as a pseudo-Democrat at the time, I would have been OK with a Hilary win) and I even voted for her during her re-election campaign.
Justin, as a Republican (my reasonable assumption) you weren’t planning on voting for her anyway, am I correct?
Sorry, didn’t see post directly above mine.
BTW, I assume the phenomenon is universal in state with 1 dominant big city. (MA, IL, OR, WA, LA) Besides, when you run for office you pay attention to where the voters are. It’s self interest.
No, our state legislature is dysfunctional in entirely different ways.
Not sure how many people on this board even know who he is.
I’m hesitant to mention it because it’ll reveal how old I am, but I did briefly volunteer for Andy Dawkins way, way back when he ran for the Mayor of St. Paul against Coleman.
Norm Coleman is the guy who got to the bottom of the Oil For Food scandal.
I guess she wants to start easy and take a dry run before she runs for public office in an actual State of the Union.
What?
I wonder if she will claim she isn’t really part of the Legislative Branch if she wins, so she can go off and do her own thing
Hear, hear.
There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that Liz Cheney will win that race. Enzi is quite popular. I almost never vote for a Republican, but I voted for Enzi. Liz Cheney may be planning to go negative, but the good people of Wyoming will not stand for that. The last time a Republican went negative we ended up with a Democratic governor here in the second-most Republican of states (second only to Utah). That was when Eli Beebout lost to Dave Freudenthal. Republicans around here are a cut above the common variety. Once in a while they do something really good.
The TEA Party hereabouts stumbled badly right out of the gate. Let’s see how their most successful candidate so far has done:
“The 185-page report, issued by a team headed by Rawlins lawyer Cathy McPherson and formed by Gov. Matt Mead, contained accounts of possible misuse of the state airplane, improper spending of federal money and employee complaints of a hostile workplace.”
There have been allegation of her threatening employees with a knife!
IMO Liz Cheney is heading for a fall. Enzi is a rock-ribbed conservative–I would be surprized if any Tea Partier had a problem with him–and has made a point to not make political enemies on the right. And while the Cheney name still carries weight in the state (and money shouldn’t be a problem for her campaign), Wyoming is still the lowest-populated state in the union (~550K–less than DC yet the federal district gets two fewer senators. Go figure.). That means (1) you don’t really need to spend alot of ad money to blanket the state; in fact over-exposed TV ads could be a real problem; (2) personal relationships matter far more, and Enzi has probably been cultivating every Rotary club, VFW hall, state party office, and weekly paper editor in every po-dunk Cowboy state town for decades.
It’s hard to argue with Ed Gillespie’s skeptical assessment of the race: Liz Cheney will be quickly portrayed as “a housewife who’s kind of bored who moved back to Wyoming after a long time to run for the Senate”.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cheney-reiterates-she-is-not-pro-gay-marriage
The money quote:
“I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage,” Cheney said in the statement according to CNN. “I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.”
What the heck does the last phrase mean? I guess us people can do whatever we want for marriage. Polygamy, bestiality, alien porn:dubious:
The mind boggles over the possibilities. I must say, this is a very liberal stance for someone running in a conservative state. [Yeah, I know the first part refers to the states deciding but I’m clipping out the last part for the fun]
I especially like the RINOs still pulling the “push poll” strategy on each other. Just saying.
She’s also a douche-carpetbagger. Her gay sister must be so proud of her.
It’s easy for a conservative to take a “let the people decide” stance in a predominantly conservative state. If the people are conservative, it’s fine to get their stamp of approval on stuff. It’s when the people start making the wrong choices that you need Congress to step in and enact a gay marriage ban.
Liz Cheney has quit the Wyoming Senate race.
Link
She says “Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my campaign,” but when have there not been serious health issues in her family?
I suspect she realized a win to be extremely unlikely.
Yeah, a serious health issue came up. Her campaign was brain dead and on life support and it was time to pull the plug.