Challenge: Have Peter Schiff defeat Linda McMahon in the 2010 Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate Primary. And also have him defeat Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the senate election.
Challenge: Have Peter Schiff defeat Linda McMahon in the 2010 Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate Primary. And also have him defeat Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the senate election.
*Way* too right-wing for Connecticut. We're talking about a state that has gone for the Democratic presidential candidate by double digits in every election from 1996 on.
Ralph Nader at one point considered running for senate in Connecticut that year but decided against it. If Nader had gotten in the race and Peter Schiff was the Republican nominee, Would Schiff's campaign have been helped or hurt by this?
Ralph Nader at one point considered running for senate in Connecticut that year but decided against it. If Nader had gotten in the race and Peter Schiff was the Republican nominee, Would Schiff's campaign have been helped or hurt by this?
As for Linda McMahon, when you come in second to a guy who lied repeatedly about serving in Vietnam, you have problems.
Having Dodd run for the seat again puts it closer than having Blumenthal be the nominee, but not enough for Schiff
I meant Blumenthal in the general election in 2010, not the Republican primary...
Yeah, McMahon was probably going to lose, especially since Blumenthal, from what you are saying, was a pretty popular politican in CT.
TBH, in the financial world in which he lives, and the sound-chamber of Fox News and Westport CT, it would have been easy for him to believe he might have a chance. If Fairfield County was its own state,and they ceded Bridgeport to New Haven County. The truth is, Schiff couldn't get elected to Congress from the 4th Congressional District (SW Fairfield County), never mind all of CT as a Senator. And the Filthy Rich 4th is the most affluent region of the USA (Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, Westport, Southport), alongside with Orange County, CA.
Very few in the financial world take Peter Schiff seriously.