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November 08, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Rightroots Losers
For the last three months of Campaign 2006, leading Republican bloggers touted 21 House and Senate candidates, raised money for them and encouraged voters to go cast ballots for them yesterday.
Today, they have a 2-19 record to show for those efforts. Yes, the GOP bloggers who for two years have ridiculed the Democratic netroots for their poor electoral win-loss record now are being forced to swallow the bitter, and in this case ironic, pill of political defeat.
Most of the anointed candidates were easily defeated, and that reality apparently is so painful that all details of the "Rightroots" campaign were quickly removed from the Web site of ABC PAC, where it had resided and been regularly updated since August.
The only thing on the ABC PAC page now is this boast: "Because of you, ABC PAC was able to raise almost $300,000 for Republican House and Senate candidates online! This is an amazing achievement that we should all be very proud of." Oh, and there is an appeal for more money, too.
Here are the returns for the blog-backed Rightroots candidates, based on the results available at CNN when I wrote this post:
House
Winners
-- Michele Bachmann (Minnesota): 50 percent
-- Peter Roskam (Illinois): 51 percent
Losers
-- Chuck Blasdel (Ohio): 38 percent
-- Max Burns (Georgia): 49 percent
-- John Gard (Wisconsin): 49 percent
-- Diana Irey (Pennsylvania): 39 percent
-- Jeff Lamberti (Iowa): 46 percent
-- David McSweeney (Illinois): 44 percent
-- Ray Meier (New York): 45 percent
-- Ralph Norman (South Carolina): 43 percent
-- Rick O'Donnell (Colorado): 42 percent
-- Van Taylor (Texas): 40 percent
-- Scott Tipton (Colorado): 37 percent
-- Chris Wakim (West Virginia): 36 percent
-- Mike Whalen (Iowa): 43 percent
-- Andrea Lane Zinga (Illinois): 43 percent
Senate
Losers
-- Mike Bouchard (Michigan): 41 percent
-- Thomas Kean (New Jersey): 45 percent
-- Mark Kennedy (Minnesota): 38 percent
-- Mike McGavick (Washington): 39 percent
-- Michael Steele (Maryland): 44 percent
Posted by Danny | 12:43 PM
