William A. Jacobson
Legal Insurrection
12/28/2011
Operation Counterweight has started. We need people in the House and Senate who are not afraid to fight.
In many states and districts, it will be easy. In others it will be hard. We are going to have to win a couple of hard ones in order to have the Senate we want, where we are not held hostage by one or two or three defections.
Incumbent Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse is assumed to be an easy winner in my home state of Rhode Island. He has a couple million in the bank, and Rhode Island is the bluest of blue states. But don’t let that deceive you. Whitehouse is beatable.
A recent Brown University poll found that Whitehouse’s approval rating was just 33%, compared to a 46.4% favorability rating for Democratic Senator Jack Reed and 44.2% for Obama.
Whitehouse, one of the most polarizing Democrats in the Senate, just is not well-liked. There is lingering resentment from Whitehouse’s infamous speech on the floor of the Senate when he invoked Kristallnacht and Aryan supremacists in attacking the opponents of Obamacare…
…Under the radar Barry Hinckley, a businessman from Newport, has been building his campaign,raising money, putting a staff together, and meeting people. Hinckley is new to politics, and is likely to be the Republican nominee since former Governor Donald Carcieri announced he was not running.
I had breakfast the other day with Hinckley, and was very impressed…
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