Noriega Reports for Duty; Gets NYT Mention
U.S. Senate candidate and Texas National Guardsman Rick Noriega reported for duty today with the 1-141 Infantry Battalion. He's going to be away for two weeks, but will get a short leave in order to attend the upcoming state Democratic convention.
Meanwhile, Bush-bashing New York Times columnist Frank Rich dropped Noriega's name in his Sunday column.
There are other signs of Iraq's durable political lethality as well. Looking for a bright spot in their loss of three once-safe House seats in special elections this spring, Republicans have duly noted that the Democrats who won in Louisiana and Mississippi were social "conservatives," anti-abortion and pro-gun. They failed to notice that all three Democratic winners, including the two in the South, oppose the war. Even more remarkably, new polling in Texas finds that an incumbent Republican senator and Bush rubber stamp, John Cornyn, is only four percentage points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Rick Noriega, a fierce war critic who served in Afghanistan.Rich is talking about two polls from a few weeks ago; but Cornyn's camp points to a more recent poll* by GOP pollster Mike Baselice.
It shows incumbent Senator John Cornyn (49%) with a sixteen-point lead over Rick Noriega (33%). The margin of error is +/-3.5% points. The numbers are broken down by geographic locations, and in Houston Noriega comes closest to Cornyn, but 9% points behind.
*What am I doing writing about a poll?!?! I said I wouldn't do it on PJ, unless it was a Belo poll. Okay this is my last time. Hold me to it.
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