Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani will spend election night with IA GOV candidate Jim Nussle, following a break-neck week-long swing through the '06 battlegrounds. Giuliani will stump for Republican candidates in SC, PA, MI, FL, NJ and MD before ending up in Iowa, where he'll hold rallies for IA 01 candidate Mike Whalen and for Nussle. (Hotline sources)
Um, meanwhile: Pres Bush "is penciled in for a rally" with TX Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Election Eve (Austin American-Statesman).
"Serious members of both parties are prepared to seek a solution," Sen. Joe Biden (and Les Gelb) write in the Wall Street Journal today. On a conference call yesterday, Biden said that several senior Republican senators were prepared to negotiate with Democrats and endorse a new course for Iraq after the midterms. Biden refused to identify his secret supporters. The conference call was part of a very aggressive effort by the senior senator from DE to stamp his name on the Iraq debate going forward. There's a very good chance that he will succeed, and if he succeeds, there's a very good chance that his stature heading into the presidential race will be enhanced. Biden has been in this business long enough to know that a presidential run is his best (and last) chance to influence the direction of foreign policy and to fortify the Democrats' branding on that constellation of issues.
Squibs:
Al Gore will stump for Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in Seattle today (Everett Herald). He was in CA yesterday campaigning for Prop 87 (Oakland Tribune).
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) called stories about MA Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) political involvment with the LDS "pure bunk" (Deseret Morning News)
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said: "I thought my high school picture was cute" (New York Daily News). John Spencer (R) also allegedly said: "As long as I don't call her a lesbian, I'm OK" (New York Post).
Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk America PAC unveiled 27 members of its Michigan Young Leaders council. The name is a great improvement on "Youth Advisory Council." They include Dan Carlson, the MI Fed of College Republicans chair and Mike Flory, the chair of the MI Fed. of Young Republicans. Others: Trevor Pitsley, the MI GOP Youth Coalitions dir, MCFR exec. dir. Justin Zatkoff (who is also the Oakland College GOP chair,) Derek Moss, the MCFR pol. dir and Eastern MI College GOP chair; Brandon Moore, the MCFR campaign chair; Tyler Whitney, the MI Teenage GOP ex chair, Vincent Vernuccio, the chair of college GOpers at Ave Maria Law School, Leslie Little, the Central MI College GOP chair, Mike Compagnoni, the Albion College GOP chair, Jon Kowalsi, the Kettering College GOP chair, Amanda Zaluckyj, the Grand Valley State College GOP chair, Eric Schaefer, the Delta College Republican chair, Brandon Suff, the Saginaw Valley State College GOP chair, Allison Schneider, the U Mich GOP chair, Brian Steers, the U Mich GOP secretary, Erin Trussell, ex-chair of the MI State College GOP, Laina Shuey, the ex chair of Eastern MI College GOPers, Jonathan Mycek, U Mich Dearborn's ex chair, Blake Hurt, Kalamazoo College ex-chair, Nick Falvo, the vice chair of Ave Maria College, Jeane Hoffman, the secretary of Ave Maria college, Nathan Emmory, the vice chair of elections at Ave Maria College, Sarah Smith, the treasurer of GOPers at Ave Maria College, Andrew Ridella, the Kalamazoo College treasurer, and Lindsey Craif, the Kalamzazoo College secretary.
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