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Mark Schauer (D-MI) Trails Badly in Re-Election Bid

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2010 at 11:03 AM  | 

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Another day, another Democrat incumbent trailing badly in his re-election bid:

Just a few days after Reps. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) and Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio) saw themselves trailing by 17 points apiece in polling conducted for a Democratic-leaning blog, a Republican poll shows freshman Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.) down by nine.

The National Research Inc. poll, conducted for former Rep. Tim Walberg’s (R-Mich.) campaign, has Walberg leading Schauer 46-37, and 50-40 with “leaners.”

Add Driehaus and now Schauer to a list which includes Frank Kratovil, Earl Pomeroy, and Dina Titus as incumbents whom polls already show to be gravely endangered in their re-election bids. That’s already a rather lengthy list, considering both that it’s too early in the cycle for much individual race polling, and that high name identification generally means that incumbents rarely trail in general.

I believe my colleague Moe Lane would say ‘DOOM.’

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  • djemi

    Used to live in his district, now I’m literarily on the wrong side of the road, but I’ll be doing whatever I can do to help whomever wins the Republican Primary in the 7th. In the 8th myself.
    Everytime I called his offices, both district and DC I was treated like a two year old that just didn’t understand. I never got responses to any of my request for info, especially when it came to his Public district appearences.

    If you are in the area:

    Eaton County Young Republicans

    Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010

    Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

    Location: Jersey Giant

    Street: 516 South Clinton Street

    City/Town: Grand Ledge, MI

    • mikefisk

      Being not far from his district, I know people here who helped campaign for Schauer (although, obviously, keeping safe distance from them), and I got the feeling that, by toppling Walberg, they essentially gained a Pyrrhic victory. Yes, they spent massive amounts of time, money, and effort getting Schauer into Congress, but once he won there was a sort of a “now what?” mentality among my left-leaning PoliSci buddies.

      While they won the seat in 2008, they did it with the help of lots of money, lots of support, and an abysmally bad year to be running as a Republican. And even still they nearly didn’t pull it off. Now, two years later having none of those three in place, it’s an uphill climb even if you have incumbency.

  • joayn

    … must be included in all articles from now on regarding fading Dems and their schemes for the unwashed masses.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

  • Republican_Michigander

    Schauer won because the NRCC abandoned him, Obama won the district, the populists swung hard after the bailouts (which Walberg opposed, but his leadership didn’t), Schauer hides his leftism well, and higher turnout in Albion, Battle Creek, Jackson City, the Lansing portion of the district (Arbor Point), and the close in Ann Arbor suburbs.

    Walberg still outperformed McCain, by nearly 10% in some areas like Hillsdale. Schauer’s a yes man, and those types aren’t respected in the 7th. It’s conservative independent, no Bush on the ticket, gubernatorial year after 8 years of Granholm.

    I think this one will be ours again.