Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Republicans fail to woo top candidates

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Click on Katherine Harris' Senate campaign Web site and look for the blog.

"This section will be updated soon," reads a message — dated May 29.

A Web site 100 days out of date is hardly the worst of it for Harris, whose political wounds, many of them self-inflicted, make her the poster woman for Senate Republican recruiting woes. Missed opportunities, stumbles and bad breaks in a half-dozen states or more in 2005 have tilted the map toward the Democrats in ways that are still unfolding.

"In every single state where they were challenging one of our incumbents they did not get their first choice and in many cases they did not get their second," said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, head of the Democratic campaign committee.

As a result, he said, "we can spend our time and money challenging their incumbents."



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