Elizabeth Dole Could Lose Her Seat

CQ Politics:

North Carolina Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole holds the edge in her bid this year for a second term. But fluctuating polls over the month and a half since state Sen. Kay Hagan won the May 6 Democratic primary have raised questions about how solid and secure Dole is in her status as the favorite.

Hagan defeated four primary opponents with 60 percent of the vote, a strong showing that boosted her into a statistical tie with Dole in a poll taken shortly thereafter. A more recent survey released June 18 showed Dole with a more substantial cushion, but her 48 percent to 38 percent in that poll did not suggest that the contest is out of reach for the longshot challenger.

Dole enjoys near-universal name ID in the state where she was born and grew up before heading to Washington for a career that culminated in her appointments as secretary of Labor and secretary of Transportation by Republican presidents. She has national prominence as the wife of retired longtime Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican nominee for president, and she staged a brief bid for the 2000 GOP presidential nomination.

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Comments

[PlantGod72]

I just went on Kay Hagan's campaign site:

http://www.kayhagan.com/

and she looks like a terrific candidate.

She would be another very promising addition to the new Democrat-controlled senate. I decided to donate to her campaign, and I'm from CA! (NC, you can buy me a drink the next time I'm there)

[Topfeeder]

My old mama in Carolina lost respect and tolerance for Liddy after her last face lift. Mama says she is as lopsided as a 3-legged hound dog.

[PlantGod72]

LMAO!

[itmaybetoolate]

I am sending Kay Hagen a check today!

[MaybeMilo]

We can only hope - she really disgusts me.

[seenitall]

buh-bye, darlin'...

[speakingtruth2power]

Any state that reelects their GOP Senator should not get any extra federal funds.

Let them eat cake!

[mindlessmissy]

Let 'em eat Dust will be more like it ...

[condew]

Guess she'll have to go back to taking money from the Red Cross.

[bryan0218]

Sorry to be critical, but it's time Huff'post got a new headline writer. Headline says: "Elizabeth Dole Could Lose Her Seat," then when I read the story she is up by 10!

[Mikeatle]

Well, to be honest, she could lose her seat. There's no denying that potential fate. Perhaps HuffPo is doing what is necessary to get you to read the article. I think it worked.

[Mutineer]

Liddy (she hates that name) will be in the fight of her life. NC is turning purple. The demographics are not favorable for her.

That southern belle thing is getting old, even in NC. Hell, she doesn't even live in NC and hasn't for decades. Can't wait to see her gone.

[jeanrenoir]

Great news! What in the world is Dole DOING in DC anyway? We NEVER hear her name mentioned in the news. Never. A younger, more vigorous woman calling for change should blow her away.

[plafayette]

Hey North Carolina, is there anything we in the blogsphere can do to help ya'll get this belle outta this office and on her way home to her fine husband and children? At seventy-two this is either a very old, old picture or this poor woman has been surgically replaced! Lawd, the real Miss Libby may be laying helpless upon some dark dank hospital floor or put up in a jar high on a dark shelf someplace. Somebody call Oliver Stone!

I am simply amazed at the amount of nepotism in American poitics! Guess the problem increased after the Bd. of Education took civics off the public school curriculum. Imagine that American Government- closed to the public!

[Chillinout]

Did they really take civics out of the schools? That would explain a lot of the inane posts you see on this site.

[adzeman]

Oligarchy may be the word you were looking for.

[RobinSeattle]

God, she makes me want to puke.

Her time running the Red Cross was an unmitigated disaster.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19960701/heller
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7DC1E39F933A05756C0A960958260

It seems to me that it would be easy to cut her up in ads talking about that and how she has rubber stamped the American decline engendered by the Bush Administration, especially the soaring budget deficits that have put us at the mercy of the Chinese and the Saudis (who hold substantial shares of bonds that helped finance those deficits)and the constant lying on Iraq.

[Davwbaird]

I hope she does, the fewer stan d in the way Gop'ers the better.

[sky2blue]

Is it true the Rep candidate for Senate may lose in NC. Don't play with my feelings right now, HuffPo. I'm really emotional!

[Danny]

Someone mentioned that Dole has so much more money than her challenger Kay Hagen. Well, I think the time has come for even well-funded candidates to fail. And Elizabeth Dole is exhibit A of this new age.

[BabsfromKS]

Glamour Shots did a nice job on her photo

[ErnestineBass]

pffft ~snicker~

I hate Glamour Shots...it­'s like false advertising.