Jennifer Duffy

Jennifer Duffy
campaign candidate difficult insists manager race ship team
This race is more than uphill. At this point, for a team to come in and try to right the ship is going to be very tough. It's going to be difficult as long as the candidate insists on being the candidate, the campaign manager and the strategist.
consider race until viable
Until you get a viable opponent, ... I consider it a third-tier race.
angry putting
They're angry at him for putting her there.
against hear kinds marquee people race rick running stories telling
This is the marquee race in 2006. We hear all kinds of stories of people who are telling donors, 'Hey, he's not with you on all the issues, but he's running against Rick Santorum.
bottom democrats line pick question
The bottom line is, Democrats will pick up seats. The question is how many.
chance couple democrats picking slim
I see Democrats picking up a couple of states. I think there is a slim chance they can pick up the Senate.
hard hit land seven since storm
I see a storm coming, it's forming. But since it won't hit land for seven months, it's hard to know what it's actually going to look like.
candidate issues paper position question
I think it's one of these issues that every candidate is going to have a position paper on it and it's going to be a question in every debate.
allies campaign party run understand
I think that the (Democratic) party and their allies understand he has not had to run a campaign in a long time.
anybody debate god help
God help anybody who has to debate with Byrd.
joy leadership lets money race
The joy of being in congressional leadership and never having a competitive race is it lets you keep stuffing money in the bank.
joy state
The joy of being a battleground state is that you get presidential hopefuls in 2006.
polls swayed terribly
I'm not terribly swayed by polls at this point.
friends-or-friendship giving helping winning
It was a factor. Winning friends by helping them out, giving them money, is always a big deal.