John Kerry Boosts Chris Coons
I think we’ve all been a little disappointed since Chris Coons announced his Senate run but hasn’t been very visible. There’s some increasing evidence that his campaign is starting the ramp up, and he just got a big boost from John Kerry. John Kerry’s PAC announced his “Final Four,” four Senate seats that he says will make a great impact in November (excerpted text is from an email).
It’s very simple: The Senate seats left vacant by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the seat left open by health care reform’s champion Chris Dodd, and the open seat in Missouri being sought by a leading architect of the Tom Delay era in Congress, will all come down to the wire.
And oh how much the Party of No wants to crow about winning them. They want Republican victories in these races to be a big bold faced referendum on the Obama-Biden Administration and the change brought by a Democratic Senate.
The obstructionists and deniers have responded to the health care reform victory by going from “no” to “hell no.” They are attacking with everything they’ve got – the “target practice” of Sarah Palin was just a taste of what’s coming.
And these Senate seats are ground zero in the struggle to choose between a Senate that gets the job done for Americans, or a Senate that blocks, obstructs, and does the bidding of Wall Street not Main Street.
So what does Kerry say about Chris Coons?
In Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias is running to hold the open seat created by Barack Obama’s historic election, while my friend Chris Coons is running to fill the seat Joe Biden held for 37 years in Delaware.
Have you been holding out on us Chris? I had no idea that you and John Kerry were so close.
Snark aside, this is a big boost for Coons. John Kerry still boasts an impressive email list carried over from his 2004 campaign. I do find the company he’s keeping in Kerry’s list interesting. Blumenthal in Connecticut is ahead by 20+ points, Giannoulis in Illinois has a small lead over Mark Kirk, Carnahan is 4 points down in Missouri and Coons was down by double digits in the last polling I saw. The DE-Sen race is probably the most difficult of these four races – Coons is struggling with a late start and low name recognition against a popular pseudo-incumbent.
If you are inspired to donate, here is John Kerry’s Final Four Act Blue page.
Tags: Chris Coons, DE-Sen, John Kerry
Donating today is very important, for donations made by the 3/31/10 are reported, and can help the ‘me too’ donors, those who wait to see which candidates stand a chance of winning their races. Also, it is important for donors (across the country) to know that Chris has broad local support. I turned in my check in the past week.
Changing the subject here abit, but both dKos and OpenLeft are gearing up for their endorsements/fundraising for this cycle and looking for input on races to watch or be a part of. I was reading a dKos thread last night thinking that it really is too bad that neither Coons or Carney will be taking advantage of this.
John Kerry, the 2004 Ohio surrender-crat.
I can feel a Senator Castle coming on.
If you can be boosted by John Kerry, then you are awfully low.
Carney and especially Coons need to really get going. Castle can be beat, beside name recognition it’s hard to portray him as a strong candidate. I think most of the potential voters would prefer he retire.
I have seen Chris in Sussex Co. numerous times over the past several weeks so he is out there working, and he has been well received at the events I have been to. With this important fundraising quarter coming to a close, I expect he will be out and about even more.
I have not seen Coons in sussex, so he needs to work harder.
This is a terrific “get” for Chris Coons. Kerry has enormous credibility [everyone who has lost a race for president inspires some barbs from the peanut gallery, but Kerry proved to be a major mensch in the ’04 campaign] and an enormous mailing list. The email links the reader to http://www.actblue.com/page/myfinalfour
Coons is outworking Castle, as he must. Over these past few weeks, most of that work has had to be on the telephone.
Chris Coons’ Act Blue page is the 4th most active today.
This is a good thing, I think.
Be real Chris Coons has no chance against Castle which is sad!
How is John Kerry calling Chris Coons his friend a boost,let alone a “big boost” for Coons? MSNBC has reported several times, over the last month, that the WH is trying to convince DC media that the Delaware race is competitve. The push back by the WH (i.e. Biden) is an attempt to get the nmedia to believe this seat isn’t lost. Presumably they are also hoping to wake up Coons, and get him to campaign hard.But the sad reality is no matter how hard Coons run, he’ll get crushed in November. Seriously how many Democrats who normally sit out non-presidential elections are going to go out and vote for Chris Coons? Not many, especially in NCC where he is not even well liked by most Democrats, let alone with Independents.This is so depressing!!!!!