National GOP campaign committee recruiting surge is not panning out

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National GOP campaign committee recruiting surge is not panning out
By Aaron Blake
November 06, 2007


A recruiting surge anticipated by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in recent weeks has yet to take shape as promised.

The NRCC said in late September that it would have challengers emerge in five specific top-targeted districts within a few weeks, but so far only one of those races has a nationally recruited challenger officially in the race.

Republicans have successfully recruited former Rep. Mike Sodrel (R-Ind.) against Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.), but they remain without top-flight challengers against Reps. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), John Barrow (D-Ga.), David Loebsack (D-Iowa) and Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.).

A possible GOP candidate against Loebsack, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, has said she will probably run, and the committee expects her to, but the others remain virtually unopposed.

With the 2008 elections coming into focus following Tuesday’s state and local elections, the House campaign committees are battling over each other’s recruiting failures and successes halfway through the cycle.

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