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.