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Braley gets a new Republican challenger

by: desmoinesdem

Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 15:00:00 PM CST


Last week attorney Ben Lange of Independence told Ed Tibbetts of the Quad-City Times that he will run against two-term incumbent Bruce Braley in Iowa's first Congressional district. According to Tibbetts, Lange will make a formal announcement next month and was collecting signatures for his nominating petitions at the January 23 Republican caucuses. Before returning to Iowa to raise a family, Lange worked in Washington for Representative John Kline of Minnesota.

Iowa's first district has a partisan index of D+5, and Braley was re-elected with 64 percent of the vote in 2008. Even if 2010 turns out to be a Republican wave election (and it's sure starting to look that way), I doubt Braley is in danger in a district with 35,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. But voicing what Republicans across the country must be feeling, Lange told Tibbetts, "If it can happen in Massachusetts, it can happen in eastern Iowa."

In October, businessman and columnist Rod Blum of Dubuque announced plans to run against Braley, but I've heard virtually nothing about him since. I noticed that Blum did not file a year-end financial report with the Federal Election Commission, suggesting that either he is not running, or he has raised less than $5,000.

Braley's FEC filing indicated that during the fourth quarter of 2009 he raised $172,670 and spent $80,319. At the end of the year his campaign committee had $538,008 cash on hand and owed $21,657 in debts.

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If Braley is in trouble (0.00 / 0)
we Democrats will have to go back to the drawing board for 2014 when Tom Harkin is likely done.  One of the Vilsacks could give it a shot I suppose on a statewide basis although Christie would make sense running for what will be the new third I suppose.  I don't think Bruce Braley will be in trouble, he's got too much fire in his belly to get caught napping.  

vilsack??? in the 3rd? (0.00 / 0)
no chance.

3rd district Congressman Bran Zaun will have his home congressional district all locked up by that time.  All the publicity at that time will be how well he performed in his first two years in that office.


don't get your hopes up (4.00 / 1)
Even if Zaun wins the IA-03 primary and beats Boswell, which I sincerely doubt he will, he will be thrown into a 2012 GOP primary against Latham in the redrawn IA-03. Game over. No one would pick Zaun over someone with seniority on the Appropriations Committee.

Invite other Iowa political junkies to join us at Bleeding Heartland.

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that would be... (0.00 / 0)
Brad..not Bran....lol

Of course that's not going to happen (0.00 / 0)
Leonard Boswell will of course be defeating Zaun by a 53-47 margin or better if one of the ankle biters like Funk decides not to help Zaun.  Your man Zaun will make it a race mirage.  I admit he's a very formidable candidate.

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