Campbell Brown is leaving NBC to go into oblivion, I mean CNN.
Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt (OH-2) has made some new friends.
CityBeat:
U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Miami Township) is the target of a campaign by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI), which is pressuring her to re-evaluate her stance on the war.
The Iraq Summer Campaign is a nationwide effort to target 40 members of Congress who have supported President Bush in sending an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq. Schmidt has been vehemently hawkish since her first campaign for the House of Representatives in 2005....
....Evidence suggests that Schmidt is out of touch with the desires of her constituents, Barker says.
"When polled, 70 percent of the people in District 2 said they wanted a responsible and speedy withdrawal from Iraq," she says.
Rothenberg says support for withdrawing troops from Iraq has spread.
"This is a really mainstream view," he says. "We're not doing any persuasion here."
A USA Today poll taken July 10 found that seven out of 10 Americans oppose the war.
However, getting Schmidt to change her mind on the escalation of troop levels is a tall order. Even in the face of growing opposition to the war, she has stayed by Bush's side. She voted July 12 against a bill that would require a binding timeline for the re-deployment of troops out of Iraq.....
Schmidt is having difficulty raising campaign money. Could her political career in DC come to an end next year at election time? We can only hope.