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Patty Murray Must Beware The Coming Wave

In Washington State, The Hill reports this morning that no state swung for Republicans in 1994 more than Washington state, and if a GOP wave crashes again in 2010, it’s looking more likely that Senator Patty Murray could be swept away.  The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) could land a big prize in two-time gubernatorial nominee Dino Rossi, who’s considering a Senate bid.  And he appears to be more interested than previously thought…. In fact, two polls have shown Rossi with a small lead on Murray. Rasmussen showed him ahead 48-46, while GOP pollster Bob Moore, who polled for Rossi’s gubernatorial campaign, had him ahead 45-43. In addition, an independent SurveyUSA poll last month showed Murray with a negative approval rating (43-50) for the first time since it began tracking her five years ago….Murray was on nobody’s target list before Brown’s win, but Republicans think they might be able to go after her using two attack lines: that she contributed to the debt as an appropriator, and that she has been a visible face of the Democratic healthcare bills.  “Instead of working across party lines to strengthen the economy and grow jobs, she’s been focused on expanding government and putting federal bureaucrats in charge of our healthcare system,” said a spokesman for the NRSC, Brian Walsh…. If they don’t get it in Rossi, the party will likely turn to Hutchison, whom NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) mentioned in a briefing Monday. Hutchison took a respectable 41 percent in heavily Democratic King County in November. She told The Hill that she had a conversation with Cornyn recently and that she has eyed a Senate run “for years.”

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