Trib reports he doesn’t want to make the run. All that oppo for nothing….sigh
Another name has come up, Dr. Andrea Grubb Barthwell, an African-American doctor. Someone is either floating the name out of courtesy or is on some seriously good crack. Just because someone is African-American doesn’t make them a good challenger to Obama. Without any support on the ground she’d be a disaster.
Update: From Roll Call, it looks like she is getting support out of DC.
That possibility appears to be a long shot, however, according to one knowledgeable Illinois Republican.
?She is a complete unknown who has made no effort to reach out to people in Illinois or the committee members and party leaders who will ultimately make this decision,? said the source.
Hard to say where exactly this is coming from, but my guess is that it is one of two things:
1) she sees a chance to jump up the ladder quick in the GOP and has her friends backing her
2) National GOP sees this as a chance to do some outreach to African-American voters. Not a bad strategy, but it’d kill the down ballot this time.
Well, maybe he doesn’t want to run BECAUSE of the oppo! Did you think of it that way?