Dan Lungren is not a Republican in name only, he’s just a vanilla Republican who orbits closely around the Party leadership. Like any Representative, he makes the occasional head-scratching vote. Neither the Republican base nor independent/DTS voters are enamored of him (vanilla is just too bland). This may not be the year to be and run-of-the-mill incumbent.
He’s in trouble, and if Republicans hope to take the House in November, his campaign had better get with it. The Democrats have found a very credible candidate, Dr. Ami Bera, a first generation American physician of immigrants from India.
The DCCC has him on their special love list, and he’s going to have way more money come the general election. In response, the Lungren campaign recently delivered to district mailboxes a milquetoast piece chock full of Republican platitudes. Congressman, you’ve got to do better.
Dr. Bera is attractive, articulate, and well spoken. In other words, just the kind of supposed “moderate Democrat” that might win in a district that only “leans” Republican.
Lungren is going to have to make the case that Dr. Bera will just help keep in power the worst congress in generations. His team needs to think terribly hard about lifting him out of his self-imposed mediocrity. While Republicans across the nation are getting revved up about the fall elections, his district’s voters are depressingly moribund.
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