I just wanted to give y'all a heads up about the Matt Brown campaign. I just got off the phone from a PR call announcing their internal polling results. Their numbers are looking good.
[via Matt Brown - Brown Gaining Momentum; Leads Whitehouse in New Poll [1]]:
Brown is leading Whitehouse, even though Whitehouse has a 16 point advantage in name identification (Whitehouse 81%, Brown 65%).
"Matt has run an aggressive grassroots campaign since day one and people are responding - but we aren't taking anything for granted until the final poll on Election Day," said Pete Brodnitz, campaign pollster. "Whitehouse has the backing of the political machine, the endorsements and money. But Matt Brown has the people. This poll shows Matt has room to grow and the more voters know about him, the more they like him."
As I said before, Matt Brown looks like a good pro-choice candidate to support. I am keeping my eye on this race because I am hearing good things that I have not heard from other campaigns here in New York :
* Early aggressive start.
* Decisive stance on the issues.
* National focus while building a local grassroots.
* Unapologetically pro-choice.
Jane Hamscher reports [2] that former president of NARAL Kate Michelman is supporting Brown with a "Women for Matt Brown" campaign [3].
This race is getting better and better each day. And this is the kind of candidate news we want to build here on the site. For that matter I've created a "Candidate Watch" category. Each week we will be writing about pro-choice candidates here at culturekitchen. But because we can't possibly cover everybody, we're asking your help. If you are going to blog about other candidates, please give us a holler. We'd like to create a weekly link list of "must-read" posts from around the blogosphere to circulate among other bloggers and the media.
Here's what you can do :
(1) If you have a blog with trackback or pingback capabilities, send a trackback to this and other "Candidate Watch" posts we may have.
(2) If you are a diarist at a community blog such as My Left Wing [4], feel free to leave your link in the comments of any "Candidate Watch" we post.
(3) Email is your last resort if only because you don't want to have your email lost in my inbox pile. Still, the best bet is to send it to candidatewatch [at] culturekitchen [dot] com [5].
Any questions? Just holler.
[6] | 
[7] | 
[8] | 
[9] | 
[10] | 
[11]