On St. Patrick's Day 2005, then Congressman Rob Portman was tapped by President George Bush as U.S. Trade Envoy. The progressive blogosphere paid attention within two hours and the very next day, Swing State Project publisher DavidNYC wrote the following on the front page of Daily Kos:
Today's Sacramento Bee has a recap of yesterday's campaigning in the fourth district where Brown's major event had four times as many people as Doolittle's:
"We've got to knock on every single door," screamed former Democratic Senate candidate Paul Hackett, out from Ohio to boost the Brown troops, at a spirited rally Saturday afternoon at the Roseville Opera House.
"You can rest on Wednesday," Hackett told the 200 or so flag-waving Brown loyalists chanting "Char-lee, Char-lee, Char-lee."
At the Doolittle campaign, it was the same message.
"How this election turns out may determine who controls the House of Representatives next year," Doolittle told a group of 50 or so supporters at his Roseville campaign headquarters before they headed out with him to canvass neighborhoods.
