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John Fredericks Morning Line: Key Senate Races

written by Guest Contributor John Fredericks February 4, 2015

Below are my morning line odds on key state senate races in 2015. As you know I’m seldom wrong…[read_more]

District 06 

Lynwood Lewis (D) – 5.5 over Richard Ottinger (R)

Wow. Lynwood Lewis should play the power ball. He hit the re-election jack-pot when 2014 special election foe and nemesis Wayne Coleman bailed out of this race. We had the venerable and likeable Coleman a four point favorite over “Landslide Lynwood.” This represents an 9.5 point swing.

Not to take anything away from Norfolk attorney Ottinger, but he has an uphill battle on the shore. And Rob Bloxum will sit this one out — again. It’s Lynwood’s to lose.

District 21

John Edwards (D) – 2.5 over Nancy Dye, M.D. (R)

Oh-oh. Senate Leader Dick Saslaw better recover that missing $600,000 for this race. It’s going to be a barn-burner.

Senator John Edwards, facing perhaps the toughest fight of his life now has to deal with Norfolk-Southern’s decision to pack up its track and eliminate another 550 jobs in a region that has been ravaged economically by POTUS EPA’s over-zealous war on coal.

It doesn’t matter if Edwards was involved or not – he’s the incumbent.

He’s facing a nightmare opponent: Nancy Dye, a retired surgeon who is a relentless, tireless campaigner who plays to win. Dye is well known in the area and well liked across the ideological spectrum. Like Edwards, her ties to the Roanoke based Southwest Virginia district run deep and her Rolodex matches Edwards’. Youthful, crisp, articulate and fearless, she’s the last candidate an entrenched incumbent would choose to square off with. Plus she signed up nationally known general political consultant Chris LaCivita, of Swift Boat fame. Ouch.

Eight months out and its less than a field goal.

This race has “upset special” written all over it.

District 07

Frank Wagner (R) – 7 over Gary McCollum (D) 

I knew there was a reason I canceled Cox cable last year and went to Direct TV: McCollum running around Virginia as a Cox big-wig executive touting Medicare expansion.

Want my TV cable and Internet business? Stay out of political advocacy and work on lowering my rates.

McCollum’s position on Obama-Care won’t play well in this rough and tumble blue-collar working class district. It’s the Ben Chafin District 38 race all over again. These Beach and Norfolk voters want jobs, not government hand-outs.

As for Wagner: bet against him at your own peril. Tough, resilient, persistent and deadly, he’ll pull out all the stops to crush the first-timer.
He’s an ex-deep sea diver with powerful ties to the district’s veteran voters. I’ll lay the touchdown here. Forgetaboudit. 

Wagner exceeds expectations. Next stop: Richmond Convention Center.

John Fredericks Morning Line: Key Senate Races was last modified: February 4th, 2015 by Guest Contributor John Fredericks
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Guest Contributor John Fredericks

John Fredericks is a syndicated morning radio talk show host based in Washington D.C. Fredericks show can be heard weekdays 6-10 a.m. on WNTW AM 820 & 92.7 FM NEWS-TALK in Richmond, WJFN 100.5 FM in Charlottesville and west Henrico, WPMH AM 1010 & 100.1 FM and 96.7 FM News-Talk in Hampton Roads, WBRG SuperTalk AM 1050 and 105.1 FM in Lynchburg and Roanoke and WBOB AM 600 & 101.1 FM in Jacksonville, FL. The John Fredericks show is streamed live through his APP: http://www.johnfredericksradio.com/install-app

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