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In Alabama, Rep. Bobby Bright avoids perils of anti-government mood
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 31, 2010 02:00pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Amy Gardner |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MONTGOMERY, ALA. -- For a first-term Democrat in a solidly Republican district, Rep. Bobby N. Bright did something curious on a recent weekday morning while speaking at a Kiwanis Club breakfast: He talked about the goodness of federal spending.
Even more curious, perhaps, is that his audience didn't mind.
Bright, a dry-witted former mayor of Montgomery, looks on paper like one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress, with a winning margin in 2008 of just 1,700 ballots, a district that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took in that year's presidential election with 63 percent of the vote, and a constituency deeply unhappy with President Obama and Democrats in Congress.
But Bright, 57, is well liked in southeastern Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. In the most recent polls, he has a double-digit lead over the Republicans vying to face him in the fall.
And he's running ahead without riding the anti-government wave sweeping the nation. In some ways, he's practicing the opposite: rattling off the schools, bridges, unpaved roads and sewer systems that need funding; celebrating the jobs that two big local military installations bring; promoting earmarks for agricultural research. It's a reminder that in some places, even among conservative voters, "government" and "spending" are not necessarily dirty words. |
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