Terri Lynn Land
The National Journal, a D.C. based publication that focuses on politics, writes that Republicans are not very inspired by Terri Lynn Land as a U.S. Senate candidate.
The Journal's Tim Alberta writes:
There's one simple reason Michigan Republicans worked feverishly to recruit someone other than Land to run: She is not a top-tier candidate. The last few months of her campaign is proof, revealing the warts and weaknesses that her allies have always known could ruin the GOP's best opportunity in two decades to take a grab at this Senate seat.
Certainly, Land has some things going for her. The former secretary of state is a woman in a male-dominated party. She's known by GOP donors nationwide after serving on the Republican National Committee, and has raised impressive sums of money, self-funding roughly one-third of her campaign. She also won two statewide elections with healthy majorities, giving her solid name identification.
The Journal quotes a longtime Michigan GOP heavyweight who asked not to be identified because of his friendship with Land:
"She wasn't anybody's first choice, for a variety of different reasons. And we're seeing why."
