Fresh off of her success in the primaries, where about two-thirds of her candidates won Republican nominations, Sarah Palin continues her midterm campaign with a new website and a renewed focus. Yesterday, she took the occasion of the six-month mark of ObamaCare to relaunch Take Back the 20, her campaign to win 20 Congressional districts where Democrats voted for ObamaCare while the district supported her and John McCain in the last election:
On March 23, when Obamacare was signed into law, I launched my “Take back the 20” campaign, focusing on 20 congressional districts that John McCain and I carried in 2008 which are or were represented by members of Congress who voted in favor of Obamacare. They need to be held accountable for those votes. They voted for Obamacare. Now we can vote against them. We need to replace them with representatives who will respect the will of the people.
That’s why today I’m launching a new Take Back the 20 website at www.takebackthe20.com!
TakeBackthe20.com provides information about the candidates in these 20 districts who are committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare. It has links to their personal websites and their donation pages. It allows you to read up on them, and then support them in their race to defeat those who gave us this terrible bill.
We have to send Washington a message that it’s not acceptable to disregard the will of the people. We have to tell them enough is enough. No more defying the Constitution. No more driving us off a financial cliff. We must repeal and replace Obamacare with patient-centered, results-driven, free market reform that provides solutions to people of all income levels without bankrupting our country.
It’s time to make a stand! Let’s take back the 20!
Most of the districts are in the East, with a large grouping in the Ohio Valley and vicinity. Notably, though, three of the districts are in Arizona, where immigration enforcement (or lack thereof) is also likely to be a big factor. Palin focuses on positive messages for each of her endorsed candidates, choosing not to even mention incumbent Democrats in the districts in the brief blurbs included on the website.
These are smart and relatively safe choices for a start. Having won these districts in 2008, Palin already knows that her presence will help rather than provide a distraction in more volatile districts. Palin will undoubtedly spend the next five weeks traveling, campaigning, and fundraising for more candidates than just these 20, but this allows her to establish a set of candidates and a specific record of success in general elections as well as primaries.
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