Congratulations to WRS clients Joe Heck in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional district and Steve Womack in Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional district for their victories last night. 

Dr. Joe Heck cruised in the NV-3, garnering 70% of the Republican primary vote.  He will face first term Congresswoman Dina Titus, in what will be one of the closest watching Congressional races in the country this cycle. 

A WRS poll taken March 24th - 25th had Heck topping Titus 40%-35% in a survey of 400 likely 2010 general election voters.  The race has been rated a TOSS UP by political prognosticators and Dr. Heck boasts a very compelling narrative compared to Titus, who has been a pawn of the current Democrat leadership.

After taking first place in the Arkansas primary on May 18th, Steve Womack won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional district in yesterday’s runoff election by a 52% - 48% margin.  The Cook Partisan Voting Index for Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional district is R+16 and Womack faces nominal opposition from the Democrats.  Steve Womack will be the next Congressman from AR-3, replacing US Senate Candidate John Boozman.

In case you missed it, after spending over a million dollars on a month’s television advertising in Nevada (a massive buy, there), Harry Reid actually lost ground in his re-election battle.  During this time Republican Danny Tarkanian actually gained a point to lead Reid 48%-42% among registered voters in the latest Mason-Dixon survey commissioned by the Las Vegas Review Journal.  Among likely voters, well, you can imagine…

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/most-important-number/the-most-important-number-in-p-73.html?wprss=thefix

The die is being cast in the U.S. Senate race in Nevada.  Danny Tarkanian got a boost from a Human Events piece touting his conservative bona fides and asking, “Is it Tarkanian Time in Nevada?”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34071

And meanwhile, you can get a live glimpse of the CA GOP gubernatorial primary here at 7pm Pacific, where co-front runner Tom Campbell and Insurance Commish Steve Poizner go head to head.  Whitman, having endured a tough month, skipped this one.

http://www.brandman.edu/cadebate/