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Joe Wilson has a race on his hands now
by Mark Silva
Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican congressman from South Carolina who called President Barack Obama a liar in publicand later apologized to the White Houseprivatelyis turning to his supporters for backing as a Democratic rival attempts to make hay.
"I let my emotions get the best of me,'' Wilson says in a Website video soliciting campaign contributions. "It was wrong, and I apologized to the president shortly afterward, and he acknowledged my sincerity.''
Suddenly, Wilson may have a race on his hands.
His Democratic rival back home, Marine veteran Rob Miller, has been raking in his own campaign contributions online since Wilson yelled out, "You lie,'' at Obama during the president's address to a joint session of Congress. The president was maintaining that illegal immigrants will not benefit from the health-care reform that he is seeking. Opponents insist that he cannot guarantee that.
Wilson and Miller are virtually tied in a new survey run by Public Policy Polling44-43in the aftermath of the shout-out. Nearly two-thirds of voters in Wilson's district say they disapproved of Wilson's action.
"In a matter of seconds Joe Wilson turned himself from a safe incumbent into one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country for 2010," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling.
"I will not be muzzled'' on the health-care bill, however, the Republican says. "I will speak up and speak loudly.''
In his fundraising pitch, Wilson insists that he needs help to fight "government-run health care.''
"Health care is a matter of life and death for so many,'' the congressman says. "I choose life.''
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