The New York Observer Politicker, in an item with the title – The Problem with AGs, quotes Carolyn Ryan, the New York Times Deputy metro editor for government and politics, in comments relating to the Richard Blumenthal controversy, as saying –
http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/problem-ags
"I guess one thing that strikes me–and we're seeing it in races around the country–is attorneys general who run for higher office seem to have a difficult time because they're accustomed to a certain kind of press coverage, which is ‘I'm going after the bad guy, I'm holding a press conference,'" she said. "And when the scrutiny starts to be turned toward them, oftentimes they're caught a little flat-footed."
That’s not the impression I had.
I always thought state attorney generals have a pretty good record in elections.
did a quick review of the present US Senate and state Governors and have found that 6 of the 95 elected Senators were Attorney Generals before being elected to the Senate and that 8 of the 45 Governors were.
That’s 10%, an indication that plenty of AGs running for higher office don't have much of a problem, at all.