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Vulnerable House Democrats run away from their party's record
House Democrats in tough races are running away from their partyslegislative record as they face an electorate that's skeptical of whatthe party has accomplished over the past two years and rates Congressat historic lows. A Gallup tracking Poll from the end of September shows that only 18 percentof voters approve of the job Congress is doing while landmarklegislation like Healthcare Reform and the Stimulus remains unpopular. The abysmal Approval numbers come against the backdrop of...

Will There Be a Republican Congress in 2011?
There has been quite a bit of speculation about the results of the November Midterm Elections, now just a month away. Dick Morris is predicting a Republican landslide, an overturning of control in both houses of Congress with historic gains: Thanks to the leadership of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, the Democratic Party is facing the biggest defeat in Midterm Elections in the past 110 years, perhaps surpassing the modern record of a 74-seat gain set in 1922. They...

Polls Tighten Close to Midterms
The Christian Science Monitor reports: Its just Four weeks (and two Days) until the Midterm Elections. But thats a lifetime (or two) in politics, and its way too early for Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Minority Leader John Boehner to be staking claim to the fanciest digs in the US House of Representatives. According to a race-by-race analysis by The New York Times, Enough contests remain in flux that both parties head into the Final Four weeks of the campaign with the ability to...

Fear Itself: Dem Gov Says His Party Is "Too Scared" &"Too Afraid" to Act on Taxes
The fallout from Washington Democrats decision to skip Town without stopping all the Tax hikes scheduled to take effect January 1 st continued over the weekend when Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) said members of his party were too scared and too afraid to pursue their plan to raise taxes on families and small businesses.  Instead of having the courage of their Job-killing convictions, Democrats skipped Town altogether and left Taxpayers in the lurch.  This New York Times...

Paul Cellucci joins GOP upstart looking to unseat Niki Tsongas
R epublican Congressional hopeful Jon Golnik’s bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas got a boost today as former Bay State Gov. Paul Cellucci has joined the upstart Campaign. Cellucci, a Republican who served four years as Governor before being named ambassador to Canada, will serve as “honorary chairman” of Golnik’s Campaign. Now an attorney in Private Practice, Cellucci lives in Hudson, which is in Tsongas’ 5th Congressional District. “I look forward to...

5 Reasons Why Democrats are the REAL 'Party of No'
Heading toward Novembers Midterm Elections, Republicans are gaining strength as the Party shouting Enough! while Democrats look more like the real Party of No. On April 19, 2009 on ABCs This Week, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel slapped a label on Republicans that stuck when he said, when you're the Party of 'no'; when you're the Party of never; when you're the Party of No new ideas, that's not constructive. But Emanuels invective has boomeranged....

The 'Do-Nothing-Good Congress'
You’ve heard of a “Do-Nothing Congress.” This is more the “Do-Nothing-Good Congress.” Congress usually passes a Budget and appropriations bills before the beginning of every new Fiscal Year on October 1. This Year was different. Congress never passed a Budget.  It didn’t complete any appropriations bills.  It didn’t extend any Tax Cuts.  It didn’t reform entitlement programs or reform the Tax code. Oh, members spent time crippling...

Morris: Obliterating a Generation
Thanks to the leadership of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, the Democratic Party is facing the biggest defeat in Midterm Elections in the past 110 years, perhaps surpassing the modern record of a 74-seat gain set in 1922. They will also lose control of the Senate. Republicans are now leading in 54 Democratic House districts. In 19 more, the Incumbent congressman is under 50 percent and his GOP challenger is within five points. That makes 73 seats where victory is within...

DeMint: Sexually Active Unmarried Women And Gay Teachers Should Be Barred From Classrooms
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says that even though "no one" came to his defense in 2004 after he said that gay people and unwed mothers should be banned from teaching , "everyone" quietly told him that he shouldn't back down from his position. He also implied that not banning gay people and women who have sex before marriage from teaching would be an attack on Christians, and defended his position on banning gay teachers because he holds the same position on women who have sex outside of...

Dem Congressman Running Campaign Ads Comparing Himself With GOP House Leader John Boehner, Touts Voting With Him 80% of the Time...
San Fran Nan must be furious, it’s one thing for House Dems to distance themselves from her, but aligning with her GOP counterpart is an unforgivable sin… (The Hill) - In perhaps the most striking example of a vulnerable Democrat racing away from the national party as the Midterm Elections near, Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) is running a TV ad that features side-by-side photos of him and Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio). The spot touts that he “votes 80 percent with the...

There are three important lessons that progressives and Democrats need to learn from the One Nation rally this past Saturday - and whether the rally was as big as Glen Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally is not one of them.
Ever since the Tea Party rallies and demonstrations began in April 2009, articles in The Democratic Strategist have repeatedly noted that the wildly inflated crowd estimates the organizers promoted were a two-edged sword. On the One hand they certainly cheered up the participants in the events and gave conservative publications a useful Propaganda tool. But, at the same time, they also produced among the Tea Party Activists a profoundly distorted notion of themselves as genuinely representing...

White House: Dems gaining ground on GOP in voter enthusiasm
Over the past few weeks, Democrats have made steady progress in narrowing the voters enthusiasm gap with Republicans, the White House claimed Sunday. This past week, President Obama attended a 26,000 person rally in Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin, and a rally for young Democratic Activists in Washington, D.C. at which Hip-Hop artist B.o.B performed. Both events were designed to motivate young, first-time voters who helped propel President Obama and congressional...

Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much
Related Articles The good news for President Obama is his popular support among blacks is holding steady at 91%. The bad news is no other group of potential voters likes him that much. In fact, 29 days before his first Midterm Elections, the Democrat’s Approval Ratings remain mired below 50%. A new Gallup Poll this morning finds his Approval Rating for September was 45%, almost the same as August’s 44%. Obama’s not exceeded the crucial 50% level in a single month so far this...

Debate roundup: What others are saying
The Courier-Journal's Joe Gerth: Paul tried to sidestep a question about whether he would continue funding for Operation Unite, a Drug Task Force in Eastern Kentucky that was created with the help of U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers, a Republican, to deal with Prescription Drug Abuse. “There’s always a debate over how much is federal, how much is state,” he said. “Like most problems, I think the more local control is better.” When Wallace pressed him...

Dems Still In It, Because the Alternative Is Frightening
… there is not a lot of evidence that Democrats are especially disengaged, and their turnout may be fairly average for a Midterm year instead, Republican Voters seem unusually motivated, and that is what is motivating their strength in the polling. - Nate Silver The One Nation Rally and the latest Newsweek Poll, coming after the NBC/WSJ Poll , offers more hope for Democrats, even as the underlying challenge stays the same. The Midterms has been all about the Tea Party up...

Walz Tows the Pelosi Line
Randy Demmer’s op-ed highlights the fact that Tim Walz is voting Speaker Pelosi’s line on taxes. In fact, Walz voted to not even take up the issue of the Bush Tax Cuts: When Congress returned to Washington last week for one more round of votes before the preelection sprint, hardworking families and small businesses had high hopes that their representatives would take action to renew these Tax Cuts. Sadly, they did not. When a Bipartisan push was made to keep the House in session,...

Obama's promise to end tax cuts for rich unravels
Nobody in Washington has put it quite so bluntly. But it seems almost certain now that Barack Obama will be unable to fulfil his pledge of reversing George W. Bushs Tax Cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Last week, Democratic lawmakers returned home to prepare for next months Midterm Elections having failed in either chamber even to put the issue to a vote. In spite of the fact that President Obama made reversing the Tax Cuts a central pledge of his Election campaign along with...

Liberals Condemn Fox's Donation to RGA
The New York Times reports: Rupert Murdoch s News Corporation is playing a larger and more directly partisan role in this years Elections than it is known to have played in any previous American Campaign. The News late Thursday that the company, whose holdings include the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, had given $1 million to a business coalition that is advertising heavily against Democrats came roughly two months after election filings showed...

GOP to Obama: START treaty still far from votes needed for ratification
Senate Republicans are warning the Obama Administration that it still has work to do to ensure a successful ratification vote on the START Treaty in a Lame-duck session after the November Elections. GOP senators left the capital on Wednesday and Thursday repeatedly stating that the 14-4 Bipartisan vote by the Foreign Relations Committee this month was no guarantee that the full Senate will follow suit. Democratic leaders are eyeing a floor vote on the Treaty sometime after Nov. 15, when the...

What Was Before Is Again
This was originally posted on our sister site, RedState.com The New York Times ran an article over the weekend that the House of Representatives is still not in the hands of the GOP.  A Newsweek survey came out with an oddity of a Generic Ballot answer.  Gallup has been jumping all over the place. Had I a show, I'd say "roll the tape."  Instead, you'll have to settle for this. Here's Charlie Cook's review of the October Generic Ballot data trickling out: In Polls by the...

Americans Sour on Trade
By SARA MURRAY And DOUGLAS BELKIN The American public, already skeptical of Free Trade, is becoming increasingly hostile to it. The American public, already skeptical of the globalization of Trade and its effect on Jobs, is becoming increasingly hostile to it, and vote-hungry politicians are responding accordingly as November approaches. Sara Murray discusses. Also, Paulo Prada discusses what the likely ascendancy of Dilma Rousseff to Brazil's presidency will mean for Latin America's...

Nevada GOP Senate Nominee Trashes Party On Tape
In a secretly taped recording, Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle badmouths the GOP establishment and wheedles a minor-party Candidate to support her campaign, offering help opening doors in Washington if she's elected. The roughly made recording offers an unvarnished look into back-room politics, with Tea Party favorite Angle alternately nudging and cajoling Candidate Scott Ashjian, whose support could be crucial in her bid to oust Majority Leader Harry Reid. "I'm not sure you can win...

GOP "wave" narrative falters. Newsweek: Angry voters? Not so much. NYT: Reps Uncertain. More.
NBC: Battle for Congress tightens. PPP: Why things could get better for Dems [Undecideds] Don't break out the champaign just yet, but the past week has seen a definite shift in the polling narrative for the mid-term Elections.  Instead of a steady drum-beat of GOP wave Election triumphalism, we're now hearing about how individual Dems are proving resilient, how the enthusiasm gap is closing, how the GOP doesn't have things locked up, how the GOP may fall short, and how Dems may be...

Monica Crowley Smacks Down Eleanor Clift Over GOP Being 'Extreme'
Conservative commentator Monica Crowley and Newsweek's Eleanor Clift got into another heated debate on PBS's "McLaughlin Group" this weekend. This time, the perilously liberal Clift claimed policy proposals set forth in the Republican "Pledge to America" were "extreme." "They should have just stood aside and let [the upcoming Elections] be a Referendum on the Democrats," claimed Clift. "This election is a Referendum on progressivism," countered...

Brit Hume Battles Juan Williams Over Congress Adjourning Before Tax Cut Vote
Brit Hume on Sunday took Juan Williams to task over the Democrats adjourning Congress without voting on extending some or all of the Bush Tax Cuts. As host Chris Wallace moved the panel segment of "Fox News Sunday" to last week's decision by legislators to head home to their states and/or districts in preparation for the upcoming Elections, he asked Williams for his opinion. Williams said that he had spoken with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) on Friday, and she told him she had the...