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Campaign 2010: Is Obama Out of Time?
By David Corn - Politics DailyFive weeks. Thirty-five days. Eight hundred and 40 hours. Fifty thousand 400 hundred minutes. Or 3,024,000 seconds. That's how much time is left between now (that is, this Tuesday morning) and the 2010 midterm elections. Is that sufficient time for President Obama to do anything -- and I do mean anything -- to change the political landscape before Nov. 2? Weeks ago, as the final stretch began, Democrats in Washington were beginning to grouse that Obama was not revving up the base -- let alone winning back alienated (or disappointed or angry) independent voters. It didn't even look as if he ...
2010 Elections: Big Potential for Republican Governor, Redistricting Wins
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyIt is a recurrent conceit of Democrats and Republicans alike that a great political realignment that will produce a lasting majority lurks just around the corner. In the more than two decades since Ronald Reagan left the White House, the U.S. electorate has been divided roughly equally. But when President George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, his strategist Karl Rove interpreted the outcome as a harbinger of long-term Republican control. Rove wasn't alone in this view. With the GOP holding the White House and Congress and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, some Democrats feared ...
Sluggish Economy May Be Bad News for Democrats
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 30) -- New government data showing the economic recovery moving at a snail's pace may have been the last thing congressional Democrats wanted to take with them as they rush home to campaign during the summer recess. The U.S. Commerce Department reported today that second-quarter economic growth slowed to 2.4 percent. The report indicated that consumers are keeping a tight grip on their money even as business investment showed encouraging signs of life. White House economic adviser Christina Romer said in a statement that the "solid rate of growth indicates that the process ...
Campaign 2010: Why Democrats Think They Can Hold the House
By David Corn - Politics DailyEvery time I run into Charlie Cook, one of the veteran political handicappers of Washington, I say to him, "So?" He knows what I'm asking: Will the Republicans win back the House in November? For months now, he has told me -- and plenty of others -- that the House is within the grasp of the GOP, which needs to pick up 39 seats to take control. As the savvy and nonpartisan Cook has explained, when he and the number-crunchers in his shop examine the House races one by one, they have spotted 30 or so contests where the Democrats are likely to lose the seat. These calculations, Cook has said, do ...
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