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Democrats Lose Hold on Latinos and Women as Party's Base Drifts
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIn the final stretch of this volatile and polarizing midterm election, while the beleaguered Democrats duck to ward off an approaching Republican steamroller, rippling cracks are widening in two of the most reliable and loyal Democratic voting blocs, women and Latinos. The past several weeks have exposed troubling frustration, anger and apathy among white Democratic female voters and among Latino Democrats. More alarming for Democrats than the "enthusiasm gap" between Democrats and Republicans is emerging evidence that women and Latinos are drifting away from their longtime political home and ...
Why Nancy Pelosi Thinks She Can Hold the House
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyEither Nancy Pelosi really does think her Democrats are going to do much, much better than expected at the polls in a little over a month -- or the House Speaker should have gone to Yale Drama and given La Streep some real competition. Ever since White House press secretary Robert Gibbs first suggested back in July that Democrats could lose the House, Pelosi has often seemed alone in her grasp of the fact that defeatism isn't energizing. Depressed Democrats don't rush the barricades, but stay home with the curtains drawn on Election Day, eating bowls of parsley potatoes and rereading Paul ...
New York's John Hall: A Rocky Reelection Road for a Rock Legend
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyTHIELLS, N.Y. -- John Hall -- once the bare-chested guitarist for the 1970s band Orleans and the only rock musician ever elected to Congress as a Democrat -- was asked whether his entertainment background helped inoculate him from the anti-incumbent frenzy sweeping the nation. "Somewhat," he said, pausing to contemplate my question. "But now that I've been in Congress for three-and-a-half years, some people say that I've gone Washington." Talk about political heresy: a Democrat in a tough reelection race in 2010 actually volunteering that maybe he has changed because of his service in ...
Democrats Have the Money, but GOP Has the Mojo in 2010
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHeading into the midterm elections in November, both major parties have a big advantage over the other. For Republicans, it's passion. For Democrats, it's purse strings. The GOP enjoys an energized base of supporters, evidenced by surging turnout in primary contests and a spanking new, if highly unpredictable, political movement within its ranks in the form of the Tea Party. Democrats have cash, and lots of it, bolstering candidates' hopes that the party can inject enough last-minute money to build a firewall against the GOP's red-hot base voters in November. "Reports of the House ...
Conservatives Enjoy Big 'Enthusiasm' Advantage in This Year's Elections
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyConservatives are far more enthusiastic about voting in these year's congressional elections than either moderates or liberals and the gap gets larger when those who say they are "very conservative" is measured, according to a Gallup poll of registered voters conducted May 1-16. Forty-five percent of conservatives say they are very enthusiastic about voting compared to 22 percent of moderates and 26 percent of liberals. Sixty-two percent who say they are very conservative (10 percent of the sample) are also very enthusiastic compared to 44 percent who say they are very liberal (4 percent of ...
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