Tag: Campaign 2014
Senate Campaigns Dominated by Ads from Outside Groups
59%
Of the television ads in Senate campaigns this year were paid for by outside groups, a Wesleyan Media Project analysis found. Key finding: 67% of ads favoring Republican Senate candidates were aired by outside groups, compared to 49% of the ads favoring Democratic Senate candidates.
Young Voters Not Interested in Midterm Elections
24%
Of Americans under the age of 30 say that they will “definitely be voting,”in the upcoming midterm elections, a sharp decrease of 10 percentage points since last fall, a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll finds.
Dems Edge GOP in Generic Congressional Ballot
48% to 42%
Margin by which Democrats have staked out a lead over Republicans in the generic Congressional ballot, a new McClatchy-Marist poll finds. However, just 45% approve of President Obama’s job performance, while 52% disapprove.
Cook Predicts Tough Senate Races Through 2018
By a quirk of fate, we may be in for some pretty turbulent Senate elections, not only this November but in 2016 and 2018 as well. Majority status could resemble a rubber band as much as anything else. It is entirely plausible that the Senate will tip back into GOP hands in 2014, return to Democrats in 2016, and then flip again to Republicans in 2018. It’s all about how many — and which — seats on each side are up and exposed to losses, not to mention whether it is a presidential or midterm election.
— Charlie Cook, writing in National Journal.
The Math is Not on Our Side in November
81%
Republicans who say they will definitely vote in the mid-term elections in November, according to a CBS News poll. Only 68% of Democrats in the survey said the same.
Bevin Offers McConnell a Chance to ‘Retire with Dignity’
There’s no one, myself included, who could go to Washington for 20-30-40 years and not change. It’s cathartic, good, refreshing for there to be turnover. You’ve gotta be careful of staying anywhere too long. It’s best to retire with dignity. I’m offering Mitch McConnell the chance to do so.
— Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Matt Bevin (R), quoted by Time.
Carville Hoping for ‘Political Climate Change’ Before November
If the election were held in the current climate, it wouldn’t be hard to argue that the Democrats might have a bad, perhaps even awful, election ahead of them. However, the one thing we know is that it is not going to be held now — it is going to be held in November. This is a case where we don’t know if there is going to be a political climate change or not. Suffice to say, I am pulling for some political climate change.
— James Carville, in a column in The Hill, on the 2014 midterms.
What Say, Lindsay?
Sometimes politicians seem to know not what they say.
His opponent has put Lindsay Graham’s sexuality in play.
Candidate Dave Feliciano
Would like us all to know
That incumbent Senator Graham is definitively “ambiguously gay.”
