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Forecast Predicts Democrats Likely to Hold the Senate

August 29, 2014 Buck Banks

70%

The probability of Democrats retaining control of the upper chamber, according to Sam Wang’s updated Senate forecast. One reason his forecast is more favorable to Democrats than others is that he’s relying more on actual polls than so-called “fundamentals.”

Obama Gets Frustrated by Democrats

August 12, 2014 Buck Banks

There are times where Democrats drive me nuts.

— President Obama, quoted bu the Washington Examiner, at a fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard.

Democrats Still Seen More Favorably than Republicans

May 16, 2014 Buck Banks

44%

Of Americans see the Democratic Party more favorably than the Republican Party (34%), but both parties are “upside down” in net favorability, according to Gallup.

There’s a Campaign to Convince Hillary to Campaign

May 15, 2014 Buck Banks

We think what we’re seeing is an elaborate campaign, directed by Hillary, to lock down the 2016 nomination and solidify her image as a leader. But in reality, this isn’t emanating from Clinton, and it has nothing to do with voters. What we’re really looking at is a campaign orchestrated by nervous Democrats and aimed at persuading Clinton herself.

— Matt Bai, writing for Yahoo News.

Republicans Never Saw This Coming: Sen. Kay Hagan Owns Her Support for Obamacare

May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Trish

You know what’s at stake. Only six wins this fall for Republicans leaves them to rule the Senate. If that happens, House-passed bills outlawing contraception and abortion, promoting guns, and cutting food stamps even for children will be the law of the land. And those 50 votes to defund and rescind Obamacare? Done deal.

That’s why states where Democratic senators seem at risk are drowning in dollars from those who profit if Republicans are in charge. Can you blame the Koch brothers for spending millions through their front group, Americans for Prosperity, on ads to tip these races? They’ll earn back billions if their legislation — like a bill to charge people for using solar panels instead of burning the fossil fuels that are heating our planet but lining the Kochs’ pockets — passes.

Pundits, at first stunned by a Democrat not playing by the GOP rules, are realizing the brilliance of Hagan’s move.

North Carolina, where Sen. Kay Hagan (D) is up for re-election, could be drawing the most outside money.

Voters in North Carolina have already been bombarded with 15,000 television political advertisements thanks to the U.S. Senate race…

The cost of those ads is a whopping $6.3 million, and nearly all of them have been paid for by outside groups, according to an analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Many of the ads criticize Hagan’s vote for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a strategy chosen by Republican consultant Karl Rove and the Kochs after the healthcare.gov website’s rocky launch last October. But the overall success of Obamacare’s first enrollment period leaves fewer one-issue voters who will go to the polls just to get rid of the ACA’s supporters.

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The Math is Not on Our Side in November

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 Trish

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.

Carville Hoping for ‘Political Climate Change’ Before November

March 19, 2014 Buck Banks

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.

Dems Highlight GOP’s ‘Koch’ Addiction in New Campaign

March 6, 2014 Buck Banks

The GOP is addicted to Koch.

— The slogan of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s new digital campaign that will use Internet ads and videos to tie Republican Senate candidates to the policies and actions of the Koch brothers, the New York Times reports.

Deficit Reduction No Longer a Top Policy Priority for Americans

January 27, 2014 Buck Banks

63%

Say reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority for Congress and the president this year, down from 72% a year ago, a new Pew Research poll finds. Most of the decline has come among Democrats: Only about half of Democrats — 49% — view deficit reduction as a top priority, down 18 points since last January.

Campaign Advice for Dems: Don’t Get Tied to Obama

January 21, 2014 Buck Banks

Tag: Democrats

Forecast Predicts Democrats Likely to Hold the Senate

70%

The probability of Democrats retaining control of the upper chamber, according to Sam Wang’s updated Senate forecast. One reason his forecast is more favorable to Democrats than others is that he’s relying more on actual polls than so-called “fundamentals.”

Obama Gets Frustrated by Democrats

There are times where Democrats drive me nuts.

— President Obama, quoted bu the Washington Examiner, at a fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard.

Democrats Still Seen More Favorably than Republicans

44%

Of Americans see the Democratic Party more favorably than the Republican Party (34%), but both parties are “upside down” in net favorability, according to Gallup.

There’s a Campaign to Convince Hillary to Campaign

— Matt Bai, writing for Yahoo News.

Republicans Never Saw This Coming: Sen. Kay Hagan Owns Her Support for Obamacare

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.

Carville Hoping for ‘Political Climate Change’ Before November

— James Carville, in a column in The Hill, on the 2014 midterms.

Dems Highlight GOP’s ‘Koch’ Addiction in New Campaign

The GOP is addicted to Koch.

— The slogan of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s new digital campaign that will use Internet ads and videos to tie Republican Senate candidates to the policies and actions of the Koch brothers, the New York Times reports.

Deficit Reduction No Longer a Top Policy Priority for Americans

63%

Campaign Advice for Dems: Don’t Get Tied to Obama

Remember all politics is local. Talk about local issues, talk about your identification with the district, don’t get tied to the Obama administration.

— Former Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX), quoted by ABC News, giving advice to Democrats running in 2014.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

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