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New Midterm Campaign Strategy: Blame China!
New Midterm Campaign Strategy: Blame China!
elections 2010
Oct 10, 2010 5:18 PM CDT

New Midterm Campaign Strategy: Blame China!

Candidates on both sides accuse each other of letting jobs go overseas

(Newser) - As midterm election battles are waged, a new campaign strategy is emerging: Blame the lack of jobs in the US on … China! Or, in a few cases, India or Mexico. Over the past week or so, at least 29 candidates from both sides of the fence have run ads...

Tea Party Enthusiasm Is Trouble for Democrats
 Tea Party Enthusiasm 
 Is Trouble for Democrats 
midterm polls
Oct 9, 2010 4:24 PM CDT

Tea Party Enthusiasm Is Trouble for Democrats

They're far more enthused about voting in November

(Newser) - The so-called enthusiasm gap remains a problem for Democrats a month away from the November election. A series of polls by the Washington Post produces results with a familiar ring: Democrats are lukewarm about voting, Republicans are fairly enthused, and Tea Partiers cannot wait to get to the polls. They're...

Hispanic Voters May Sit Out Midterms

They favor Democrats but aren't eager to vote this year

(Newser) - A new poll of Hispanic voters brings a serious dose of good news/bad news for Democrats. The good: Latino voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats over Republicans, 65% to 22%. The bad: It doesn't matter because they probably won't vote. Only 51% or registered Hispanics tell the Pew Hispanic Center that they...

Poll: Democrats Gain on GOP
 Poll: Democrats 
 Gain on GOP
Oct 5, 2010 8:34 AM CDT

Poll: Democrats Gain on GOP

But they're still way behind

(Newser) - After taking a pounding in the polls for months, Democrats are gaining ground ahead of the 2010 election. Over the last month, they’ve cut the GOP lead in half on the question of which party’s candidates voters support, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll , and Democratic...

Midterms Set to Be History's Most Expensive Elections

Spending on course to top $5B, totally dwarfing the 2008 presidential election

(Newser) - This year's midterm elections are on course to become the most expensive in American history. Experts predict that campaign spending will top $5 billion by the time voters go to the polls, dwarfing the $1 billion spent on the 2008 presidential campaign and the $2.8 billion spent on 2006's...

5 Things Democrats Must Do
 5 Things Democrats Must Do 
Michael Moore
Oct 1, 2010 4:19 PM CDT

5 Things Democrats Must Do

Michael Moore: It's not too late to stop midterm disaster

(Newser) - Michael Moore lays out 5 things in the Daily Beast that Democrats can do between now and November 2 to help their prospects in the midterms:
  • Lay the blame: They need "wall-to-wall" ads, videos, and whatever else works to tell Americans that Republicans and George W. Bush got us
...

Move Over PACs, Here Come Super PACs

New weapon allows virtually unlimited spending on campaigns

(Newser) - Expect to hear the term "Super PAC" a lot between now and the midterms. As the Washington Post explains today, these fundraising committees are quickly becoming the norm in how modern campaigns are financed by interest groups. Thanks in part to the Citizens United court ruling, Super PACs are...

Longshot Murkowski a Write-In With an Actual Shot

Meet the Senate's new 'maverick' candidate

(Newser) - If history is any indication, Lisa Murkowski has a snowball's chance in hell of keeping her seat: The only write-in candidate ever elected to the US Senate was Strom Thurmond, in 1954. Which makes it fairly remarkable that plenty of people—from analysts to Alaska Republicans—think she could pull...

Democrats Are in 'Meltdown'
 Democrats Are in 'Meltdown' 
William Kristol
Sep 25, 2010 12:40 PM CDT

Democrats Are in 'Meltdown'

William Kristol: And the Republicans for once aren't 'blowing it'

(Newser) - William Kristol can barely contain his glee with his declaration in the new Weekly Standard that the "Democrat party is in meltdown." They're afraid to vote on the Bush tax cuts before the midterms, he writes, and just look at all those senior staffers in the White House...

Obama Calls GOP Pledge 'Worn-Out Philosophy'

He again singles out John Boehner

(Newser) - President Obama called out his new favorite target by name today in belittling the Republicans' Pledge to America , reports Politico . Obama singled out House Minority leader John Boehner in complaining that Republicans put forth "the very same policies that led to the economic crisis in the first place, which...

California Rep: 'The Vietnamese' Want Me Out

Democrat Loretta Sanchez accuses opponent of being 'anti-Hispanic'

(Newser) - A Democratic congresswoman from California is taking heat today after telling Univision “the Vietnamese” are after her seat. “The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for the community,” Loretta Sanchez said in the...

Public Hates Democrats, Hates GOP Even More
Public Hates Democrats, Hates GOP Even More
Poll Numbers
Sep 24, 2010 10:05 AM CDT

Public Hates Democrats, Hates GOP Even More

But Republican backers are more likely to vote

(Newser) - It's good news/bad news time, Democrats. Bad news: The public doesn’t much like you. In fact, a whopping 60% disapprove of the job you’re doing in the latest AP poll. Good news: They dislike Republicans even more; 68% disapprove of them, and Sarah Palin and George W. Bush...

Senate Democrats Postpone Fight Over Tax Cuts

No vote until after the November election

(Newser) - Senate Democrats have decided to delay a vote on the volatile issue of the Bush tax cuts until after the November election, the Washington Post reports. The move avoids a pre-election showdown in the chamber between Republicans, who want to extend all the expiring cuts, and Democrats, who want to...

Clinton to Obama: Fight Back!
 Clinton to Obama: Fight Back! 
Sep 23, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

Clinton to Obama: Fight Back!

Forty-two thinks 44 is letting the Republicans knock him around

(Newser) - Bill Clinton thinks Barack Obama and the Democrats need to more forcefully refute Republican attacks if they want to avoid a midterm meltdown. “He’s being criticized for being too disengaged, for not caring,” Clinton told Politico yesterday. “So he needs to turn into it.” Referring...

What GOP Will Do With a House Majority

Republicans will cut off cash to key Dem initiatives

(Newser) - If Republicans win the House in November, they’ll highlight their differences with Democrats by starving signature policies—like health care—of cash, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although the GOP hopes to repeal the health care bill in the House, such a measure would likely fail in the Senate,...

Obama Advisers Consider Ad Blitz Against Tea Party

National campaign would portray Republicans as radicals

(Newser) - All these Tea Party victories have given Democratic strategists an idea for a national ad campaign with a simple theme: Don't let Republicans take control, because these people are nuts. President Obama's advisers are considering just such an ad blitz, reports the New York Times . The idea is to scare...

Jim DeMint: Let's Have an 'Earthquake Election'

He says Christine O'Donnell, others send Washington a clear message

(Newser) - Jim DeMint takes delight in the triumph of Christine O'Donnell and other conservatives in the primaries, declaring it a sign that the message of "everyday Americans" fed up with big government is getting through. It also refutes the notion that voters must play it safe by sticking with so-called...

DC Mayor Loses Democratic Primary...
DC Mayor Loses Democratic Primary...
Sep 17, 2010 12:17 PM CDT

DC Mayor Loses Democratic Primary...

...but wins as Republican write-in candidate

(Newser) - Washington DC’s mayor, Adrian Fenty , lost his bid for a second term … as a Democrat. However, if he’s interested in running as a Republican, he did manage to win that race. There was no declared Republican candidate, so 822 Republicans wrote Fenty in on their ballots Tuesday....

In Tea Party, 'We Are Seeing Something Big'
In Tea Party, 'We Are Seeing Something Big'
Peggy Noonan
Sep 17, 2010 11:38 AM CDT

In Tea Party, 'We Are Seeing Something Big'

Peggy Noonan: This movement is real, for better or worse

(Newser) - Peggy Noonan isn't quite sure whether the Tea Party movement will ultimately help or hurt the country, but this much is clear: "We are seeing something big," she writes at the Wall Street Journal . (The column is headlined "Why It's Time for the Tea Party.")...

Democrats Hammer GOP on Wall Street Ties

Pat Toomey's taking especially heavy fire

(Newser) - As the midterms heat up, expect to hear the words “Wall Street” a lot. Democrats are hammering Republicans on their ties to Wall Street, no matter how tangential, and on their party’s opposition to financial reform legislation, the LA Times reports. Republicans, meanwhile, speak angrily about bailouts and...

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