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“The phalanx of anonymously financed conservative groups that have played such a crucial role this campaign year is starting a carefully coordinated final push to deliver control of Congress to Republicans, shifting money among some 80 House races they are monitoring day by day,” the AP reports. “Bolstered by a surge in last-minute donations and other financial support, outside liberal groups and unions say they are stepping up their response in advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, but remain largely outgunned by the scale and sophistication of the operation supporting Republican candidates.”
“Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said on ABC’s “This Week” that he expects few changes for the party in the near term. Kaine said Democrats would hold the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) would keep her gavel, and Kaine himself would keep his job,” CQ reports. “Steele had a very different vision of the midterm elections, predicting Republicans would win handily in the House and appearing optimistic that they could take the Senate.”
CALIFORNIA: Politico describes Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman’s closing-argument ad, saying that it “seeks to warm her up, in part by beginning with a remarkable concession: that the millions she's spent to define herself haven't really worked, that voters still see her as a distant billionaire and the election as an ‘unhappy choice.’”
FLORIDA: At a rally in Orlando, Sarah Palin talked glowingly of Marco Rubio as "mavericky" and someone who kind of "started a whole bunch of this stuff," NBC’s Shawna Thomas notes. Both Palin and RNC Chairman Michael Steele also railed against Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), who is currently involved in a tough three-way race with a Republican and a "Tea Party" candidate. Grayson has been accused of helping the third-party candidate in order to split the conservative vote in his district. He's denied these allegations. "Stop your perpetrating,” Steele said warning Grayson. “Stop your faking. Stop your pretending. Mr. Grayson you are no friend of [the] tea party."
ILLINOIS: “The U.S. Senate contest in Illinois could go down to the wire as Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are still running close headed into the campaign's final week, a new ChicagoTribune/WGN poll shows. Kirk held a 44 percent to 41 percent advantage over Giannoulias… Kirk's support among independents increased from 38 percent to 50 percent, the poll showed, while Giannoulias' backing among unaligned voters was relatively stagnant at about 28 percent,” the Tribune writes.
Similarly, a Mason-Dixon poll shows Kirk leading Giannoulias 43%-41%. That same poll has Bill Brady (R) leading 44%-40% over Pat Quinn (D) for the governor’s race. President Obama’s approval in the poll dips to 51% in his home state.
MASSACHUSETTS: A Boston Globe poll has Deval Patrick (D) up 43%-39% over Charles Baker (R) for governor.
It’s a real race in MA-10, a Boston Globe poll finds. District Attorney William R. Keating (D) leads state Rep. Jeffrey D. Perry (R) just 37%-33%. That’s just a huge undecided number. MA-10 is the most conservative in the state with all Democratic members of Congress. President Obama won it with just 55%.
In MA-4, Barney Frank’s district, he leads 46%-33%.
NEVADA: “Outside interest groups have poured nearly $5.2 million into the race between Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican Sharron Angle in recent days, and are expected to spent millions more on advertising before the Nov. 2 election,” the AP reports. “According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the expenditures between Oct. 8 and Oct. 21 bring total outside spending in the race to $13.5 million.”
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Boston Globe: “Charlie Bass and Ann McLane Kuster once were old family friends, children of allied political clans that formed part of New Hampshire’s moderate Republican bedrock. But this year Bass and Kuster are waging partisan war for a prized congressional seat. Defying national trends that favor the GOP, Kuster, now a Democrat, had climbed to a 7-point lead in the most recent poll. The open Second Congressional District race remains volatile, with outside interests pouring money in and a blizzard of negative ads intensifying in the campaign’s closing days.” That poll was a University of New Hampshire poll showing Kuster up 43%-36%, released Oct. 15.
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See, you reallly can buy elections. Gosh, thanks Supreme Court.. This is gonna be swell! Senate seats for Sale! Big Oil can buy Misourri. The Koch Brothers can get Oregon. There's no end. It'll be like a fire sale. If we could tax them we could wipe out the National Debt. Oooops, can't do that Bush gave the rich those tax breaks. Yeah, let's make them permanent! This is working out great.
just like george soros bought obamas election.
You can buy elections ESPECIALLY when Americans have no more memory than they seemingly do. Completely unbelievable!
Title : A businessman is angry at his lost cash bag.
A businessman is drowning in the ocean.
Stimulus : we should rescue him immediately.
Power first : Nope ! How do we pay for it ?, Just let him go under much like Lehman Brothers.
Stimulus : He is dying right now.
Power first : Nope ! You can't save his money bag.
Stimulus ( clock is ticking ) : : We can do everything.
Go under : We are serious about jobs. Where are jobs ?, echoed by the angry businessman.
Equation :
Depression : New Deal = Great Recession : Stimulus Package (Groundwork) + Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law
The Problem = The destructive war & military waste + Stimulus Package
Therefore = Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law - The destructive war & military waste
Criticism = Stimulus Package (Groundwork)
Conclusion = Gambling on Iraq Oil + weapon sell Again + Double-dip Depression
Cure = Slashing the destructive war & military waste + Completion of Energy Independence or A Jobs law
Anger at These :
Gambling on Iraq Oil Again : A Drop in the Bucket Vs. Growing Population & Demand World-wide. The Age of Cheap Oil = A Thing of the Past.
1. At this time, it looks like the oil-friendly country is gambling on Iraq oil again, citing a big government & deficit, and therefore the world-wide stimulus package worth trillions and health care reform in America are now at stake.
2. Of the money by the money for the money is getting a society nowhere near prosperity.
Gambling on party of "no idea" is sure to be much like Throwing an Egg of Economy Against a Rock.
The outcome of government take-over :
1. In banking industry, the result of government take-over is big bonus parties backed by the tax-payer's invaluable cash.
2. In healcare reform, the outcome of government take-over is to dump ill children when needed most.
3. In oil spill, the administration should be held responsible for its deregulation, urging a big government
Chanting deficit :
1. Amid chanting deficit, the same old failed policy.
2. Amid chanting deficit, hands-off approach over huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China from remorseless health care premium.
3. Unfortunately, as a direct consequence of remorseless health care premium, numerous folks have no choice but to hang onto affordable offerings, since one in two households is said to face a hard decision between necessity & drug.
4. Inaction cost in relation to health care reform totals $9trillion over the next decade.
5. Over the next 10 years, total Bush tax cut costs will equal $3.9 trillion, .... the tax cuts would increase deficits by nearly $4 trillion between 2005 and 2014.
The most critical debt : Personal Bankruptcy
1. The current recession came from Personal Bankruptcy largely as a consequence of the relentless health care costs, pain at the pump, and the subsequent subprime mortgage crisis.
Facing huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China, the primary economic policy of previous administration was " spending baby "to the great delight of republicans' sponsors.
2. By comparison, the recovered stock market value alone, around $1.5 trillion, is nearly twice as much as the stimulus package, set aside all the other benefits.
As always, the republicans and unqualified media let folks locked in a box. ruling out the positive effects.
The most promising deficit-cut of government : Slashing the destructive war & military waste
1. Slashing the destructive war & military waste alone supposedly could be enough to balance the budget.
Energy Independence : The Only Way to Desperately-Needed Job Growth
1. My response to the question : where are jobs ?
In the trade deficit, exactly in the severe and persistent oil money spill, taboo of " do not add to the deficit" party.
2. Under the existing Bush tax cut for lavish bonus parties, a sole job plan for the republicans, the country already saw millions of job cuts.
OMG! How long did you work on this diatribe?
Can we get a "zebra" party candidate? I'm sure the Republicans and Democrats shower together at their country clubs. We need to get this country on the right path. To get our debt down, and production up. We do not need any more treaties or "deals". They only cater to the "rich" in both countries or territories. We need to marginally raise taxes or revenues (Democratic staple move) and also cut useless spending or as the families of America would say "tighten our belts" (Republican staple move). If a politician would sincerely agree to do these two things, I would vote for this candidate.
Us real patriots will defend the Constitution from ANY
ENEMY, foreign AND DOMESTIC, (even your black messiah) and we have all the
guns and skills to do it. I know this is a difficult concept you you 'la-la
land' libturds to imagine, but we are taking this country back, and when the
call comes, you better stand behind us or you will find yourself standing in
front of us.
Todd, this patriot is standing in front of you.
GE you better duck or hide!
Not likely!!!! Yard signs, bumper stickers, and canvassing for Democratic candidates here in Grove City make me easily identifiable.
Ummmm...yeah. Now we're afraid of you "real patriots". Let's see - when we went to war all you "real patriots" rushed right out and bought some magnets for your trucks, right? That's what you are, you are magnet patriots. Some of us rushed right out and joined the army. Where we DID swear an oath to protect the constitution from people like you. So bring it on, traitor.
And this "libturd" will be standing with his gun ready to defend the Constitution from facists like you, Todd.
Hey, you OWN the White House. You Own the Senate and the House and you STILL can't sneak communism into the United States. You all are not Americans. You are the 'new' kind.....Americus Amoebas. Spineless. See ya'll November 3rd. I KNOW I'll have a thrill rushing down my leg!
Tomasco, I don't own squat. "They" own Washington. "They" will lose eventually. "They" are in both parties. "They" go to Yale and Harvard. "They" better keep their distance from "us" down south. "They" can "take this bullcrap" shell game and shove it.
To all who are Obama lovers. The change we have seen is not what was expected. He lied, and is trying to make America join in on one world government. If the people of the United States just stand by and allow the democrats to make this happen, no-one will have the freedoms they desire. This includes everyone! Once certain freedom's are taken away, all freedom's will be. Doesn't matter color, sexual preference, religion, rich, poor, etc. How America votes this election will determine the outcome of America. What do you want your children or grandchildren to live with? Freedom's for everyone, or being controlled by the Government and the president you voted for.