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Subscribe to RSSUSA Today: “The battle for control of the Senate focused on a handful of tossup races Tuesday, even as the fight for the House expanded into more Democratic districts.”
Hotline adds, “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making a last ditch effort to survive a GOP wave by blanketing the airwaves in more than 60 districts in the final week of the campaign. According to FEC filings late Tuesday, the DCCC purchased $21.6 million worth of air time in 66 districts. The ad buys represent the breadth of the GOP 's momentum. Among those 66 districts, many were once considered safe Democratic seats, including those held by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). Only three of the seats in which Democrats are advertising are held by Republicans.”
Based on its latest round of district polls, The Hill has this headline: "Midterm blowout: 50 or more Dem seats set to fall in the election." From its story: "Of the 42 districts polled for The Hill, all but two of which are currently Democratic, 31 had Republicans in the lead. Democrats were up in just seven, and four were tied. In addition, there are some 15 Democratic districts that are so far into the GOP win column that they weren’t polled. That would suggest at least 46 GOP pickups, plus whatever the party gets out of another 40 or 50 seats that some experts believe are in play."
And it finds: "Longtime Democratic incumbents are a seriously endangered species. ... Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.) is down 10 percentage points, while Reps. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) and Chet Edwards (D-Texas) are each losing by 12. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), who is serving his 13th term, is trailing by five."
Despite the GOP’s outside-group advantage, the New York Times reminds us that Democratic candidates have the spending edge over their GOP counterparts. “Even with a recent surge in fund-raising for Republican candidates, Democratic candidates have outraised their opponents over all by more than 30 percent in the 109 House races The New York Times has identified as in play. And Democratic candidates have significantly outspent their Republican counterparts over the last few months in those contests, $119 million to $79 million.”
ALASKA: "Alaska GOP Senate hopeful Joe Miller was suspended for three days and referred to an employee assistance program after admitting to improperly using three government computers, then cleaning the caches to cover up the activities, according to personnel records released Tuesday under court order. The personnel records were obtained by The Associated Press, the Alaska Dispatch, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Anchorage Daily News, under open records requests and a subsequent lawsuit. Miller had until Tuesday afternoon to appeal the release, but chose not to."
"The Alaska Division of Elections has come under fire for providing a list of certified write-in candidates to voters at polling places, an unprecedented move that critics suggest was done to aid Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is running as a write-in," Roll Call reports. "The state Republican and Democratic parties have joined to sue the Division of Elections to force the agency to stop providing the list, the Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday."
CONNECTICUT: The AP looks at state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's wealth. His wife's family is part owner of the Empire State Building. Their fortune is estimated to be between $55.3 million and $107 million. (Blumenthal's opponent, Linda McMahon has already spent more than $40 million of her own money on the Senate bid and has vowed to give $50 million.
KENTUCKY: Is that an apology? Rand Paul supporter Tim Profitt, who stomped on the neck and head of a MoveOn.org supporter said of his actions: “I’m sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand’s safety,” Profitt told the AP. And, per Roll Call: "He said the video made the confrontation appear worse than it was." The man has been banned from future Paul events.
NEVADA: Angle's using decoys now? "Sharron Angle used a decoy to dupe a pack of reporters who were waiting for the Senate candidate outside a campaign event in Nevada on Monday," The New York Daily News writes. "As Angle wrapped up a closed-to-the-press appearance at the Microsoft Licensing office in Reno, a campaign staffer in a car near a group of assembled reporters was overheard saying loudly into a phone, 'She’s ready? She’s coming out now?' the Las Vegas Sun reported. Two women then got into the car while Angle apparently slipped away through another exit, avoiding the reporters, The Sun reported."
WEST VIRGINIA: The Boston Globe sums it up: "Governor Joe Manchin is running what seems to be a classic Republican campaign for the US Senate in West Virginia."
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I clicked on the wrong lead and got Chuck Todd. What a BS Artist and it's all left. NBC needs to lose this guy and others. Let's hope the broom keeps sweeping.....................
Vote Republican folks and let’s get our finances straight. They are fiscally responsible.
So remember folks….Vote
Fiscally responsible? Not historically:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
Let's see, it was the Republican party which ended slavery; it was the Republicans who helped push through civil rights when many Democrats fought to stop it; it is Republicans who favor economics which empower individuals while Democrats pursue economic policies which traps individuals and families in cycles of poverty and despair and has virtually destroyed the Black family. So, which party enslaves?
David 1391708,
Those Republicans are long gone and the racist bigots that replaced them were welcomed with open arms to the Republicans Party of the South. The Democrats lost the southern racist bigots to the Republicans right after civil rights because the Democrats were not for sale like the Republicans. I think everyone knows this bit of history on this blog. The fact that you post this trash and think no one really knows the history sais a lot about what you think of your constituency. I think you should stick to Faux News outlets because the naive hang out there.
It is the red, republican, states that take more from the federal government than the give and the blue, democratic, states that support your refusal to collect enough in taxes to support yourselves. Again, a fact most people on this blog know so again I urge you to stick to the Faux News outlets were the naive hang out.
There should be no doubt by anyone that currently there are deceptive concerted efforts to manipulate people’s thinking and to sway the pubic’s voting. We saw it at work in 2000 and in 2004 with the aggressive attacks on McCain, Gore and Kerry and with the creative cultivation of the Christian block, all of which had a significant impact on those elections. Now, with the recent ruling by the supreme court allowing unlimited funds to be channelled through shadow organizations and into politics the flood gates have been literally opened ... with the result being that there are now substantial focused efforts to saturate and control the public’s minds, paid for by these unlimited funds. Karl Rove, the ‘fat cats’ and ‘big money’ have been identified as pouring in extremely large amounts, with estimates of individual donations over $1m and totals exceeding $250M, to support Republican and Tea Party candidates. Their intent to use their wealth, positions and power to effect outcomes and to control results in order to insure they again get what they want, is obvious and totally scary.
We saw the results and suffered the consequences in 2000 and 2004, this time around would be even worse. Whether poor, middle-class or upper middle-class they offer only subterfuge and aggressive, deceptive manipulation with the intent to gain results that greatly benefit only them. When remembering the Bush-Cheney years and recognizing the current Republican focus it should be easy to identify the ‘puppet’ performances that those ‘pulling the strings’ demand and the costs and apathy that fall to the majority. Their manipulative, self-serving efforts alone should be insulting enough but what should really anger everyone is to understand that what they want is to return to ‘more of the same’ that cost us so much and then, if they get away with it, they will be emboldened and be even more aggressive. The costs of allowing them to have what they want is far greater than having to accept and pressure the Democrats to do better; we have actually seen that when with the economy always being better under the Democrats and with everyone, including all of the middle-class, losing as only the few continually gain under the Republicans. What is needed now is for the voters to ignore all that is said, rejecting all efforts to deceive and manipulate, and to vote rationally and objectively denying them control. Special Interests and the very wealthy few are trying to buy a government again for their own purposes. When we see the saturation of advertisements favoring their ‘puppets’ we need to become very cynical. We need to literally close our ears to the resounding noise aimed to confuse, deceive, control and manipulate and just have them waste their money on deaf ears.
This is where republican voters are totally wrong. The candidates they chose in their primary may be conservative, but they are not fiscally conservative. What the baggers have chosen are a bunch of SOCIALLY conservative crazies. The candidates are concerned about gay marriage, womens right to choose, and nothing else. These people have no plans at all regarding the economy, creating jobs, or anything else. They are all funnded by big corporation CEOs who care for nothing more than profits for themselves.
You republican tea baggers are in for the biggest shock of your lives.
Wake up America!!! Karl Rove was the Bush/Chaney front man. He has more hocus-pocus in him than a sorcerer, and he's running the national campaign..Think..Don't let the future mimic the past.