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...Kean, Jr., the son of former Republican Governor and 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Tom Kean, is expected to grab the GOP nomination for governor. In Alabama, the son of the late Gov. George C. Wallace will probably win the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. And in Iowa, the leading Democrat in the state's gubernatorial primary is Secretary of State Chet Culver, son of the state's longtime senator Dick Culver. If he wins, Culver would face Republican Congressman Jim Nussle in the fall. The winner of that race could play an important role in the next Presidential election...
...think the chances are excellent," said Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro. The No. 2 Democrat in House, Whip Steny Hoyer, says some members of the GOP have already been coming up to him and saying they only wish he was in line to become Speaker rather than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who disagrees with Republicans on even more issues than Hoyer. In a meeting with a handful of lawmakers and the Australian Prime Minister, California Republican David Drier, one of the closest allies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, accidentally referred to "Speaker Pelosi," leading to chuckles from both Hastert...
...Rahm Emanuel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has been calling friends in recent weeks and saying things like "I'm worried. I think expectations are too high." Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, a Florida Democrat who is working closely with Emanuel on the election effort, said she tries to keep her enthusiasm to herself. "The hope, I jam it in a little compartment in my heart," she said. "I take it out every once in a while and then I jam it back in and I get back to work...
...course, this message isn't always getting through. Some Democrats are already campaigning for positions they would take if Democrats control Congress. James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is number three in the leadership as conference chairman, has started asking colleagues to support him in a campaign to be the whip in a Democrat congress, a job Emanuel would be a very strong contender for if Democrats won the House...
...Early last month, Pelosi told colleagues she would not support any effort to impeach President Bush. At the same time, John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat who has been the most enthusiastic supporter of that idea, took down a reference to impeachment from his website. Democratic strategists have advised the party to use the term "oversight," suggesting they will be a check on the GOP, rather than the more ominous "hearings...