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...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...
...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...
...Richard Pombo, a Republican from Northern California, was attending a Houston fund raiser organized by energy lobbyists while gas prices continued to shoot up, the committee quickly alerted local reporters, leading to headlines like ENERGY LOBBYISTS FUEL POMBO in the San Francisco Chronicle. Many of these ideas come from Emanuel, who emerges from a predawn swim at his YMCA in Washington each morning and soon starts barking out orders to his aides...
...need an alarm clock anymore," says David Axelrod, a Chicago political strategist who consults for the House campaign. Emanuel sends cheesecakes from the famed Chicago bakery Eli's to show his appreciation to donors and recruits. But last year he cut off use of the phone lines at the DCCC for House Democrats who fail to pay their dues to the campaign committee, which can run from around $100,000 to $600,000 depending on seniority. The DCCC is one of the few physical places those politicians can use to raise cash during work hours, as they are barred from...
Shuler, the quarterback who had never run for office, hears from Emanuel as often as once a week. "So how much money have you raised today?" Emanuel asks, often barely greeting Shuler before getting to the question. "We don't need pronouns, adjectives or verbs," says Emanuel. "They know why we're calling...