Word: gop
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...suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
That a loss of four seats is now considered the GOP's best-case scenario tells you how dramatically the party's fortunes have changed. But the real question is whether Democrats can pick up the nine seats they need to grab a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. At this point, the answer still seems to be probably not. But such able handicappers as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report now think the Democrats could gain as many as eight seats, which would mean they would need no more than a single GOP vote...
...draws the press to the late front runner. If John McCain knows how to stop the cycle, he hasn't revealed it. Once upon a time, Obama reneged on a promise to limit public campaign-financing for the general election, anticipating greater resources against McCain. It briefly appeared that GOP fund-raising had leveled the playing field. But it's been a happy ending for Obama: in some places, his campaign is outspending McCain's by more than 8 to 1 on TV ads. First McCain undermined his "ready from day one" message by selecting Sarah Palin as his running...
...better to be lucky than good in politics, it's best to be both. The Dems are still taking advantage of the favorable environment--which, along with a cascade of GOP errors, is masking any mistakes Team Obama might be making...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...