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Missouri's GOP Lament, 11:30 p.m. E.T. Missouri's foremost Republican statesman, former Senator John Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
Despite the shift that seemed to be taking place in the state, the GOP was optimistic about New Hampshire for 2008 after John McCain captured the party's nomination. The state has been good to the Arizona senator, who blew out Bush in the 2000 primary by 18 points, and revived his campaign by winning this year's contest by 5 points over Mitt Romney. New Hampshire voters tend to be fiscally conservative-the state is home to the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit non-profit-but fairly progressive on social issues. From that perspective, McCain seemed like a welcome...
...presidential election, New Hampshire became the only state that had voted for Bush in 2000 to flip into the Democratic column. The backlash continued in 2006, with more dramatic results. Riding a tide of anti-war opinion, two Democratic challengers upset both of the state's GOP congressmen. Popular Governor John Lynch held onto his seat with 76% of the vote, and Democrats took control of both the state House and Senate, putting the party in charge of both the executive and legislative branches for the first time since the 19th century...
...their downtown offices in Phoenix are any clue, Democrats are certainly outworking their GOP counterparts. I visited the Democratic headquarters Sunday evening and found four dozen or so volunteers busily making calls inside; a few were even outside on their cell phones for lack of space. The Republican headquarters, by contrast, was empty and locked...
Though it has aired no advertising in Arizona, the GOP is clearly nervous. A round of robocalls was launched last week, falsely calling Obama a terrorist and deceptively warning targeted seniors that, if elected, he'd halt their Medicare and Social Security payments. McCain, who is holding his victory rally in Phoenix, is expected to return home Monday and deliver a rally in none other than Prescott, speaking on the steps of the Yavapai County Courthouse, where Barry Goldwater launched his senatorial and presidential campaigns...