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...says Senator Charles Schumer, the New Yorker who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Indeed, though Georgia incumbent Saxby Chambliss was sitting on an 18-point lead in September over former state representative Jim Martin, the latest polls have Martin pulling within 3 points of the incumbent. Four other GOP Senators--Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John Sununu of New Hampshire, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota--trail their Democratic challengers in the most recent polls. Mississippi's contest between Republican incumbent Roger Wicker and Democratic former governor Ronnie Musgrove is too close to call. And there...
...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...
...some criticize the Obama campaign for failing to reach out enough to black voters, the GOP isn't taking advantage of the opening. In 2004, President Bush carried 11% of black voters nationally. After a GOP convention in which blacks accounted for just 36, or 1.5%, of the delegates - down from 6.7% four years ago - the Arizona Senator is not expected to capture more than 5% of the black vote. That could be fatal in states like Ohio, where Jones, the Cleveland radio host, observes, "I haven't seen any John McCain posters. None. He hasn't reached...
...starting on a level playing field," argues Russell Riley of the Miller Center of Public Affairs. "We hear a lot about John McCain throwing Hail Mary passes. Well, there are certain times in football games when a Hail Mary pass is called for." At a time when the gop is in shambles and its brand worth about the same as mortgage-backed securities, any Republican candidate would need to change the dynamic of the game. You can judge how well he throws the pass, but you have to value him with some kind of discount, Riley says, "as opposed...