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...website. "Democratic offices have been vandalized. Please chip in $5 or more to defend health reform - and those in Congress who fought to make it possible." Though both parties saw significant fundraising bumps from the passage of the bill, the Democratic National Committee raised $2 million more than its GOP counterpart...
...reform despite enormous pressure from party leaders, is exactly the kind of spirit that appeals to Staten Islanders. He swept into office with 61% of the vote in 2008, in part because of the Democratic wave that year and in part because of the doings of Vito Fosella, his GOP predecessor. Fosella was forced to resign after news broke that he had a mistress and love child in Virginia. The Cook Political Report rates the district R+4, meaning it leans Republican. And with the GOP expected to make a strong nationwide comeback in congressional races this fall, McMahon...
Once left for dead, even by some of its leaders, the Republican Party has come roaring back into competition. The stakes are high in November; national opinion surveys show a two-percentage point GOP edge, and some polls even suggest that the Republicans could retake the Senate. Obama’s approval ratings have fallen by 24 percent in less than a year, in spite of having achieved his top legislative priority and overseeing a successful stabilization of the banking industry. Yes, the American people do tend to check their leaders by issuing them losses in midterm elections, but Obama?...
...Those principles are increasingly well-defined. Whether the party can win the votes to support them is a murkier matter. Martin and Mandile dismiss notions of a Tea Party purity test for candidates, and mainstream Republicans are trumpeting the movement's potential boost to the GOP in November. "I think they're going to be enormously influential," says Pete Wehner, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration official who is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. "I don't get a sense that this flame is going to be dimmed much." But Republicans...
...Meanwhile, the default position for the GOP in the Obama era is no, and while its united recalcitrance failed (barely!) to stop health care, that's likely to make its leaders even less eager to hand the President another big victory. For reasons of anti-regulatory ideology as well as intense pressure from banks and other business lobbies, many Republicans - and some conservative Democrats - are deeply uncomfortable with a financial crackdown in the first place. Senator Bob Corker has been the GOP's leading voice for compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many...