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But where Democrats see the President's visit as a way to build Bennet's network, opponents are working to tether the candidate to a President who looms as the most visible face in a virulently anti-incumbent cycle. "I think it's mixed," says Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster...
A third strand of thinking is more prosaic and might feel familiar to survivors of politics of the early 1990s. That too was an era of deep divisions and wildly swinging opinion polls: Obama's recent roller-coaster ride is nothing compared with the 50-point plunge in George H.W...
And though progressives welcomed the news, Reid's surprise was not exactly embraced by Dems across the board. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted coolly, saying only that she "looks forward to reviewing the Senate proposal." The New York Times editorial board panned Reid's substitute bill as "pathetic" and "so...
In February 2009, Hutchison, who had her eye on going home from Washington to run for governor, held a 56% to 31% lead in the Rasmussen poll over Republican incumbent Governor Rick Perry. A year later, Rasmussen has Perry at 44%, Hutchison at 29% and Debra Medina, a little-known...
• Fonseka threw his hat into the ring for the Jan. 27 presidential elections, then considered just a formality for Rajapaksa, and provided the incumbent a real political challenge. Though he cobbled together a loose coalition of opposition, Muslim and ethnic Tamil political parties, Fonseka ultimately failed to win enough...