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...think the chances are excellent," said Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro. The No. 2 Democrat in House, Whip Steny Hoyer, says some members of the GOP have already been coming up to him and saying they only wish he was in line to become Speaker rather than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who disagrees with Republicans on even more issues than Hoyer. In a meeting with a handful of lawmakers and the Australian Prime Minister, California Republican David Drier, one of the closest allies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, accidentally referred to "Speaker Pelosi," leading to chuckles from both Hastert...
...message isn't always getting through. Some Democrats are already campaigning for positions they would take if Democrats control Congress. James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is number three in the leadership as conference chairman, has started asking colleagues to support him in a campaign to be the whip in a Democrat congress, a job Emanuel would be a very strong contender for if Democrats won the House...
...Doing all these things is of course no guarantee of victory. "Rahm can run as aggressive an operation as possible and raise as much money as possible and whip candidates into shape," said one Democratic strategist, "but he can't make up the wave. Bush is the wave. These races are all about Bush...
...whom Republicans call a San Francisco liberal but whose aides prefer to describe as a "churchgoing mother of five, grandmother of five"--becomes the public face of the majority. Allies of Pelosi, who put Emanuel in his campaign job, say that if the Democrats take over, he could become whip, the third-ranking leader. Several Democrats familiar with House sentiment speculate that if the party wins big, members might decide to be bold and pass over her for a Speaker Emanuel, which has a nice ring. (Says Emanuel: "She will be the leader. Not interested...
...event was an effort to whip up support for Patrick’s outsider bid just a day before the start of the Massachusetts Democratic Convention...