A once-fractious primary battle for the District mayoralty has narrowed into a two-person race between incumbent Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser, who are in a dead heat for the Democratic nomination, according to a new Washington Post poll. … Gray, however, retains a path to victory, […] Read more »
Numbers Don’t Lie: It’s a Tough Year for Democrats
There has been a growing sense in recent weeks that the odds of Republicans picking up a Senate majority in November are not only growing, may well have tipped over to better than 50-50. The numbers, geography, and timing for Senate Democrats have been challenging from the beginning of this […] Read more »
Democrats’ Growing Problems With Independent Voters on the Senate Map
… Attitudinally, independents once again more closely resemble GOP voters than Democrats. The CBS News/New York Times survey found that while Democrats continued to approve of the president (76 percent approve), Republicans (only 7 percent approve) and independents (only 37 percent approve) did not, and while 60 percent of Democrats […] Read more »
Are Some Senate Democrats Too Likable to Vote Out?
Republicans are counting on a favorable environment and target-rich map to carry them to a Senate majority in 2015. But standing between them and victory are a slew of Democratic incumbents who, while vulnerable, have one important advantage: People like them. There’s no better example than in New Hampshire, home […] Read more »
Four years later, Dems wait for ObamaCare popularity bounce
Democrats have been waiting for ObamaCare to become popular for four years. And counting. Congressional leaders and senior White House advisers have been saying since 2010 that public opinion will turn their way sometime soon. Be patient, they have told anxious members of their party again and again. … Democrats […] Read more »
After setbacks, tea party members vow to reinvent movement
… Five years after it emerged as the most potent force in conservative American politics since the Reagan revolution, the tea party is at a crossroads — and some critics have declared the movement all but dead. Insisting that they’ve learned from the setbacks, however, stalwarts are vowing to reinvent […] Read more »