The New York Times has some encouraging news! The continuing trend of Americans to seek change in the voting booth this November has put Democrats in striking distance to take back both the Senate and the House. A few choice bits from the article:
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Still, a shift in the Senate was always considered a long shot this year. Some analysts now say, however, that there are enough Republican seats facing serious challenges to make it at least plausible.
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In Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, has been lagging behind Bob Casey, the state treasurer, for months. In Rhode Island, Senator Lincoln Chafee, a Republican, overcame his primary challenge, but remains locked in a tight race with Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democrat and former state attorney general.
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Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said: “We will pick up seats. And if the stars continue to align, we can take back the Senate.”
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The Virginia race — between Mr. Allen and Jim Webb, the Democrat — looked safe for the Republicans until Mr. Allen made a demeaning reference to a young American man of Indian descent — a Webb campaign worker — at a rally in August. Then, last week, Mr. Allen reacted angrily to a reporter’s question about whether his mother had been born Jewish, which began another distracting episode for his campaign.
This week, he has faced accusations that he used racist slurs in the 1970’s and 1980’s — allegations that Mr. Allen has flatly denied.
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Analysts say the level of Senate competition should come as no surprise; Senate races are more likely to reflect national trends, they say, whereas most House districts are so carefully drawn on partisan lines that “they are safe against anything but a hurricane,” said Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
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3 Comments:
Don't forget that George Allen displayed the CONFEDERATE FLAG in the Governor's office while he was Governor of Virginia. Scary.
For the Democrats to win back the senate, it's necessary for Menendez to keep the NJ seat, which looks increasingly unlikely due to the corruption charges.
It's not necessarily necessary...if the Democrats take the Republican-held seats in Pennsylvania, Montana, Ohio and Rhode Island (very likely) and also the seats in Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia (seats where the candidates are pretty much tied) and retain our somewhat threatened seats in Maryland, Washington, and Michigan then we could lose New Jersey and still take the Senate.
Plus I don't think Menendez is necessarily a goner, he still has a lot more money than his challenger and Democrats in New Jersey often run behind in the summer and fall but finally rally the base in the last month and win (it is a very blue state). However, the challenger Kean has a very famous name and Menendez is seen as corrupt.
It's a long shot but if the stars align, which they just might, we have a shot.
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