Harsh Words Can Pull in Campaign Cash
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 2nd, 2010 4:40 am by HL
Harsh Words Can Pull in Campaign Cash
USA Today notes that of the top 10 fundraisers for House seats this election season, three have come under fire for their comments, including Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
Skip the August Recess?
Democratic strategist Robert Shrum says Democrats should hold keep Congress in special session this August to highlight their differences with the Republicans on jobless benefits, financial reform and energy policy.
“As they face the midterms, Democrats and the President plainly need something more than rallies, emails, fundraising appeals and television ads. Perhaps the best way out of the political swamp that threatens them would be staying in the Washington swamp this August. It also has the additional virtue, often rare in election year politics, of being right on the merits.”
Who are the Tea Partiers?
A USA Today/Gallup poll finds that three of 10 Americans describe themselves as Tea Party supporters — equal to the number who call themselves Republicans — “though many of them acknowledge they aren’t exactly sure what that allegiance means.”
In fact, the Tea Party “is less a classic political movement than a frustrated state of mind.”
“What unites Tea Party supporters is less their geography or demography than their policy views: a firm conviction that the federal government has gotten too big and too powerful and a fear that the nation faces great peril. Nine in 10 are unhappy with the country’s direction and see the federal debt as an ominous threat to its future. Almost as many say neither President Obama nor most members of Congress deserve re-election.”
