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The Juice: Poersch, Jesmer try to put their parties on top in the Senate
J.B. Poersch and Rob Jesmer have a lot in common. They’re sleep-deprived dads, each with a toddler and a crawling baby at home. And Poersch, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Jesmer, his counterpart at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, are both st…


United States – Senate – Government – Legislative Branch – Politics

Some Democratic candidates distance themselves from Obama
Fight or flight? That is the question Democratic incumbents and challengers in this fall’s elections are asking themselves when it comes to dealing with President Obama. Is the best course to distance oneself from a president whose job-approval rating has sunk below 50 percent and whose appeal to…


United States – Barack Obama – Democratic – President – Politics

Democrats uncertain about approach to midterms
The Democrats passed the stimulus package. They passed health-care and Wall Street overhauls and revamped the financing system for higher education. Their other main priorities, on immigration and energy, appear to be headed nowhere.


Democratic – United States – Politics – Parties – Washington

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Democrats, Republicans spar over mosque near Ground Zero
President Obama’s remarks Friday and Saturday on a proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero sparked heated exchanges on the Sunday morning news shows.


United States – Islam – Republican – Politics – Parties

Public’s Alienation Isn’t Likely to Go Away
Ron Brownstein, Nat’l Journal
The electoral wave threatening congressional Democrats this fall looks at least as big as the breakers that flattened congressional Republicans in 2006 and 2008. But the odds are high that this won't be the last storm surge from an angry sea of American discontent.Democrats are facing a midterm drenching partly because they have inspired an ideological backlash among small-government voters. But their greatest problem is that they control all of Washington's levers at a time when most Americans are deeply unhappy with the country's direction. Even as voters prepare to…

Bumper Sticker Nation
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — We are our bumper stickers. They are one way that we define ourselves and announce our various identities to the outside world: that we voted for Bush or Gore; that we're a Buckeye or a Wolverine; that we're “pro-life” or “pro-choice”; that we favor this candidate or that for school board or Congress; that our kids play soccer and won the county championship; and that we vacation in the Grand Tetons or at Disney World. These badges of self-expression span an almost-infinite range of beliefs and behaviors. They also capture one of the enduring…

Obama’s Clintonian Mosque Speech
Byron York, Washington Examiner

Prominent Dems Want Vicki Kennedy to Run Against Brown