Republicans Keep Edge in Senate Estimate
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 7th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Republicans Keep Edge in Senate Estimate
Anthony Salvanto, CBS News
Many key Senate battleground contests in our latest Battleground Tracker model show just a point or two separating the Democrats and Republicans, and all the leads for either side remain in single digits. Our new simulation keeps the most likely Senate outcome at a 51-49 GOP majority if the election were held today, as Republicans benefit from having many paths to get to that 51 or beyond. Democrats keep things close by benefiting from a large gender gap – leading among women in every battleground Senate race and by double-digits in most – and with leads among moderate voters even in the most…
Republicans Are Failing to Destroy Obamacare
Scott Lemieux, Guardian
The Republican party’s effort to deny any (if not all) access to affordable healthcare for as many people as humanly (though not humanely) possible took a major blow on Thursday, when the full DC circuit court of appeals decided to review the anti-Obamacare decision issued by two Republican-appointed judges earlier this year. Since that opinion made Bush v Gore look like a model of thoughtful jurisprudence, the Obama administration asked the full court to reconsider. It will, and their pending ruling is bad news for conservatives who want to preserve Americans’ precious freedom to…
President Obama Disappoints, Again
Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
President Barack Obama has one person to blame for looking indecisive, dithering and cowed by bungled political calculations: Barack Obama. He’s the one, after all, who strode into the Rose Garden on June 30 to announce that America couldn’t wait forever on immigration reform and pledging to move forward with a set of executive actions “before the end of summer.” He’s the one who spent that afternoon lighting into Republicans in Congress for punting and punting and punting again.
