How Dems Could Maintain Senate Control
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 7th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
How Dems Could Maintain Senate Control
Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
A few weeks ago I wrote Senate Republicans would gain at least seven seats, even though the Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call race ratings showed a likely Republican gain of five to eight seats.That expectation was based on national survey results that showed the president extremely is unpopular and voters are unhappy with the direction of the country, as well as state polling that showed Democratic incumbents well below the critical 50 percent threshold in ballot tests against their GOP opponents.
Roberts Court’s Brief Progressive Moment
Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker
It’s hard enough to know what the Justices of the Supreme Court are talking about when they write opinions, which tend to be dense, convoluted, and laden with coded references that are decipherable only to a few. But, on Monday, the Court presented an even greater interpretive challenge: determining what it meant when it said nothing at all. Without comment, the Court let stand successful challenges to the bans on same-sex marriage in five states. Those lower-court rulings had been stayed while the parties waited to hear from the Justices. Now that they won’t be saying anything,…
Elbert Guillory & Reverse Southern Strategy
Robert Tracinski, Federalist
Elbert Guillory has just shown us the way forward.Guillory is a Louisiana state senator who caused a stir last year when he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. That would not have been news if Guillory were white; in fact, he would have been pretty far behind the curve. But Guillory is black and represents a poor black district, which makes his spirited defense of the Republican Party much more significant.
Obama’s Remarkable Dispassion
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
