Will Republicans Fumble at the Goal Line?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 15th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Will Republicans Fumble at the Goal Line?
Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Last year House Democrats had high hopes of retaking the lower chamber in 2014, and political junkies were inundated with stories about their prowess at fundraising and mobilizing. Those hopes have mostly been dashed. The brutal national environment has forced Democrats onto the defensive. Just last week, the party quietly cut ad time in many Republican-held districts it had been targeting. Still, there is little room for the GOP to grow; its natural ceiling in the House is probably 250 seats, and it already controls 234. In its last update, the Cook Political Report listed 26 Democratic-held…
Obama Has an Ebola Czar. Where Is She?
Mollie Hemingway, Federalist
As the Ebola situation in West Africa continues to deteriorate, some U.S. officials are claiming that they would have been able to better deal with the public health threat if only they had more money.
The Dems’ Most Effective Midterm Message
Josh Kraushaar, NJ
Of all the negative campaign messages that Democrats have used this midterm election, the most effective one is a time-tested line of attack: hitting Republican businessmen for being exorbitantly wealthy while outsourcing jobs overseas and laying off employees. It was President Obama’s central argument in his reelection campaign against Mitt Romney, and it is being put to devastating use again in a handful of close gubernatorial and congressional races this year.
Ferguson: A Movement Goes on Offense
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Sixty-four days after Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, a group of demonstrators began streaming out of the Wellspring Church and into the drizzling rain on South Florissant Road. It was just after 10 A.M. on Columbus Day. At the head of the assemblage, a line of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish clergy locked arms and began singing “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Roughly a thousand people, many of them from out of town, gathered three blocks away, in front of the local police headquarters, as part of a series of actions organized under the banner of…
