Democrats See Victory in U.S. House Races, Senate Within Reach

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aHczjrHrbtxo&refer=us

Democrats See Victory in U.S. House Races, Senate Within Reach

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman Charles Rangel and Chairman -- again -- John Dingell. Those titles will soon sound familiar.

Barring an unexpected and big event, Democrats will win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November and conceivably the Senate, too. Whether it's a tsunami or just a powerful wave, the political dynamics are moving in that direction, or more accurately, against the Republicans and President George W. Bush.

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``We have to go back to 1974 (during Watergate) to find such a favorable environment,'' says James Carville, who ran Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. ``If we can't win in this environment, we have to question the whole premise of the party.''

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Bill McInturff, the pre-eminent Republican pollster who sees survey data from all over the country, isn't any more sanguine. ``The national mood is like that of sweep elections,'' he says. ``People are angry about Iraq, about gas prices, about health care.''

[electropop]

1. "Barring an unexpected and big event"

Such as massive, national Diebolding?

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Which the democrats in congress have done very little to correct,

since the election in 2004, when Diebold sElected Bush.

[jazzjunkysue]

4. Maybe if the election is regged locally people will finally wake up;

We need to make sure the elections are fair in 08.

[Benhurst]

8. If the elections of 2006 follow the pattern of the 2000, 2002 and

2004 elections, it will be too late to do anything. It will be time to put a fork in American democracy. Any chance of reform will move from the polling place to the streets.

[kurth]

6. Still it's NOT ok to be complacent

Look at 2000, 2004.

[Bumblebee]

10. or invasion/bombing of Iran

[Freedom_from_Chains]

15. Or worse? I would pay real close attention to that line. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

16. I was wondering about a manufactured catastrophe...

will we see more terra! terra! terra!

[BOSSHOG]

2. No doubt the republican slime machine

is already planning for February 2007. If the dems do take control the blame the dems machine will be in full mode. Not a day will go by that dems will be trashed for anything and everything. How freaking evil can a political entity be?

[Jawja]

7. Not if they are on the

defensive over investigations and hearings, etc.

[Bumblebee]

11. I'll be happy to live with that -- as long as they do re-take the House

and perhaps the Senate. The rest is minor even if annoying.

[rodeodance]

5. we all have lots of work to do to get out the vote!

[Demeter]

9. As If the Democratic Guys Will Let Pelosi Stay in Power

All those drama queens will boot her faster than lightning.

[caligirl]

12. Rove manipulating troup withdrawals to steal again! Hope it backfires on

him. Republicans manipulating Blair, manipulating our troop withdrawals so Santorum and Allen have a better shot at dems. Hmmm.


"Earlier this year, Blair flew first to Baghdad and then to Washington where there were plans for a joint announcement with President Bush on the withdrawal of troops. The British were to pull out of Muthanna province in the south, while the Americans withdrew from a number of provinces in the north. But while the British withdrawal from Muthanna was announced, by the time Blair arrived in Washington, the US withdrawals had been cancelled. A senior British official said the sudden change came about as a result of a change in circumstances on the ground.

But senior defence sources said that while there has been continuing trouble in the Sunni triangle and Baghdad, there were no problems that should have stopped the Americans withdrawing from the north. There were suspicions the cancellation was related to the need to hold back troop withdrawals to closer to the US mid-term elections in November, one source said.

Gen George Casey, the senior US military commander in Iraq, has drawn up a plan that would see the number of US troops in Iraq drop below 100,000 by the end of next year. Under Casey’s plan the withdrawals will begin next month in a move believed to be timed to coincide with the mid-term elections.

Could the Bush administration be so cynical as to manipulate a campaign in which more than 2,600 US soldiers, and more than 30,000 Iraqis, not to mention 115 British troops, have died to suit the Republicans electoral chances in the mid-term elections and the next presidential elections? I think we all know the answer to that one. Would Tony Blair be so gutless as to allow British troops to stay in Iraq simply because Bush needs it to keep the Republican vote from collapsing? Sadly, I think we all know the answer to that one too."

http://timesonline.typepad.com/mick_smith/2006/08/are_we_staying_.html#more

[Bandit]

13. we have to question the whole premise of the party.''

but certainly not how the votes are counted. IOW Diebold..Democrats stick their heads in the sand just like an ostrich over this issue....

[rpannier]

14. We have to question the whole premise of the Party

You mean like trying to be puke light?
You mean like throwing our base overboard to try and not alienate the so-called moderate voters you
wish to attract?
You mean like sitting quietly in the corner hoping it will be our time soon?
You mean like putting schrum in charge of another failed Presidential campaign?
You mean like not going on the attack because we don't want to appear mean or angry?