Tim Kaine: Democrats will keep control of the House
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee predicts that Democrats will retain control of the House and Senate after November midterm elections.
"Do you think you will keep the House?" ABC's Christine Amanpour asked DNC Chairman Tim Kaine Sunday.
"I do," he said. "I think it's going to be close, and as you point, these races are very close. But from this point forward, it's all about turnout and ground game, and we're seeing good early voting trends and we -- we've got work to do, but we think we can do it."
"Are you saying that all the polling, the predictions are wrong? Because everywhere you look, it says that you're not going to keep the House," Amanpour wondered.
"The polling is moving," Kaine explained. "We really haven't seen since Labor Day polls moving against us. Almost all the polls have been moving for us. Now, we still have some work to do, but what Democrats tend to specialize in is the ground game, the turnout. The more people turn out, the better we do, and we are seeing strong trends at the presidential rallies and early voting."
The top Democrat was even more sure about the Senate.
"We're not taking a single race for granted, so let me start there, but I think, you know, four or five months ago, the Republicans thought they had a great chance at taking both houses. For a variety of reasons, the Senate has gotten much more difficult for them," he said.
"We're seeing this week strong moves in polling for our Senate candidates in California, in Washington. Pennsylvania has gone, Joe Sestak from behind to even. So we feel like we've got a very good ground game, but a lot more work to do. We're not taking it for granted."
But not everyone shares Kaine's optimism that Democrats can keep the House.
A review by The New York Times found that Republicans will mostly likely win the House but not the Senate.
A costly and polarizing Congressional campaign heads into its closing week with Republicans in a strong position to win the House but with Democrats maintaining a narrow edge in the battle for the Senate, according to a race-by-race review and lawmakers and strategists on both sides.
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In the House, 28 Democratic seats are either leaning Republican or all but lost to Republican candidates, according to the latest ratings of Congressional races by The New York Times, while 40 seats held by Democrats are seen as tossups. To win a majority, Republicans need to pick up a net of 39 seats; to reach that threshold they will probably have to win at least 44 seats now held by Democrats to offset a handful of projected Democratic victories in Republican-held districts.
In the Senate, races for Democratic-held seats in California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia are rated as tossups by The Times. Republicans seem assured of taking Democratic seats in other states, including Arkansas and Indiana, but must win at least five of the seven most competitive remaining races to seize a majority, and Democrats improved their standing in at least three of those states last week.
Great
But when are they gonna control the agenda, and stare down republican obstructionism and threats of filibusters?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
single payer back on the table. Did anybody on our side watch to see where they put these things after they took them off the table?
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
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for safe keeping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRb8TigJ28
Hasa Diga Eebowai
We need Howard Dean and his 50 State Strategy that worked so effectively in the last election.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
so that's why we dropped that strategy. It was working.
Every single blue dog owes Dean a vote of thanks.
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why is Dean not in the White House as Chief of Staff or in some advisory position? He did so much for Democrats why was he sidestepped?
I don't know and everything I've read seems to be more or less speculation about personal conflicts. Dean's a pretty decent guy. He deserves better.
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I hope he's right. The only hope that I have is that the pollsters don't poll the young people on cell phones. For the most part, they only poll land-lines, so there's hope. Now, the question is, will the young people come out to vote?
Holding on the majorities in the House and Senate is meaningless if the Dems have to rely on the Blue Dogs.
I would gladly trade two DINOs for one true progressive that doesn't need to be bribed for a vote...
contradict the drumbeat that the MSM has been beating so long and so loud. These are serious journalists here, who have already decided that the Dems will lose big time - why would anyone question their wisdom?
Slightly good news, in the 'we will take what we can get' category, Joe Biden will campaign for Alan Grayson. Glad to see Alan getting some 'official' support, hope it doesn't cause more harm than good.
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however, if he's not, I fully expect the Democrats to be as nasty, and obstructionist as the Repubs (and Blue Dogs) have been. I dare them to even speak of bi-partisanship. If they do, the response should be a resounding 'fuck you, and the horse you rode in on!'.
There will be no compromise, and there will be no participation in any Repub initiatives. I say this because you know there will be calls to put aside our differences and work together. Bullshit..............there is no working with these fucking idiots. None.
My worst nightmare? That drunken prick John Boehner as Speaker...............just the thought of that asshole being in that role is nauseating.
they were all saying nobody knows who Boner is and now he has stepped out of the limelight.
if the Republicans were to re-institute their wacky economic policies and cause the inevitable economic meltdown should the Democrats oppose a stimulus plan that the Republicans offer? An expansion of unemployment payments?
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I think the Dems will act just as they did during the first half of this sad decade if the bastards in the GOP are allowed to regain control. I don't know much about football, but the Dems seem fond of the "prevent defense", from opinions I've have heard on the sports strategy.
Tim Kaine = Dixiecrat.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
will get her wish.
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It ain't over til the last Diebold vote is counted. It's the Repugs' ace in the hole.
OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT.
THEY CAN'T STEAL IT IF IT'S NOT CLOSE.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin
I swear that looks like the smile of someone who laid a nasty fart, and pretending not to notice...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and perhaps the media will lead reality.
The Republicans have demonstrated admirably that you don't need to control any of the three houses to control the agenda, and really you only need one asshole senator.
Maybe he can look into his crystal ball and tell us what the dems will do when they win that will be any different that what they are doing now.
Yeah, and if the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and the White House (read the departed Mr. Rahm Emmauel) had gotten behind Joe Sestak earlier instead of backing their recent convert Republicrat/Demopublican Arlen Spector in the primary, Sestak would have had a commanding lead over Pisspat Toomey. Nice going assholes.
Fuck the DSCC, the DCCC and the DNC. I wipe my ass with their mailings. I'd rather give to (and have) to Act Blue than the mealymouths at the head of the party now.
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I'm not impressed with this guy. Howard Dean came at the Republicans early and often. He organized the campaign which led to the Democratic victories in 2006 and 2008. He was always on TV. Where has this guy been? Where has the Democratic campaign been? For weeks and weeks I was inundated with Republican campaign ads on TV. Little Democratic response. Finally, with two weeks left, the Democratic ads trickle in. If it's a matter of funds, this guy doesn't seem to be able to organize that either. And don't get me started on how Grayson and others received no campaign funds.
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