Tag: democrat
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Americans have had enough. According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, two-thirds of Americans describe themselves as either "dissatisfied" or "angry" with the government. That's the largest number since the government had to partially shut down when President Clinton and the Republican ... Read More
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President Obama's poll numbers slipped dramatically over his first year in office. Since last February, the percent of Americans who say they approve of his performance has fallen twenty points. Just about half of us say we approve of his performance today. According to recent Gallup polling, Obama ... Read More
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President Obama won office in part on the strength of his promise to be a "post-partisan" president. But Obama's attempts to reach out to the other party—as admirable as they may seem in theory—may have backfired on him and the Democrats. The Republicans quickly realized that he couldn't change the ... Read More
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The conventional wisdom is that Republican Scott Brown's upset victory in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's vacant Senate seat was a referendum on health care reform. In a sense it's true. A majority of voters saw health care as the most important issue in the election, with most of Martha ... Read More
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After Martha Coakley called Scott Brown to concede the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's old seat in the Senate, a friend of mine confidently predicted that not only would health care reform likely collapse, but that the Democrats would also probably lose both houses of Congress. And with the ... Read More
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"The worst debacle in American political history." That's what a senior Democratic Party official called the Democrat Martha Coakley's performance in the Massachusetts special election to fill deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat. That may be an exaggeration, but there's no question that losing the ... Read More
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During the presidential campaign in 2008, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reportedly said in private that he believed that the country was ready to elect a black man who, like Barack Obama, was "light-skinned" and didn't talk with a "negro dialect." He added that Obama's race would probably ... Read More
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As I wrote yesterday, with the unemployment rate at 10% and the economy still hemorrhaging jobs, the Democrats are in trouble. Now more than ever they need to field their best slate of candidates. But this week a number of prominent Democrats announced they won't run in the fall, almost certainly in ... Read More
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Unemployment is a peculiar feature of the division of labor. In a society where people are able to completely provide for themselves by hunting or growing their own food, barring some ecological disaster no one ever has to be "out of work." But where our ability to support ourselves depends on our ... Read More
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With unemployment hovering around 10%, it looks likely the Democrats could lose a substantial number of seats in the 2010 midterms. In fact, the economic climate already seems to have claimed its first casualties, with two longtime Democratic senators announcing yesterday that they would not seek ... Read More
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