The Rose Garden: Allies Pore Over Mistakes in Health Debate
He campaigned for gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey and a Senate candidate in Massachusetts. All lost.
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He campaigned for gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey and a Senate candidate in Massachusetts. All lost.
The speech couldn’t come at a better time: Democrats are still reeling from losing last week’s Senate special election in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown and struggling to keep health care
Though he won re-election in 2008 with 68 percent of the vote and there is not yet a Democrat registered to run against him this year, Boehner has already raised $2.3 million for his own campaign
In the Senate, that includes 14 Republicans and 11 Democrats. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is the most popular user in Congress with almost 1.6 million followers.
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) also is struggling to win re-election in a state that has little affection for Obama. Sen.
House and Senate Republicans will stick to largely the same road map for 2010, following a “death by 1,000 cuts— strategy to attack the Democrats and their agenda.
“The economy has got to be the focus all year,— Senate Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said in early January.
President Barack Obama will appear with politically embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in Las Vegas next month, according to a White House official.While it is not clear whether the appearance
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) seems to be having a very bad year. And it’s only Jan. 21. He was already facing a brutal re-election battle this November.
John Kerry (D-Mass.) won re-election with 66 percent.
Parker Griffith’s (R-Ala.) surprise party switch, and the new obstacles the freshman Congressman faces as he looks to his re-election are being underscored at county Republican meetings taking place in
Evan Bayh (D), who so far does not have a competitive race for re-election. “We think the Massachusetts victory will be helpful twofold,— NRSC Executive Director Rob Jesmer said.
Move over John Thune, there’s a new dragon slayer in the Senate. Scott Brown, who claimed the late Sen.
for health care reform, which just days ago seemed a sure bet for a landmark legislative achievement but has been thrown into doubt by Republican Scott Brown’s come-from-behind victory that will end Senate
Senate seat this year,— Dardenne said in a statement.
With the possibility that a Republican could win Tuesday’s Senate special election in Massachusetts and kill the Democrats’ 60-vote supermajority, the president may be rethinking how to re-engage
Senate seat this year,” Dardenne said in a statement.
Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-Ariz.) path to re-election got significantly tougher with state Sen.
Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-Ariz.) path to re-election just got a lot tougher with state Sen. Jonathan Paton’s (R) entry into the race Sunday.
Overall, 60 percent of Nebraskans oppose the health care reform bills that passed the House and Senate late last year.