“Obama’s chances for re-election ... are no better than 50-50.”

Gotta blog it since it’s the big national poll of the day, but the results are mainly uninteresting and subject to a sample skew. Last month’s WSJ poll had it 43D/39R/14I if you included leaners. The new poll: 44D/36R/16I. The spread between Democrats and Republicans has increased by four points since April — and yet [...]

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Taking the fight to Washington

Last year, Representative Dan Boren (D-OK) made the surprise decision to not run for re-election in 2012. The seat, described to me by one person as “the most Republican seat held by a Democrat” in the country, was immediately crowded with a myriad of candidates all vying to be the Republican nominee to represent the [...]

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Conformity is freedom, Winstonia!

The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List has a new video pushing back against the Democrat’s “war on women” talking point — and it’s pretty effective.  Done in the style of war propaganda, with a dollop of 1984 dropped into the mix, the first full minute of the spot takes the form of a government [...]

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Bullies.

A top Democrat on Sunday defended Mitt Romney’s character, saying that despite recent reports that Romney was a bully as a young man attending prep school, he believes that has little to do with the man Romney is today. “There’s not a single thing that I know about Mitt Romney in his adult life which [...]

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Culture.

Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage… “Recommendation: A statement reflecting recent developments on this issue along the following lines: “‘People who believe in equality under the law as a [...]

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"I thought this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. And now he’s changing."

Via Mediaite, the third in an ongoing (and, judging by the page views, extremely popular) series. I’m going to give you two words and I want you to think hard before you react: Romney/Lovitz. It’ll be a fusion ticket. Republican and Democrat, stiff and comedian, trim and husky — basically a Romney/Christie ticket, in other [...]

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“He’s creating class warfare in a country with no class structure.”

Via Newsbusters. The bad news? He’s still identifying as a Democrat. I know “the transition” takes time, but there was an outside chance that the burst of positive feedback he got from righties after his rant with Kevin Smith went viral might speed things up. No dice. The good news? There was also a burst [...]

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Still dogging it.

Jim Geraghty catches another couple of interesting moments from Jodi Kantor’s book The Obamas, one of which follows up on one we’ve already highlighted in the OOTD canon.  In late 2010, Barack Obama was telling people that he was a centrist Blue Dog Democrat at heart: The body of Mr. Obama’s writing and experiences before [...]

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Revolution?

“The Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution… “While tea-party activists have won county chairmanships and seats on state central committees, few (if any) activists have clinched slots on the Republican Party’s 168-member governing committee. That’s not to say that tea-partiers have disappeared or that they won’t get their moment in the sun — [...]

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Above the fray.

“Jeb Bush, whose endorsement of Mitt Romney helped secure the candidate as the all-but-certain GOP nominee, said an interview Romney should avoid the urge to wage a negative campaign. The popular former Florida governor also offered up his pick for Romney’s running mate, and said he’d consider a spot on the GOP ticket if asked. [...]

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"I'll look at the options."

Remember when blue-collar West Virginia was a lock for Democrats in presidential elections?  Good times, good times.  The state has become so disenchanted with Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular that interim Senator and former governor Joe Manchin, himself a Democrat up for re-election this year, says he’s not sure he’d vote for [...]

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Here we go.

I’m … pretty sure the Bible does too, yet rarely do you see chapter and verse cited on cable news when a Democrat or Republican lies. Go figure. But then, I guess we’ve reached this point in the campaign against Romney now. Meanwhile, at the Daily Beast, here’s what Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, is [...]

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"[A] deliberate and determined policy by the Democratic leadership of the United States Senate to avoid responsibility."

Guy Benson says that this is a picture worth 1,086 words — one for each day since the Democrat-led Senate passed the budget resolution required by law each April 15th.  This picture comes from yesterday’s so-called “mark-up session” of the Senate Budget Committee, a meeting which chair Kent Conrad helpfully promoted by declaring that he [...]

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Negativity.

“If the White House gets its political way, ‘trust’ will be a word President Obama and his surrogates use in the next few weeks as often as Obama has talked about ‘fairness,’ and Mitt Romney, once dubbed as hollow to the core, will increasingly be ID’d as a card-carrying ultra-conservative who bobbles into Etch A [...]

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Themes.

“Mitt Romney went well beyond his standard stump speech at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday evening, and offered some of the most specific details to date about the policies he would pursue if elected… “‘I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not [...]

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The truly do-nothing chamber of Congress.

If the fact that the Senate — in defiance of the law — has failed to pass a budget in more than 1,000 days didn’t tip you off, a new report from Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson confirms that the current Senate is the laziest since 1992 (h/t Paul Bedard). The Senate spent an [...]

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"Go see Scalia when you want health care."

What’s the best part of this? The idea of a prominent Democrat interrupting his party’s Mediscare demagoguery to scold the right on increasing health-care costs for seniors? The fact that he thinks ObamaCare, which isn’t even defended as a cost-saving measure anymore, will effectively bend the curve on that? Or his palpable annoyance at the [...]

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Stuck on repeat.

Friday afternoon pop quiz! Which is easier? (A) Passing a budget and bearing the brunt of political demagoguery or (B) not passing a budget and delivering the demagoguery? It must be nice to be a Democrat in Congress. It must be particularly nice to be Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose job seems to amount to spouting [...]

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... not to elect a Republican.

Buddy Roemer coined one of the greatest political slogans in American history when white supremacist David Duke managed to win the a general-election slot in 1991 for Louisiana governor in the open primaries.  Roemer, the incumbent, came in third behind Duke and Democrat Edwin Edwards and just missed a chance to vie for re-election.  The [...]

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In case there was any question.

In case Republican candidates need confirmation that Obamacare was and is a huge vulnerability for the president and Democrats, a new study suggests that, of all the contentious votes taken in the president’s first two years in office, how a House Democrat voted on Obamacare was the most important predictor of whether he would retain [...]

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It's OK if you're a Democrat

Before we begin, I’d like to pass around these complimentary throw pillows to put on your desks. I only do this because I’d hate to see you all injure your faces while smashing your head repeatedly into your keyboard. Fresh on the heels of various stories about inappropriate name calling, another heart warming story crops [...]

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Hehe.

Barack Obama didn’t fare well in Oklahoma in either the Democratic primary or general election of 2008, and, yesterday, Oklahoma Democrats demonstrated that they’re still not his surest fan base. Obama captured just 57 percent of the primary vote, while pro-life Democrat Randall Terry captured 18 percent. (Not too shabby for a fellow whose primary [...]

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The pro-life banner is broad.

As I wrote earlier today, Oklahoma is the reddest state in the country. In the 2008 election, every single county voted for John McCain. Barack Obama wasn’t popular in the Democratic primary in the state, either; he took just 31.19 percent of the vote, while Hillary Clinton captured 54.76 percent. This year, he’s expected to [...]

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Democrats' only hope?

Three weeks ago, former US Senator Bob Kerrey wrote to supporters in an e-mail that he had given the idea of running again to replace retiring Democrat Ben Nelson “very serious thought and prayer,” but that he had decided not to return to Nebraska for another election effort.  According to a Washington Post source, though, [...]

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Indignation.

If you don’t know what this is about, Univision’s Tumblr will catch you up more quickly than I can explain. Like Ace, I wonder what the breakdown is percentage-wise between people who are genuinely offended by what Messina said, people who are ginning up indignation because they want to watch a ruthless Democratic partisan hack [...]

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"A nervous breakdown on paper," says House Democrat.

Barack Obama rolls out his new budget today, one that includes a $1.39 trillion on-budget deficit in the fourth budget year of his presidency despite an election-campaign pledge to cut deficits in half by this time.  The FY2008 budget, the last one signed by a President other than Barack Obama, had a projected deficit of [...]

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Stop. Just stop. Please.

People like to blame Mexico for all sorts of things. Drug trafficking, gastrointestinal disorders, stealing our jobs… and now, stealing our international bodies of water. Or at least that seems to be the opinion of one Mississippi Democrat, a Mr. Steve Holland by name, and he’s not going to take it any more. In fact, [...]

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"I don’t have an opinion to express on how the Senate does its business with regards to this issue."

This isn’t even the most cavalier statement about the budget made by a Democrat today. Take it away, Steny Hoyer: At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, “Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, [...]

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Obligatory.

The tough-guy bravado wears ever thinner over time but I don’t blame him for being irritated at a smear this nasty. He wants to hold a referendum on gay marriage and therefore he’s … George Wallace? What? The punchline is that Christie’s pushing the referendum not because he’s militantly opposed to gays getting married and [...]

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