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Re: Denial Land: I think Democrats will hold Congress,and possibly gain a few seats
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2010, 12:14:25 PM »
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Re: Denial Land: I think Democrats will hold Congress,and possibly gain a few seats
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2010, 07:52:27 PM »


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Re: Denial Land: I think Democrats will hold Congress,and possibly gain a few seats
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2010, 04:10:51 AM »
Getting back to the OP by the DUmor . . .

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Democrats privately fear House prospects worsening


By JIM VANDEHEI & ALEX ISENSTADT & MIKE ALLEN | 8/25/10 9:07 PM EDT
Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.

In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.


They no longer believe the jobs and housing markets will recover – or that anything resembling the White House’s promise of a “recovery summer” is under way. They are even more concerned by indications that House Democrats once considered safe – such as Rep. Betty Sutton, who occupies an Ohio seat that President Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote in 2008 – are in real trouble.

In two close races, endangered Democrats are even running ads touting how they oppose their leadership.

“Democrats kept thinking: ‘We’re going to get better. We’re going to get well before the election,’” said one of Washington’s best-connected Democrats. “But as of this week, you now have people saying that Republicans are going to win the House. And now it’s starting to look like the Senate is going to be a lot closer than people thought.”



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41469.html#ixzz0xhYXyaAu
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Re: Denial Land: I think Democrats will hold Congress,and possibly gain a few seats
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2010, 11:03:35 AM »
If their wacko economic ideas had actually produced steady growth in the markets and started making real headway on unemployment, they'd actually be in reasonably good shape to hold on in both houses, with just the typical mid-term retrograde results.

However, unemployment seems to be stuck two full percentage points above their worst projections, and the markets are mired in a cycle of 5% advances and 3-5% declines, with a gradual snowball of disaster building since the acceleration that comes with sustained positive growth is necessary for the economic model followed by most businesses and individuals.  Such stagnation pushes more and more debtors irretrievably over the edge, building a wave of disaster over the horizon that may well crash home if no solid upward trend emerges by mid-Autumn.
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Re: Denial Land: I think Democrats will hold Congress,and possibly gain a few seats
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2010, 04:33:57 PM »
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By JIM VANDEHEI & ALEX ISENSTADT & MIKE ALLEN | 8/25/10 9:07 PM EDT
Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.

I remove my previous vote for understatement of the year concerning Bobo the Hobo, and respectfully submit this one!

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