According to the current news reports the democrats are waking up and gaining ground. One nation rally drew more than 200,000 people at the Washington DC mall last Saturday. The democrats are fired up and they are ready to fight back against the tea party thugs (X convicts and criminals) and the republican right wing machines. The democrats are waking up and coming home finally.
Are the Dems making their comeback?
While Republicans retained their advantage just weeks before next month’s midterm elections, Democrats are gaining momentum, according to a new poll.
The Washington Post-ABC News poll, released on Tuesday, shows that voters prefer Republican congressional candidates compared to their Democrat counterparts 39% to 43%.
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Are Democrats doing better? Are they closing the enthusiasm gap? Why are Republicans exuding less confidence about the Democratic Party's scheduled root canal on November 2?
There is some obvious perception-framing here. Republicans want to make sure that a 45-seat pick-up is seen as a "win" for the party, particularly when pundits like Charlie Cook talk about a landscape with more than 70 seats in play. (Of course, Cook knows that Democrats will win many of the seats, but when people hear 70, they expect 70). Precisely because the 2010 election is not a vote of confidence for Republican leaders in Congress -- it has become in so many races the opposite -- if Republicans win, they will need to claim a mandate. It won t appear. Expectations must be managed.
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