Mark Levin: Democrats Need a Good Swift Kick in the Ass on Election Day
Mark Levin joined Sean Hannity on his show tonight to take on midterm season. ANd they ran through a number of topics before focusing on Democrats and President Obama. Levin predicted ...
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Even Democrats Admit Jeanne Shaheen Looked Angry At Debate
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Denver (CNN) -- While an increasingly unpopular President Obama seems to be on a self-imposed Rose Garden strategy this election, one Democrat is in demand on the campaign trail: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
She's an unabashed progressive from Massachusetts, a Democrat who thinks Democrats are too timid and a populist who has been called to help in red, blue and purple states. And despite her frequent protests, she's someone that liberals long to see launch a 2016 bid for the White House.
Warren is an unusual Washington phenoma combination of loyal soldier and inside agitator, a star who has no problem taking on her own party.
"What the Democrats have to do is be willing to stand up and fight," she tells CNN. Asked if the party hasn't been willing to do that, she responds: "I just think we can use a little more of that. I think we can use a little more of standing up and saying this is what it's about, and I'm willing to do it."
Warren's job this election season is to gin up a party base that lacks energy, and she's been taking her message to get out the vote to 15 states so far. This weekend, she ventures to New Hampshire to stump for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, locked in a close contest with Republican Scott Brown. The race is personal for Warren: she defeated Brown in 2012 for her Senate seat when he lived in Massachusetts.
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Warren has also raised money -- about $6 million -- for the party this cycle.
But most of all, she's reminding Democrats that they have a large stake in this election.
"The powerful and the rich should get richer and more powerful," Warren tells a crowd of several hundred in Boulder. "That's what it's all about for the Republicans."
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The state Democratic Party has withdrawn its Oct. 1 request for a Federal Election Commission opinion on the legality of using funds raised for federal congressional campaigns to pay for mass mailings promoting re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The withdrawal avoids the possibility of receiving a legal thumbs-down from the FEC on the mass mailing that the Democrats decided to move forward with, anyway, about a week after submitting the Oct. request.
The Democrat's attorney informed the FEC in an email, shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, that it was dropping its request for the federal agency's advice. The email was sent on the eve of the federal election agency's scheduled consideration of the matter at a Thursday meeting.
Also Thursday, the matter was argued by Democratic and Republican lawyers in Hartford Superior Court, where a judge held off on a decision until he can review arguments concerning the GOP's request for an injunction to stop Democrats from using the federal campaigns to help Malloy.
The state Democratic Party's lawyer wrote to the FEC Oct. 1 to ask whether the federal commission would concur with the party's contention that it could legally spend the federal campaign funds to help Malloy. Then, about a week ago, the Democrats decided to go forward with a massive pro-Malloy mailing without waiting for the FEC's advice.
Republicans joined the State Election Enforcement Commission and the good-government advocacy group Common Cause in blasting Democrats for their pro-Malloy use of the party's "federal account," which receives heavy contributions from state contractors who are banned from contributing to state political campaigns.
Anticipating that the FEC would be considering the legality of the Democrats' move, the SEEC sent a 10-page letter to the federal commission earlier this month arguing that it should call the move illegal because it would "cynically circumvent" the state clean-election law that bans the contractors from giving money to candidates for state office.
Now that Democrats have told the FEC that they don't want an answer, state Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. said Thursday: "Of course Connecticut Democrats have withdrawn their request from the FEC. They've already sent the mailers, they've already violated the law -- the last thing they want now is for the FEC to confirm that they've violated the law."
"The fact is that Connecticut Democrats and Dan Malloy are engaging in an illegal pay-to-play scheme to raise money from state contractors and use it to fund the governor's campaign," Labriola said in an email.
Democratic Party Executive Director Jonathan Harris said: "This is simple: Jerry Labriola is lying about the facts, because he's trying to draw attention away from Tom Foley's abysmal record of exploiting the middle class, walking away with millions of dollars, and paying almost no taxes. ... The GOP should focus on developing an agenda that doesn't turn back the clock on everything from women's rights, to marriage equality, to support for the middle class."
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A notable finding in a new AP-GfK poll:
Women have moved in the GOP's direction since September. In last month's AP-GfK poll, 47 percent of female likely voters said they favored a Democratic-controlled Congress while 40 percent wanted the Republicans to capture control. In the new poll, the two parties are about even among women, 44 percent prefer the Republicans, 42 percent the Democrats.
In contrast, thepoll found that among men, Republicans' double-digit advantage hardly changed from their September survey, with 50 percent backing Republicans.
I reached out to our polling guys, Scott Clement and Peyton M. Craighill, for some guidance. They pointed out that in the latest Washington Post/ABC News pollthere was also a similar finding, with Republicans neutralizing Democrats' traditional advantage on the generic ballot among women, 47 percent of whom supported Democrats with 46 percent backing Republicans.
And if you look at the chart below, it matches what happened in the 2010 midterms, when Republicans won big in part because they were able to erase the typical edge that Democrats have among women voters. In 2010, unmarried women did back Democrats, but by slightly smallermargins than usual, and married women leaned more strongly Republican than in past years.
(The data in 2002 had some problems, so we dont have confidence in those numbers).
According to the AP-GfK poll, Republicans have broadly gained ground among women in the last month. And in at least one Senate race, that same trend is apparent. Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner (R)actually led narrowly among women in a Suffolk University poll released Wednesday. While that seems a little suspect, other polling has also shown himnarrowing the gap among womento varying degrees -- enough to show a slight lead in the overall race.
But, there are other contested races where Democrats are holding strong among women. In New Hampshire, for instance, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) still holds a steady 10-point lead among women over Scott Brown in the latest CNN/ORC poll. She led by nine among women in another poll this week, from Suffolk.
The Democratic advantage with women is also shows up in a new Pew poll, which projects a better forecast for Democrats on the generic ballot:
So, what do we make of this? For Democrats, a clear advantage among women in both presidential and midterm elections has just been a fact of life -- and a requirement for winning. But in 2010 they saw a reversal.
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The Fix: Are Democrats losing their edge among women?