O #39;Reilly: People Vote Democrat Because Of #39;Emotion #39;
Bill O #39;Reilly found it hard to believe that despite so much public opposition to the direction the country #39;s going in, there are still people who support the Democrats. But he believes...
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. One of the most famous losers in recent U.S. politics is back on the campaign trail in Massachusetts.
It is not going as well as she had hoped.
Let me tell you something: Its a close race. And it is going to be very close on Election Day, Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee for governor, told a crowd of about 80. For the second time in five years, Coakley was pleading for support trying desperately to beat a Republican in a state dominated by Democrats.
I need your help, Coakley said.
At that, for the first time during her stump speech, they cheered.
Four years ago, Coakley achieved unwanted national fame for managing to lose the seemingly unlosable race to replace a late Democratic icon, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. That campaign was a short, intense clinic in bungling: Coakley took a vacation in mid-campaign. She blasphemed a Red Sox icon who had supported her opponent, calling him a Yankees fan. And she didnt attack Republican challenger Scott Brown until he had surged in the polls, helped by voter unhappiness with President Obamas health-care bill.
Today, Coakley still the Massachusetts attorney general has a chance to redeem her reputation by becoming the states first elected female governor.
In this campaign, supporters say, Coakley has applied the lessons of that earlier disaster. She is shaking more hands, calling herself the outsider and aggressively attacking her Republican opponent as a coldhearted number-cruncher.
Nevertheless, the race is still effectively tied, with two weeks left.
Again, Coakley has been held back by a subdued campaign persona and a thin political agenda. And again by a perception that her party takes this seat and this state for granted.
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David Perdue took the cheap and easy route.
The Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, like Republican candidates in most other competitive races, calculated that the surest road to victory was to tie his opponent, in this case Democrat Michelle Nunn, to President Obama.
The president himself said, make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot, Perdue said in a TV ad last week. As a photo of Obama with Nunn filled the screen, Perdue continued: Thats why he wants her in the Senate.
It was typical of Perdues campaign strategy of trying to run against Obama. What was not typical was Nunns response: She ran a spot of her own, featuring the same photo of herself with Obama.
Have you seen this picture? she asks viewers. Its the one David Perdue has used to try and attack me in this campaign. As the image shifts to a photo of George H.W. Bush with his hand on her shoulder, Nunn goes on: But what he doesnt tell you is that it was taken at an event honoring President Bush, who I worked for as CEO of his Points of Light Foundation. Throughout my career Ive been able to work with Republicans and Democrats, and thats the same approach Ill bring to the U.S. Senate.
Nunn, daughter of the legendary Senate Democratic centrist Sam Nunn, may yet lose the race. But she is doing far better than expected in her run despite the hostile year and terrain for Democrats. A big reason for this: Shes showing authenticity and courage at a time when both are in short supply among Democratic candidates.
Nunns comfort in her own skin is in sharp contrast to other Democrats on the ballot, who are making awkward maneuvers to distance themselves from Obama and much of the Democratic Party.
In Kentucky, Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes ran an ad declaring Im not Barack Obama. In Louisiana, an ad from Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu showed her saying the administrations policies are simply wrong on oil and gas production.
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) boasted in an ad that he took on Obama on Arctic oil production and voted against President Obamas trillion-dollar tax increase. (Actually, the vote was a Republican stunt.) Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) bragged of opposing gun restrictions Obama favored, proclaiming, No one from New York or Washington tells me what to do.
And then theres Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) who skipped an Obama visit to his state and made the absurd claim that, at the White House, the last person they want to see coming is me.
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Democratic challenger Jonathan Barfield Jr. is in for an uphill battle to unseat Republican David Rouzer in the U.S. House of Representatives' 7th District, a political analyst says.
"With 2014 election trends tending to favor Republicans, it would be even harder for a Democrat to win this year," said Mitch Kokai, political analyst for the John Locke Foundation, a small-government conservative think tank in Raleigh.
"That's why the real fight in this year's race took place during the Republican primary, as David Rouzer had to fight off a challenge from New Hanover County Board of Commissioners Chairman Woody White."
In May, Rouzer was the top Republican vote-getter, edging out White by about 5,700 votes. Now Rouzer, of Benson, and Barfield, of Wilmington, are campaigning for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 7th District.
"Going into the campaign, all the stars aligned in favor of the Republican seeking North Carolina's 7th District Congressional seat," Kokai said. "Mike McIntyre, a long-serving moderate-to-conservative Democratic incumbent with no major negative baggage, was barely able to win re-election in 2012, which was a relatively good year for Democrats nationally."
Rouzer narrowly lost a bid for that seat to McIntyre in 2012.
McIntyre, a Democrat, served nine terms since taking office in 1997. In January, he announced that he would retire at the end of his term.
The 7th District covers Duplin, Sampson, Johnston, Bladen, Columbus and Brunswick counties. It also covers portions of Lenoir, Cumberland, Hoke, Robeson, New Hanover and Pender counties.
The district was redrawn after the 2010 Census.
Despite the political outlook, Barfield said he is focused on winning the race.
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Eau Claire, WI (WEAU) -- With the November 4th elections less than two weeks away both democrats and republicans are busy urging voters to head to the polls.
Election specialist Cindy Anderson says the city of Eau Claire has had a rush of people heading to city hall since in-person absentee voting started Monday, with more than 700 hundred voters so far.
Anderson says, It's a convenience factor for voters, they can come in ahead of time and get their voting taken care of.
While Anderson has been busy assisting voters, the Eau Claire democratic and republican parties are working to make sure voters also head to the polls on November 4th.
"We've had just overwhelming support coming from the community, says Eau Claire republican Josh Zdroik. We have volunteers coming in on a daily basis to both make phone calls and knock on doors in support of the governor.
Zdroik says the party has been working around the clock to drum up support for Governor Scott Walker.
Eau Claire democrat Beverly Wickstrom says they've also been doing the same in support of candidate Mary Burke.
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