Democrats Going Into Election Day Feeling Good – Video
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Democrats keeping hope alive
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Washington (CNN) -- Democrats have a message for voters during the final, frenzied day of campaigning: All is not lost.
Party leaders insist they can still hold onto the Senate -- their last bastion of power on Capitol Hill -- and are spending the remaining hours before the polls open on Tuesday trying to convince their voters not to give up.
"I don't agree with the oddsmakers," Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. "I predict we're gonna ... keep the Senate."
Everything would have to break for Democrats just right for Biden's optimism to carry the day. New polls in states that Democrats must win if they have any hope of keeping the Senate aren't promising.
In New Hampshire, a WMUR poll released Sunday shows Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican challenger Scott Brown in a deeply competitive race. The poll puts Shaheen's support at 46% with Brown at 43%. The race narrows further -- with Shaheen at 47% against Brown at 45% -- once undecided voters are asked who they are most likely to support.
The numbers are troubling for Democrats because a WMUR poll just a few days earlier showed Shaheen leading Brown 50% to 42%.
A Quinnipiac University poll in Iowa shows the Senate race there in a dead heat, with Democrat Bruce Braley and Republican Joni Ernst at 47%. That could provide some comfort to Democrats after a Des Moines Register poll had Ernst up by 7 points over the weekend.
Though Republicans appear on track to take the Senate majority for the first time in nearly a decade, polls can be wrong and might miss important shifts in the electorate during the final hours of the election.
But veteran Republican power broker Haley Barbour told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper," that it was looking good for his side.
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Election results will measure Democrats' progress vs. GOP in Texas
AUSTIN It was never going to be easy for Wendy Davis and the Democrats to win in Texas this year or particularly hard for Greg Abbott and the GOP to beat them.
Supporters hoped Davis would usher in a Democratic renaissance in Texas. But Republicans see history, fate and a streak of cowboy conservatism as keys to sustaining two decades of GOP dominance.
Texas Democrats publicly insist they can pull off a surprising victory Tuesday. But most party strategists and leaders quietly acknowledge that after decades of decline, the best they can realistically hope for is to make progress toward being competitive in 2018, or even 2022.
So barring a miracle, what would count as a win that Democrats could build on?
Victory for Democrats would be if any of their statewide candidates lose by single digits. That would be a sign of significant progress, said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University. I dont think thats going to happen.
Heres another measure much discussed in Democratic and Republican political circles: 42 percent.
Thats the share of the vote that Democrat Bill White got in the last governors race, in 2010, when he lost to Rick Perry by 12 points.
If Davis and the much-ballyhooed voter mobilization efforts of Battleground Texas push her percentage to, say, 45 or 46 percent of the vote, it will be evidence that reliably red-state Texas might become competitive.
Weve built the foundation, said Jeremy Bird, a former Obama campaign adviser who helped create Battleground Texas.
But a double-digit Davis loss would damage the credibility of Battleground Texas, especially among its big-dollar donors, and set back Democratic organizational hopes in Texas.
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Colorado Democrats Lean On Heavy-Hitter In Bill Clinton – Video
Colorado Democrats Lean On Heavy-Hitter In Bill Clinton
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Democrats, the Ebola-Crats – Video
Democrats, the Ebola-Crats
The mid-term elections in the USA the Ebola-Crats (Democratic Party DNC) should be voted out of office from dog catchers to senators. In a press conference...
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