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Mikulski, Senate Democrats Lead Charge for Paycheck Fairness
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) was joined by the Senate Democratic Caucus in urging the Senate to take up and pass the Paychec...
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Are Democrats In A Political Party Or An Organized Crime Gang? ROOT FOR AMERICA
Democrat politicians are falling like flies. They are being arrested all over this country. You #39;d almost think the Democratic Party was one big widespread or...
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A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Democrats have lost their edge over Republicans in a generic ballot for the 2014 midterms.
The poll, which surveyed adults across the country in late March, found that the two parties are in a dead heat when it comes to the upcoming elections. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they would vote for Democrats, compared to 37 percent who preferred Republicans.
As recently as January, Democrats beat Republicans on that question with 39 percent to the GOP's 32 percent. That could spell bad news for Democrats hoping to retain the Senate despite several close races that could cost them their majority.
Some of the trouble is with registered voters who are interested in politics. Republicans win with that group by a margin of 14 percentage points, 51 percent to 37 percent. As recently as January, 42 percent preferred Democrats and 45 percent preferred Republicans.
Democrats often have trouble turning out large numbers of supporters in midterm elections despite their success in the past two presidential contests. The enthusiasm gap is something President Obama has warned about.
"The challenge is that our politics in Washington have become so toxic that people just lose faith and finally they just say: 'You know what? I'm not interested, I'm not going to bother, I'm not going to vote,'" the president said at a recent Democratic Congressional Campaign fundraiser in Miami.
"In midterms we get clobbered - either because we don't think it's important or we've become so discouraged about what's happening in Washington that we think it's not worth our while," he said.
Obama's warnings were echoed by his former top strategist, David Axelrod, who tweeted a link to the poll over the weekend, writing, "Every bit of evidence points to stronger GOP turnout in a low turnout [election] this fall. Major hurdle for Ds."
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White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer says the over-7 million enrollees in Obamacare is a good thing, but there's still a lot of work to do.
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Democrats lose their edge ahead of midterm elections, poll finds
For Senate Democrats running this year in Republican-leaning states, their struggle with how to deal with Obamacare's unpopularity left them biting their nails a bit harder after President Obama announced Tuesday that the health care law hit its 7 million enrollment goal.
While the White House continues touting the benefits of the law, polls consistently show more Americans disapprove of Obamacare -- a disconnect that's not helping as Democrats try to fire up voters in their effort to fend off a potential Republican takeover of the Senate.
But at a time when the economy is overwhelmingly viewed as the most important issue that the country faces, Obamacare could be the deciding issue of the midterms if Democrats allow it to be, pollsters and strategists in both parties say.
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GOP pollster Neil Newhouse tells CBS News Democrats will have to defend the health care reform law in the 2014 midterm elections, but they should...
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The White House announced that after a surge of last-minute signups across the country, despite technical difficulties, more than seven million p...
Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, has broken with some in her party by saying that candidates should neither embrace Obamacare nor run away from it -- Democrats should run on a promise to fix it.
"Fix it, don't nix it, if you will. People should talk about the fact that there are parts of Obamacare that work and parts that need to be fixed, and that Democrats will be aggressive about fixing it," Lake told CBS News. "Because we shouldn't start all over again, and we shouldn't cancel the policies of 7 million people."
The Republican budget plan outlined last week by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan gives Democrats an opening, Lake said, much like it did in 2012. Ryan calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, as well as tweaking Medicaid and Medicare, proposals that many Americans don't agree with, Lake argues.
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