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Charitable Giving By State: Are Republicans More Generous Than Democrats, Or Just More Religious?
Charitable Giving By State: Are Republicans More Generous Than Democrats, Or Just More Religious?
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Liberal Democrats call for more Welsh powers
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams has told the national party conference it was time Wales had a "proper parliament". She said the Scottish referendum had been a lesson that people...
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Washington Four weeks before Election Day, the specter of President Obama is everywhere Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. In debate after debate Tuesday, Republicans inserted the unpopular president into the conversation early and often, goading Democratic Senate candidates into distancing themselves from Mr. Obama.
In races where an incumbent Democrat is running for reelection, the attacks were the same: You voted with the president 99 (or 96 or 97) percent of the time. And in races for open seats, Democrats were still portrayed as Obamas best friend.
The answers also came from a cookie-cutter: You are running against me, not President Obama, Democrats replied in lockstep.
In the North Carolina, Sen. Kay Hagan (D) was asked for ways in which she disagrees with Obama and the Democrats, and had no trouble answering: On the use of military force in Syria, she said, I have called on the president to bring that before Congress.
Senator Hagan, locked in a tight race with state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R), also called on Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, expressed disapproval of trade deals that send too many jobs overseas, and said she had voted against my partys budget because it had too deep of cuts to the military.
In Virginia, Sen. Mark Warner (D) also put some distance between himself and Obama, despite the senators comfortable lead against GOP challenger Ed Gillespie. Like Hagan, Senator Warner voiced support for the Keystone pipeline. And he backed offshore drilling in Virginia, as long as the state shares in the revenue.
In West Virginia, underdog candidate Natalie Tennant (D) joined her Republican opponent, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R) in opposing proposed regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency that would tighten standards on coal-burning power plants.
Political handicappers give Republicans a small advantage in their quest to retake control of the Senate, but nobody rules out Democrats chances of hanging on. The good news for both parties Tuesday was that nobody committed any major gaffes. The bad news for Democrats is that Obamas low job approvals hang like an anchor around their necks especially in red states.
Obama invited the distancing himself last week when he declared that his policies are on the ballot on Nov. 4. But Obama was already firmly on the ballot, in spirit if not literally, well before he made that remark.
The news wasnt all bad for the president Tuesday. Sen. Mark Udall (D) of Colorado, facing a stiff challenge from Rep. Cory Gardner (R), deflected efforts to get him to criticize the president. And he offered strong support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the presidents signature initiative.
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Barack who? Democrats flee Obama in Tuesday Senate debates.
Senate Armed Services Committee Member U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) is pursued by reporters after being briefed by military officials about the prisoner exchange that freed Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at the U.S. Capitol June 10, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
In 2008, Senate Democrats managed to strengthen its foothold in the South in part by capitalizing on the excitement that President Obama's campaign generated. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana were re-elected, while Democrat Kay Hagan won her first term in North Carolina. All told, Senate Democrats had a breakthrough year, taking eight seats -- the most they'd won since 1986.
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This year, those same Democrats are on the ballot again, and they're trying to keep up the support of the Democratic base that Mr. Obama helped them build. At the same time, politicians like Landrieu and Hagan know full well that a Southern Democrat can't rely solely on the support of liberal voters, particularly when the president has become so unpopular.
"The Democratic incumbents are trying to find the balance between declaring their independence from President Obama to appeal to voters in the middle but also capturing the energy of the Democratic base who still approves of President Obama," Nathan Gonzales, deputy editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, told CBS News. "It's a tough line to walk."
With four weeks left until Election Day, polling suggests some Southern Democrats are pulling off the balancing act better than others. In the past month, Hagan has gained a slight edge against her Republican challenger, North Carolina House Speaker Thomas Tillis. Pryor, however, appears to be slightly trailing his GOP challenger, Rep. Tom Cotton, while Landrieu is in a hard-fought race against Rep. Bill Cassidy that appears headed for a runoff.
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Meanwhile, Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn is putting up a surprisingly strong challenge in Georgia Republican David Perdue in the open race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Nunn appears to be trailing Perdue, but she is within striking distance in the red state.
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Without Obama, Southern Democrats try to hang on