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...That too was an option, of course. The Democrats might have been safer just staying away from an issue that is hurting Republicans plenty without their help. But the Democrats have decided they need to carve out a defensible position on Iraq going into mid-term elections this fall - which is why Reid of Nevada convened the meetings to begin with...
...challenger to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Alabama, where voters are expected to overwhelmingly approve a referendum banning gay marriage, these election results will be scrutinzed by political observers for clues as to where the country is heading - and whether the Republicans will face trouble in this November's mid-term elections...
...national numbers, moderate House Republicans like New York's Peter King, who has been a strong supporter of the House border-security-only approach, say the people who call their offices and show up at town halls want tighter restrictions on immigration. Congressional Republicans are worried that in a mid-term election, where voter turnout is usually much lower than for a presidential year, keeping core Republican supporters motivated is key. And according to recent poll results from the Pew Research Center, 19% of Republicans cite immigration as the country's biggest problem, while only 9% of independents...
...With the Democrats declaring this year's mid-term elections a referendum on Republican corruption, you would have expected a full-scale Republican counterattack against Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson after the FBI raided his offices Saturday night. But instead, the latest developments in the unfolding Jefferson saga have brought the two parties together for once, with both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress agreeing on one thing: FBI raids on their offices are bad and dangerous things...
...hover in the mid-30s (although that's not bad compared to the GOP-controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House staff after the Iran-Contra affair and Bill Clinton reached out to Dick Morris, the political consultant, after the Democrats' whipping in the 1994 mid-term elections...