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...chairs of the Democrats' House and Senate campaign committees, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, announced a joint closing theme for the party on Monday morning: "Time for a New Direction on Iraq," and urged their voters to send a message rejecting what Emanuel calls "the Bush-Rumsfeld strategy in Iraq." Democrats say they were buoyed over the weekend by an Army Times editorial calling for Rumsfeld's resignation, as well as excerpts from an upcoming Vanity Fair article quoting key neoconservatives expressing pessimism about Iraq. "These pieces got us away from the broken...
...Arizona, Kyl would only lose in a national typhoon. But Democrats are acting confident and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is touting an "expanding Senate playing field." Pederson, the Democrat, has mounted an attack focusing on Iraq and special interests. The conservative Kyl has focused on "Arizona accomplishments" and expertise on terrorism...
...response was immediate and lethal: an ad claiming that Corker's construction company had employed illegal aliens. In fact, a Corker work site had been raided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Rapid response is a rule I set down for all our candidates this year," says Senator Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). "If you want [financial] support from us, you have to respond within 24 hours after you've been attacked...
...Obviously, John Kerry's lamblike response to the attacks on his character during the 2004 presidential campaign, especially those emanating from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is very much on Democrats' minds in 2006. But Schumer learned the lesson in his Senate race against Alfonse D'Amato in 1998. "Fonzi attacked me for being soft on crime, and we came right back at him with a tough series of ads with the tagline 'Alfonse D'Amato: too many lies for too long.'" Schumer says that perhaps the most important ad run by a Democrat this year appeared in July...
...approval in most polls. But even Republicans fret their loyalists have been discouraged by the Mark Foley scandal, and can't match the Democrats in passion. That fervor is being fueled by the bare-knuckled veterans who are heading up their House and Senate campaigns--New York Senator Charles Schumer and Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel--who have been urging their candidates to punch back at Bush directly on national security. And they have. In Rhode Island, Democratic Senate nominee Sheldon Whitehouse has been running an ad in which he says, "We need to send a clear signal that, folks...