The Plumline
President Obama’s allies on the left — AFSCME and the labor-backed Americans United for Change — will launch a TV ad today praising Obama’s stimulus package only hours after the President signs it today.
The ad will utilize footage from today’s signing ceremonyto promote the bill and hail its benefits, according to Americans United for Change chief Brad Woodhouse. Obama is set to sign the bill this afternoon in Denver.
CQ Politics
The Republicans’ disastrous 2008 national Senate campaign isn’t quite over, as there is no decision yet in the Minnesota cliffhanger race between GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic entertainer Al Franken.
But GOP officials will have little time to tend their wounds before gearing up for the 2010 elections, as they seek to reverse some of the damage from a 2006 campaign that saw them lose six seats and their Senate majority, and the elections this year in which they lost at least seven more seats, pending the outcome in that Minnesota race.
Republicans’ hopes for a significant comeback in 2010 will depend heavily on whether the dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush , and the Republicans in general, shifts to the new administration of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democrats who now dominate both chambers of Congress.
CQ PoliticsAs the Democrats prepare to defend their newly robust Senate majority in the 2010 elections, it would be an understatement to say that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez has a tough act to follow as the new chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
Charles E. Schumer , who is up for a third term in New York in the upcoming elections, headed the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm during a 2006 campaign that produced a six-seat gain and a narrow majority for the party, and a 2008 campaign that expanded the party’s edge by a whopping gain of at least seven seats, with the cliffhanger Minnesota contest between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic entertainer Al Franken still undecided.
The Boston Globe
Jim Grimes
WHATEVER side you were on in the presidential election, there is one thing
everyone can agree on.
Barack Obama won.
This time no one is talking about butterfly ballots in Florida or
skullduggery in Ohio. We chose a president without the intervention of the
courts. The system worked.
But what about next time?
Paul Steinhauser
But a new national poll suggests why a majority of voters didn't seem to buy that argument, as Barack Obama beat McCain in the presidential election and the Democrats made major gains in both the House, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate, under Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Congressional Quarterly
A handful of political groups are continuing to wage heated election battles in a couple of undecided House and Senate races, even though most of the political establishment has turned its attention to the transitions taking place at the White House and in Congress.
Washington TimesTom DeLay
OP-ED
When it comes to fundraising, organization and ground game, we Republicans got whipped.
Now, Republicans may criticize Sen. Barack Obama for breaking his promise to accept public funding and play by the established rules, but that doesn't take us too far. We shouldn't kid ourselves: Democrats breaking this precedent had nothing to do with their campaign-finance principles, and everything to do with the fact they could afford to. Mr. McCain could never have competed this fall without the federal funds and, in the end, Mr. Obama simply smothered McCain, outspending him in battleground states by three-to-one, with plenty left over to compete in even Republican-leaning areas.
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Wisconsin State Journal
MARK PITSCH
A Dane County circuit judge today dismissed a lawsuit by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to require the state elections agency to check voter registrations against other state databases dating to 2006, which critics said could have thrown hundreds of thousands of registrations into doubt.Judge Maryann Sumi said Van Hollen failed to state an adequate claim for bringing the lawsuit and noted that state law has consistently favored protecting citizens' right to vote. Sumi also said that Van Hollen did not have standing to bring the lawsuit.
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