Posted on 04/24/2010 8:28:22 PM PDT by kcvl
Winds of change seen not only in places where posts often change hands.
Rep. David Obey has won 21 straight races, easily prevailing through wars and economic crises that have spanned presidencies from Nixon to Obama. Yet the discontent with Washington surging through politics is now threatening not only his seat but Democratic control of Congress.
Obey is one of nearly a dozen well-established House Democrats who are bracing for something they rarely face: serious competition. Their predicament is the latest sign of distress for their party and underlines why Republicans are confident of big gains in November, and perhaps even winning back the House.
The fight for the midterm elections is not confined to traditional battlegrounds, where Republicans and Democrats often swap seats every few cycles. In the Senate, Democrats are struggling to hold on to, among others, seats once held by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Democrats are preparing to lose as many as 30 House seats - including a wave of first-term members - and Republicans have expanded their sights to places where political challenges seldom develop.
"It's not a lifetime appointment," said Sean Duffy, a Republican district attorney here in the north woods of Wisconsin, where he has established himself as one of the most aggressive challengers to Obey since the Democrat went to Washington in 1969. "There are changes in this country going on and people aren't happy."
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It'd be good if all congresscritters remembered this.
Read my tag line !!
100 Seats!!
That last time America saw a change in power of this scope, was when the southern delegation walked out to form their own nation.
“Republicans Threatening Congressional Seats Long Held by Democrats”
If it was the reverse do you think you would have seen the word “threatning” anywhere in the headline or article?
If there was any justice in the world, it’d be a 200 seat House landlide, they’d elect Mike Pence or Paul Ryan Speaker, and we’d repeal the past two years.
We can put it in cruise control,
but that doesn’t mean we can coast
If Democrats were under discussion they would be described as "making inroads" into Republican territory or "actively contesting" or "winning the people over" with their programs and political views.
100 Seats!!
That last time America saw a change in power of this scope, was when the southern delegation walked out to form their own nation.
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It hasn’t been that long, 1894 saw more than 100 seats change hands.
And the back to back elections of 1918 and especially 1920 combined had nearly that many switch.
...well they just need to remind everyone that they passed Healthcare.
did u use the word threatening? You advocating violence? OMG
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It’s the Democrats own fault. They got themselves elected as “centrists” and have slid left ever since.
There is no such animal as a Moderate Democrat. When the chips are down, he’s a Democrat first and a Moderate a distant second.
There’s no such animal as a Liberal Republican. When the chips are down, he’s a Liberal first and a Republican a distant second.
Both parties have two choices: Either a Congress person is a Marxist or he’s a Patriot. There can be no “moderate” or “liberal” or even “conservative” any longer. Just two choices . . . Marxist or Patriot.
You are right! We need to scold and lecture JEFF ZELENY
& ADAM NAGOURNEY for inciting hatred!
“And the back to back elections of 1918 and especially 1920 combined had nearly that many switch.”
THAT was a reaction to the FIRST Progressive President (Obama is the 3rd/4th depending your bookkeeping). Woodrow Wilson ran, as a College Professor, in 1912; among other things, he pledged to keep the U.S. out of the likely war in Europe. Instead, he got the U.S. directly into WWI with a great loss of American lives.
We'll we can dream...
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