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Republicans Threatening Congressional Seats Long Held by Democrats
The Ledger ^ | April 23, 2010 | By JEFF ZELENY & ADAM NAGOURNEY

Posted on 04/24/2010 4:08:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

ASHLAND, Wis. | 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010midterms; davidobey; gopcomeback
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To: Jet Jaguar; Diana in Wisconsin

Bump...


21 posted on 04/24/2010 4:36:38 PM PDT by tubebender (I LOVE COOKING WITH WINE, sometimes I even put it in the food...)
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To: Jet Jaguar

November will be very interesting.


22 posted on 04/24/2010 4:37:31 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: sergeantdave

I bet 60% of his voters are single stupid females.”

Who attend the UW in Madison or at one of the satellite campuses.


23 posted on 04/24/2010 4:39:07 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Jet Jaguar

Party like it’s 1994.


24 posted on 04/24/2010 4:50:48 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: Parley Baer

Obey is about as pleasant as Harry Weed.


25 posted on 04/24/2010 4:52:31 PM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Let’s have CONSERVATIVE control, not republicans.


26 posted on 04/24/2010 4:53:50 PM PDT by MannMade (This country was not founded by sissies, but now they are everywhere.)
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To: DownInFlames
“It’s going to be a route. Nuff said.”

I am not that optimistic. 0 Rasmussen numbers are <10 right now. And he has the SEIU/ACORN fraudulent vote gang ready to go.

27 posted on 04/24/2010 4:55:23 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat
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To: ridesthemiles

“Who attend the UW in Madison or at one of the satellite campuses.”

Don’t need to tell me about that.

Anyway, how’s the bluegill fishing in Wisconsin this spring? I love bluegill panfish eating...

Someday, I need to post the picture of me at 8-years-old after pop gave me a fishing pole and said, “Kid, you’re on your own.” I think I caught 84 bluegills in one morning, most under four-inches length. Then he told me to gut, scale and clean them. Believe it or not, by the time I got done I fed my entire family.

From there, I went onto walleye fishing.


28 posted on 04/24/2010 4:56:10 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: KingLudd

I don’t know, but his wife can eat no lean.


29 posted on 04/24/2010 4:59:02 PM PDT by csmusaret (If it sounds like Marx and acts like Stalin, it must be Obama!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Reps. John Spratt, you’ll eat mo more fatt.


30 posted on 04/24/2010 5:01:08 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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To: Windflier

They made their bed. They slept with Obama.

Remember in November.


31 posted on 04/24/2010 5:03:47 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Jet Jaguar

I hope the DNC has to fight for every seat up. I want to see them run through all of their money and not be able to rebuild it in time for 2012!


32 posted on 04/24/2010 5:07:02 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oh that is good! LOL


33 posted on 04/24/2010 5:08:10 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chooseascreennamepat

“Rasmussen numbers are <10 right now. And he has the SEIU/ACORN fraudulent vote gang ready to go.”
*****

True, but I think the polls are on the low side, and that he’s doing much worse than -10.


34 posted on 04/24/2010 5:17:10 PM PDT by Canedawg (I'm not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ...
Rep. David Obey has won 21 straight races...

That right there, IMHO, is one of the biggest problems Washington faces: entrenched incumbents.

“Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina, who oversees the Budget Committee, and Ike Skelton of Missouri, who runs the Armed Services Committee, have been warned by party leaders to step up the intensity of their campaigns to help preserve the Democratic majority.”

Speaking of encumbents:

South Carolina
Ping

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35 posted on 04/24/2010 5:29:43 PM PDT by upchuck (Get the Moslem rookie, and his Wookie, out of the White House!)
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To: upchuck

Hey hey, ho ho, the political class has got to go.


36 posted on 04/24/2010 5:32:23 PM PDT by comps4spice (The political class IS the problem.)
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To: Venturer
Remember in November.

It'll be a November to remember. That's for darn sure.

37 posted on 04/24/2010 5:33:46 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I have a friend who continually despairs over Democrat election fraud and seemingly limitless money.

My take on it is that they have finite assets, the same as anyone else. The facts that they could not win or even steal the elections in New Jersey and Massachussetts encourages me to think their resources were very depleted getting bat-ears into office.

To have to defend on so many fronts spreads their resources even thinner.

The principle threat would appear to be election fraud.

How is that countered and thwarted?


38 posted on 04/24/2010 5:59:21 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Is it sedition to defy usurpation?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

You were elected for change!

Don’t listen to those miserable voters!


39 posted on 04/24/2010 6:17:56 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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