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Although our current projection continues to show that the Democrats will retain control of the U.S. Senate (52-48), we have now downgraded their chances in the following three states: Connecticut (D-Dodd, retiring) Washington (D-Murray) Wisconsin (D-Feingold) Each race has moved from DEM HOLD to LEAN DEM HOLD.

The Weekly Standard has come out and bashed J Street and its list of early 2010 endorsements. Basically it boils down to this: if J Street is endorsing them, we GOPers should not: Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) Rep. Charles Boustany (LA-07) Rep. Michael Capuano (MA-08) Rep. Lois Capps (CA-23) Rep. Russ Carnahan (MO-03) Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09) Rep. Gerry Connolly (VA-11) Rep. Susan Davis (CA-53) Rep. William Delahunt (MA-10) Rep. Donna Edwards (MD-04) Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-05), Sen. Russ Feingold (WI) Rep. Bob Filner (CA-51) Rep. Barney Frank (MA-04) Rep. Charles Gonzalez (TX-20) Rep. Deborah Halvorson (IL-11) Rep. Jim Himes...

Normally safe Democratic seats could be takenThe GOP is within striking distance of taking over the U.S. Senate in 2011. If you believe our recent analysis (or that of Larry Sabato), the GOP would find itself with 48 seats in the Upper Chamber versus 52 for the Dems, if the election were held today. However, why should the party stop there? With Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, nothing seems impossible and therefore, the party faithful should go full-steam ahead to help take back our country by focusing also on the following races: CaliforniaThe despicable Barbara Boxer is up for re-election...

Massachusetts voters have created a political upheaval not seen in recent memory. However, now that the red, white and blue balloons in Boston have come down, it’s time for Republicans to have a reality check. Scott Brown is a moderate Republican, at best There once was a time when the Republican Party was truly a big tent, in the sense that conservative and moderates a like worked together for the good of the country and to a lesser extent, for the party. However, in recent years, as the balance of power in Washington got so close between Republicans and Democrats,...

What happened in the Bay State had less to do with ideology and more to do with a realization that our nation’s leaders have become tone-deaf at best, and downright enemies of this country that they’ve been given a chance to govern, at worst. What made President Obama a successful presidential candidate in 2008 was his message of hope, change and an understanding that in America, playing just around the political center was the best place to govern. After all, Candidate Obama promised that in his Washington, both sides would get a seat at the table and compromise would be...

CURRENT COUNT HAS GOP WITH 48 SEATS COME JANUARY 2011With Scott Brown almost certain to join the U.S. Senate later this week as the GOP's 41st member, the road ahead is still going to be tough for the minority party to regain the majority in November. In our latest Senate analysis, we now see the Democrats retaining their majority with 52 seats, versus 48 for the GOP. In the process, we now see Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Colorado, Delaware and Illinois moving to the GOP, with no GOP seats headed to the donkey party. However, three Democrat seats are...

If Barack Obama was Bill Clinton, he would hope for GOP victories tomorrow in Massachusetts and nationally in November. After all, when the GOP took over both Houses of Congress in 1994, Democrat Clinton’s reelection chances for 1996 became that much better. Recall that in 1992, American voters gave the Democrats full control of both the White House and of Congress for the first since 1978. With this as a back-drop, Clinton and the Democrats in Congress tried to push Hillary-Care down our throats at their own peril. However, once Newt Gingrich in the House, and Bob Dole in the...

So, now the president is going to get combative. Bring it on, Mr. President. Rather than be humbled by the race they are about to lose in Massachusetts, the good folks at Politico are reporting that President Obama will give a “combative response” to a likely GOP victory tonight in the Bay State. “The response will not be to do incremental things and try to salvage a few seats in the fall,” a presidential adviser said. “The best political route also happens to be the boldest rhetorical route, which is to go out and fight and let the chips fall...

Nobel laureate, 39th president and failed human being, Jimmy Carter is at it again. Nearly thirty years removed from public life, the former president has decided to step into the Joe Wilson flap and with it exposes himself – again, to his own failures. Let’s be clear: Carter was arguably the worst president of the 20th century. Through a domestic policy highly shaded with socialism and a foreign policy of appeasement, Carter, in four years in office nearly ruined this nation’s economy and nearly gave the Soviet Union a new lease on life, while nearly killing the state of Israel....

Ted Kennedy has died after a long battle against brain cancer. While this site - and many Americans - will not mourn this loss, we still extend our condolences to Kennedy's family. Losing a brother, uncle, cousin or friend is never easy and we pray that Kennedy's family will find comfort in their time of sorrow. With that being said, Kennedy's death drops from the scene one of the more horrific and needlessly glorified politicians of the past forty years. If ANY of his brothers would have outlived him, Ted's political career would have been moribund at best. However, after...

Kudos to Quinn & Rose for highlighting Liberal Fasism, published in the Canadian Free Press: by Joy TizHistory is the sum total of things that could have been avoided” - Konrad Adenauer, First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany. I can remember the feeling I had when he spoke. At last, I said, here’s somebody who can get us out of this mess. (Campbell, Susan Bartoletti. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 2005, Pg. 19. ) He was so convincing on the speaker’s platform and appeared to be so sincere in what he...

by Ted TallyWith President Obama's dream of a single-payer healthcare system going down in flames, it is now time for our elected leaders to look at the system again, with a goal of providing a better overall healthcare system for all. While those of us on the right continue to attend town hall meetings to let our voices be heard (and they have been) to kill socialized medicine, that does not discount the very fact that some reform is necessary. However, responsible reform is what is needed, not the pie-in-the-sky plan sponsored by the nation’s liberal leaders. In a nation...

In our first-in-a-series "Obama Points", we calculate that President Barack Obama has a 50.8 percent chance of being reelected in 2012. Our analysis weights recent data, weighing polling by 40 percent, direction of country by 30 percent and consumer confidence by 30 percent. For more information, please see how we calculate our numbers. The next update will be released on August 31, 2009. In 2003, the GOPNation.com began a series called Bush Points which used current data to predict whether President George W. Bush would be reelected in 2004. In the end, our prediction of a Bush reelection was secure....

Former Sen. John Edwards (D) is expected to admit that he is the father of a child born by his former mistress. So ends one of the most shameful political story in recent memory, as it ends a career. Edwards - who ran for president in 2004 and in 2008 (and was John Kerry's 2004 running mate) - was supposed to be the Democrat's best hope (before Barack Obama), in the model of Robert F. Kennedy. However, as his wife battled inoperable breast cancer, stories began swirling during the 2008 campaign that the former Senator at a love-child with a...

Last night, we highlighted the completed ineptness of Rep. John Dingell (the "Dean of the House) of Michigan. Today, he played the race card when criticizing those against socialized medicine. Appearing on the ultra-liberal, but seldom watched Ed Schultz's show, Dingell compared his foes to the Klu Klux clan. Really, this man needs to read his health care bill and figure out how he can die with dignity, because the old man is completely out-of-touch with the real world. The good people of Michigan should get rid of this guy and give someone else a chance.

<p>USA Today takes the cake for allowing the publication of the following editorial in its pages this morning by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. Comments after.</p>

A large part of the American public likes to sit in the center of politics and in doing so, typically don’t follow Washington’s daily play-by-play. Rather, while those of us who are obsessed with elections and politics in general, 24/7 discuss and sift through poll numbers, upcoming races and the like, no matter when the next election, most Americans are content with living their lives and most times only follow politics right prior to an upcoming election. And regardless of party, most Americans find themselves supporting the man who is president, if not his policies, in the name of civility...

New York TimesObama Setting Out to Put Brighter Face on Economy. Unemployment rising, GDP tanking, the nation's deficit four times higher than in January, but hey, this is a Democratic administration we're talking about, so Happy Days are Here Again! While the article itself is actually harder on Obama than I have seen the Times in recent months, the headline is pure spin, plain and simple. During the Bush administration, the headline would surely read something like this: "Bush blind to worsening economy." MSNBC.comObama's promises a work in progress. The President has been in office for nearly seven months, during...

President Obama sent out the following email, which we discuss below: Dear Friend, If you’re like most Americans, there’s nothing more important to you about health care than peace of mind. Given the status quo, that’s understandable. The current system often denies insurance due to pre-existing conditions, charges steep out-of-pocket fees – and sometimes isn’t there at all if you become seriously ill. It’s time to fix our unsustainable insurance system and create a new foundation for health care security. That means guaranteeing your health care security and stability with eight basic consumer protections: No discrimination for pre-existing conditions No...

He was born in Hawaii. Get over it. (Unless he wasn't, of course.) While I would personally love knowing (as 100 percent fact) that our Dear Leader was, in fact, not born in the United States, that reality is not going to happen. First, there is absolutely no way of knowing what (if anything) happened to President Obama's original birth certificate. If, the truth is what the State of Hawaii says it is, and the state simply misplaced, destroyed or left fall-into-the trash the original, and then issued a replacement, there is no way to confirm or deny this 'fact.'...