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Blue Trickle: We keep hearing from the discredited legacy media and their “polls” that Democratic voters are so jazzed about showing up to the polls in November they’re going to help their party usher in a massive blue wave, the first step toward the objective of impeaching POTUS Donald Trump for…something. But a new assessment from a CBS News pollster — one of the few who projected a Trump electoral victory in 2016 — is really bad news for the party of the unhinged, deranged, and perpetually angry.

On new polls suggesting that the Republicans could be, in the words of some analysts, in free fallLet me first say I do think that we are in a very challenging environment. I think that the situation with [Rep. Mark] Foley has made it even more challenging, but ... I have not seen a significant impact in most of the races around the country and I certainly haven't seen a free fall. The three issues that I think we're dealing with [in the polls]: first of all is the partisanship of the electorate. In the last 25 years, the electorate...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - On issues from global warming to corporate reform, public pension funds controlled by union officials and Democrats in states carried by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry increasingly see themselves as counterweights to Republican control of the nation's political agenda. As Bush plans a second term, multibillion-dollar investment funds - especially in so-called "blue states" such as California, New York, Connecticut and Illinois - have already forged alternate agendas on clean energy, the environment, executive pay, even gay marriage rights that can run counter to "red state" values. They also view themselves as an increasingly important check on...

This year's mid-term elections could hand the GOP control of the Senate a full two months before the new Congress is sworn in - even if Republicans fail to win an overall majority, according to Capitol Hill's political bible Roll Call. If Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo) loses her reelection bid to Republican challenger Jim Talent, the Republicans intend to take control right away, since that's what the rules allow. Carnahan was only selected to fill her seat until someone could be elected to replace her late husband. Under Missouri law, Talent could be sworn in immediately following the election. That...