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Looks Like The Democrats Blew It!
Polls show crushing defeats ahead
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Posted 13 September 2010 - 02:54 PM
September 13, 2010
Interest-Group Spending Drives G.O.P. Lead in Ads
By MICHAEL LUO
Outside groups supporting Republican candidates in House and Senate races across the country have been swamping their Democratic-leaning counterparts on television since early August as the midterm election season has begun heating up.
Driving the disparity in the ad wars has been an array of Republican-oriented organizations that are set up so that they can accept donations of unlimited size from individuals and corporations without having to disclose them. The situation raises the possibility that a relatively small cadre of deep-pocketed donors, unknown to the general public, is shaping the battle for Congress in the early going.
The yawning gap in independent interest group spending is alarming some Democratic officials, who argue that it amounts to an effort on the part of super-wealthy Republican donors, as well as corporate interests, newly emboldened by regulatory changes, to buy the election.
“While each of our campaigns has the resources they need to be competitive, we now face shadow groups putting their thumbs on the scale with undisclosed, unlimited and unregulated donations,” said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
As the primary season ends this week and the general election begins in earnest, the nightmare for the Democrats is that this is just the beginning. Tracking by Democratic media buyers, in fact, shows that other large chunks of television time have been set aside in the coming weeks in key House races by more Republican-leaning groups.
The snapshot of early television spending would seem to be a fulfillment of Democrats’ worst fears after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the Citizens United case in January that lifted a ban on direct corporate spending on political campaigns.
http://www.nytimes.c...agewanted=print
Interest-Group Spending Drives G.O.P. Lead in Ads
By MICHAEL LUO
Outside groups supporting Republican candidates in House and Senate races across the country have been swamping their Democratic-leaning counterparts on television since early August as the midterm election season has begun heating up.
Driving the disparity in the ad wars has been an array of Republican-oriented organizations that are set up so that they can accept donations of unlimited size from individuals and corporations without having to disclose them. The situation raises the possibility that a relatively small cadre of deep-pocketed donors, unknown to the general public, is shaping the battle for Congress in the early going.
The yawning gap in independent interest group spending is alarming some Democratic officials, who argue that it amounts to an effort on the part of super-wealthy Republican donors, as well as corporate interests, newly emboldened by regulatory changes, to buy the election.
“While each of our campaigns has the resources they need to be competitive, we now face shadow groups putting their thumbs on the scale with undisclosed, unlimited and unregulated donations,” said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
As the primary season ends this week and the general election begins in earnest, the nightmare for the Democrats is that this is just the beginning. Tracking by Democratic media buyers, in fact, shows that other large chunks of television time have been set aside in the coming weeks in key House races by more Republican-leaning groups.
The snapshot of early television spending would seem to be a fulfillment of Democrats’ worst fears after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the Citizens United case in January that lifted a ban on direct corporate spending on political campaigns.
http://www.nytimes.c...agewanted=print
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Posted 14 September 2010 - 05:43 AM
Posted on Tue, Sep. 14, 2010
GOP says no deal on tax cuts
Leaders, including Boehner, backed away from comments Boehner made a day earlier.
By James Oliphant and Don Lee
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Republican leaders in Congress on Monday backed away from a possible compromise with the Obama administration over extending expiring Bush-era tax cuts, committing both sides to an election-year battle with huge stakes for the economy.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and others distanced themselves from a statement Sunday by House Republican Leader John A. Boehner that he might agree to let tax relief for the wealthiest Americans expire, as President Obama wants, if that's politically necessary to save middle-class tax cuts.
By the end of the day Monday, Boehner issued a statement dropping his suggestion.
Obama is pushing for a permanent middle-class tax cut, but only if Bush-era cuts for top earners are eliminated. Republicans, in turn, want permanent tax relief for all levels.
The divide is rapidly becoming the marquee issue of the midterm election.
http://www.philly.co...n_tax_cuts.html
GOP says no deal on tax cuts
Leaders, including Boehner, backed away from comments Boehner made a day earlier.
By James Oliphant and Don Lee
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Republican leaders in Congress on Monday backed away from a possible compromise with the Obama administration over extending expiring Bush-era tax cuts, committing both sides to an election-year battle with huge stakes for the economy.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and others distanced themselves from a statement Sunday by House Republican Leader John A. Boehner that he might agree to let tax relief for the wealthiest Americans expire, as President Obama wants, if that's politically necessary to save middle-class tax cuts.
By the end of the day Monday, Boehner issued a statement dropping his suggestion.
Obama is pushing for a permanent middle-class tax cut, but only if Bush-era cuts for top earners are eliminated. Republicans, in turn, want permanent tax relief for all levels.
The divide is rapidly becoming the marquee issue of the midterm election.
http://www.philly.co...n_tax_cuts.html
