Watch u meam WE? Where is the evidence there was any kind of trade off between Obama and Pelosie by Dems? The facts are the Rethugs decided instead of attacking Obama, because he was so popular they would focus their lies, distortions and smears on both Reid and Pelosie instead. Then with the advent of the Fox fueled media  frenzy over the phoney tea Party they went after all to these honorable Democrats. Right! So now they are all wearing rethuglican targets on their back. The wingnuts have pushed propaganda so effectively thay have folks like you, a Progressive actually spouting this kind of nonsense.

Yeah, what about the other senior leaders of the party that fucked up the last couple of years? Obama was just one of them.

That is correct. The Democratic party is not losing control of the Senate.

It would be a new this cycle, if the projection based on polling in the House turns out to be predictive. However, there are so few of the individual polls that are not full of motive and investment, that I don't believe they are too reliable. To me, they seem more like a pack (Sabato, Cook, Silver, Stu) that goes out of their way to be the same.

The trend shows a blowout of historical proportions, and that's what I'll go with if there's not any change (and there could be-- lets see the last ads).

Don't you dare attack a Democrat for getting a vote on climate change. The rethugs got you brain washed? It's the economy stupid lets keep it there shall we.

I have followed politics hard since '00 and have never thought he, or any other pollster, to be the in tank.   Now I am not so sure.   The guy is out there in a lot of polling.  He is either a genious with his ROBO polling, or a whack job ... or worse, a sell out.

But are they the English or the French?

Ed Beckman is right. Nobody has ever scared me away from voting in the past - and nobody will , this Nov. 2. I think he's hit the nail on the head.

Check this out.

1.  16 different tax breaks and supports for small business owners - myself included . These were left lying on the ground for eight years.

2. The SBIR reauthorization. Small business employes 86% of all scientists and engineers. The Democrats got this bill reauthorized after an insane game of pass the buck was played by the so called business friendly GOP - one in which the Department of Defense was so incensed, they decided to pass their own bill - so that the contractors working on weapons could keep working without interruption.

3. Student loans are more affordable  -  Obama totally reversed a bunch if fat cat stuff for the banks the Bush Republicans had in play. The loans cost the government less, and they are cheaper for the students to pay down.  Students everywhere should cheer this one. It's huge.

4. A massive reform of healthcare, that spends nearly one in six american dollars every single day.  More people are covered, better coverage, and less costs for everyone up and down the food chain. The out-of-control HMO companies are reigned in despite spending literally 2 million dollars a day trying to lobby this down. They're still spending the money. Be careful where it's going.

5. Obama stared down BP and made them set aside the largest oil cleanup fund in history - and he's got more credits and bonus for green buildings,  and alternative energy than anyone ever before. Ask yourself how many buildings upgraded during his administration - using less power, more effeciently. The answer will astound you.

6. I personally benefitted from this Administration when I sold my home. A new homebuyer hit me on my asking price and I made a good sale. Because Obama extended a credit to the guy, for his first time buy.  It wasn't just me. The entire housing sector rebounded. It's still on the mend, thanks to the guy's policies. All this foreclosure crisis stuff still going on , is bullshit - the big noise everyone is raising now about the existing foreclosures being invalid because of paperwork issues amounts to a silly set of signed documents that are supposed to be presented after the fact: the people who are losing their homes are doing so, because they haven't paid their mortgage. All those foreclosures still out there, are valid. The foreclosure crisis is waning and it was a huge problem for our country. And now its another, largely solved problem. The concept that this paperwork thing is going to be another big problem is B.S. There is no way the zillions of dollars in lawsuits that would occur, are going to happen - the real estate market has bottomed out and stopped its three year crash.

7. 9 out of every 10 dollars in TARP are being returned to the Government thanks to a booming stock market.  And thanks to a booming stock market, the investments the Govt. made in these companies to bail them out - the ones jerome says are all 'pro business' - are going to pay a divided for the American people. I grant you the oversight on that money was not good, and Geitner could have done a better job but in the end,  the money is coming home again.

8. Tax breaks are at an all time high for nearly 90% of all Americans. The only taxes that are going to be raised are on the people who are making a quarter of a million a year.

What's happened here, is the Obama administration has reversed a huge Bush Republican economic crash - and the money is now sitting in the bank accounts of big corporations - who are praying that they can file just one more bankruptcy in their subsidiary, or get just one more write off - while they are spending.... literally .... more money than ever before to try to get people in power to let them keep all the money and not have to put it back into the economy . They want their opponent to go out of business. They want to play a game of "chicken" with regulators.

And above all, they want corrupt men and women in congress so that they can write their own ticket. Shut down any reforms that were made and return this country to the state it was in, before Obama - where their corporate influence delivered an environment that gave them exactly what they want -

At the cost of the global economy.

These forces are a virus to the planet. And they need to be stopped. Here. And now.

And if they are stopped. Then this will be the end of a very wormy element of our government. The democrats who are all lined up with these guys. Are as afraid as the bush republicans.

I don't see Nancy all washed up. I see the GOP as all washed up. And I love the timing. They really think they're going to win.

Yea, OK Ed, its the nasty progressive's fault... you got your professional left talking points down pat.

I don't see Hoyer getting the votes if its the blowout it looks to be (blue dogs gone). Who is next?  Hard to tell.

Your so right. Except your question about how do we WIN the war? We can't Win but we can END it. First thing first. We have to work are asses of to keep the Congress, both houses. Then we can rally to deal with the War,Gitmo,DADT,Capt & trade etc.

I am detached from the Democratic Party, that's true.

I am not angry at all (a projection?) as life is treating me so great (though I am quite pissed off that so many American middle-class income earners are getting the shaft).

As for the site, ebb and flow, ebb and flow. I think its looking for a populist cause to get behind.

Are you talking about the Afghanistan war?

The answers are so simple and they come mostly from the FDR New Deal era:

1) Put people back to work, lots of people.

2) Regulate the big banks and Wall Street.

3) Rebuild the infrastructure

4)  Get rid of the mercenaries.  And wind down the expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a hurry.  Richard Nixon brought home 15,000 troops per month; Obama ought to be able to match that.

5) Take Social Security off the table.  Kill the Cat Food Commission and not Social Security.

6) Raise taxes on corporation and the ultra rich back to the level of the 60s and 70s (pre Reagan).  Eliminate all tax breaks for hedge fund managers.  That will pay for a lot.

7) Make it a war of being for the "rest of us" vs. Wall Street.  Lincoln had a fondness for "the common man."  We casn't save capitalism (or shouldn't) if it means selling America down the drain.

At this point, focus on this and avoid the side issues of religion, guns, and climate.  If they come up, do not back down.

8) Never apologize.  Looking weak plays into the hands of the GOP.

9) Start using phrases like giving money to the rich creates jobs ... in China.  Ian Welsh had a diary to that effect on his site.

10) Go after the GOP on immigration.  Pete Wilson lost California to the GOP for at least 20 years by going the anti-immigrant route.  We can never out anti the thugs.  Why lose the votes of huge ethnic communities for a generation trying to win the Fox News crowd.