Obama Surging The Down-Ticket Senate Races: 58-42

[berni_mccoy]

via www.electoral-vote.com:

This is excellent. In the last 5 days we've gone from picking up 5 new senate seats for a 56-44 Senate Majority to a 58-42 majority.



Dem pickups (vs. 2002): AK CO NH NM NC OR VA

McCain's is tanking his candidates while Obama is raising his!

[phrigndumass]

1. Go Franken and Lunsford, we can make it 60 :)

:thumbsup:

:applause:

[berni_mccoy]

2. That really would be amazing to get 60. However, that 60 includes LIEberman

So, we'll see.

[phrigndumass]

4. Seinfeld had his Newman, we have our Lieberman, lol

Our arch-enemy :D

:hi:

[jakem]

5. I dont know..

even Newman wold come through in a pinch...

[berni_mccoy]

8. Keep your friends close...

:D

[endthewar]

3. The NH race is in the bag

I live in Boston but NH is in part of the Boston media market. The incumbent US Senator, Republican Sununu of New Hampshire, has been hammered since the summer with some very negative ads. Everything from him being incompetent to him being lockstep with Bush. I had never heard of him before this ad campaign waged against him started and I already hate him. :rofl:

[bunnies]

10. Are you not seeing the anti-Shaheen ads?

They're even more brutal. Talking about her taxathon days as Governor. The only people who seem to think Shaheen has no problem winning here are people that dont actually live here. NH residents remember how she wanted to give us sales tax and income tax when she was Governor.

And you know, her hubby calling Obama a drug dealer isnt exactly a big frigging help either. The Shaheens shat all over Obama in the primaries... now want to ride his coattails in November. I wish she and her hubby would go the hell away. Screw them both.

[endthewar]

14. Well, in the Boston media market

the anti-Shaheen ads just started about a week or two ago, whereas the anti-Sununu ads have been going on for months. I think he's lost credibility by waiting too long to attack. I actually didn't know that stuff about Shaheen, which probably explains why they took the campaign into the gutter so early. I think most voters in NH who live in the Boston media market area will be thinking "Bush" when they see "Sununu".

[palintology]

6. I think McCain will quit the Senate if he loses ...

After all he is only in this race to get a State Funeral ... something his dear father didn't get.

I think ever since his debacle in Vietnam, he has an inferiority complex vs his father (and grandfather).
The only way in his mind to get over that is to become higher in rank than them ... by becoming President.

That's why he gets so angry at everybody who gets in the way.

His final goal is to get a State Funeral, no matter the consequences: Palin.


Alright, enough Palintology for today :)

[Lochloosa]

9. Welcome to DU palintology

Great name. But you can't change it and you will be stuck with it forever.:rofl:

[secondwind]

7. what's happening in PA, however? WTF? Carly Forino must have done some

job on the white vote, when she practically camped out in PA for several weeks, before she was dumped.

[berni_mccoy]

11. PA will stay blue... and there are no senate races there.

The map above is for Senate races.

[endthewar]

15. Use pollster.com

Superb website that pretty much has every poll on it.

[LynneSin]

12. FYI - subtract 1 from the Democrat Totals on EV's site

They count Lieberman on our team, which I highly doubt will happen in 2009

[chicagoexpat]

13. That's the 50 state strategy... it's not that Obama is gonna win or be

competitive in all 50 states, but that the party & he'll spend resources across the board.

That'll help down ticket races.

Of course, the Paul Begala's & James Carvilles & other clintonistas think this strategy is stoopid... so stoopid it helped us switch 3 House seats to Democrats over the summer in special elections...

Note an old quote from Paul Begala (2006) denigrating Dean’s strategy:

"Yes, {Dean}’s in trouble, in that campaign managers, candidates, are really angry with him. He has raised $74 million and spent $64 million. He says it’s a long-term strategy. But what he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose. That’s not how you build a party."

Yeah, right.