A less visible part of the damage done by Katrina may be what's happened to the President's approval rating. |
A lot of members of Congress just like to hear themselves. They want to issue a press release back home. They want to make a little bit of a splash in the local papers, local TV stations, (but) most of these things aren't going to be enacted into law. |
All political roads lead to Ohio in 2006. First, there is almost no way Democrats can get control of the Senate back without beating DeWine. Second, it's going to be one of the best chances Democrats have to pick up a governorship, and a big governorship, not just any old governorship. And third, it's the state with the most vulnerable Republican House seats in the country. |
Anything that focuses media and public attention on Iraq war casualties day after day — particularly [something] that is a good visual for television, like a weeping Gold Star mother — is a really bad thing for President Bush and his administration. |
By almost every relevant measurement, national polls indicate that Republicans are at least as bad off as Democrats were at this point in 1994, before suffering devastating midterm losses. |
By an eight-point margin, voters are now more likely to call themselves Democrats than Republicans; there was no gap in self-identification a year ago. |
He'll be a force, but obviously it will be a blow if his signature issue goes down in flame. |
I felt bad about the fumble. I didn't see a defensive back come up from the side, and he got the ball out of there. |
I think if McCain-Feingold goes down, Sen. McCain will still be a force in the Senate, |
I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision. |
I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people, ... But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel. |
I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people. But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel. |
I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008. |
I wouldn't want to stand between Chuck Schumer and anything he really wanted. |
If Democrats want to argue that the administration misrepresented and distorted the prewar intelligence, OK, that's one thing. But if they push the argument that they have been duped, fooled and victimized - well, to a lot of [independent swing] voters, they're just going to come across as weak. |