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07-16-2010, 08:54 AM
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/07/16/obama_democrats_panic/md_horiz.jpghttp://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/16/obama_democrats_panic
" On the heels of yet another gloomy jobs report and a slew of polls showing President Obama and his party losing broad support across the country, dread has begun to set in among Democrats that a Republican takeover of the House is inevitable.
In thinking about how Democrats could improve their increasingly grim November outlook, the iconic 1973 cover of National Lampoon magazine -- in which a hand holds a revolver up to a worried-looking dog beside a caption threatening the reader to buy the current issue or else -- comes to mind.
In fact, it seems the White House may be embracing this thinking. Both Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, and David Plouffe, Obama's old campaign manager, have recently stated that a new Republican majority is possible. While their comments were immediately assailed by the party's House leadership, they actually revealed a shrewd strategy: pushing the panic button to spur unengaged Democrats to counter the flood of Republican-leaning voters expected in November.
This may be Democrats’ best hope of salvaging a respectable showing in a brutal electoral cycle -- and staving off another 1994...."
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" On the heels of yet another gloomy jobs report and a slew of polls showing President Obama and his party losing broad support across the country, dread has begun to set in among Democrats that a Republican takeover of the House is inevitable.
In thinking about how Democrats could improve their increasingly grim November outlook, the iconic 1973 cover of National Lampoon magazine -- in which a hand holds a revolver up to a worried-looking dog beside a caption threatening the reader to buy the current issue or else -- comes to mind.
In fact, it seems the White House may be embracing this thinking. Both Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, and David Plouffe, Obama's old campaign manager, have recently stated that a new Republican majority is possible. While their comments were immediately assailed by the party's House leadership, they actually revealed a shrewd strategy: pushing the panic button to spur unengaged Democrats to counter the flood of Republican-leaning voters expected in November.
This may be Democrats’ best hope of salvaging a respectable showing in a brutal electoral cycle -- and staving off another 1994...."
More at link