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Charlie Cook on Hardball: not surprised if no Republican incumbents lose in 2010
ArgueWithEveryone.com ^ | December 31, 2009

Posted on 01/01/2010 7:48:04 AM PST by Clintonfatigued

MATTHEWS: Can a Republican lose this year coming up? Can a Republican incumbent lose any race anywhere next year?

COOK: I would not be surprised to see no Republican incumbent, House or Senate, lose.

MATTHEWS: How about a Democrat? We‘ve got five vulnerable people here, Specter, Lincoln, Bennet, Dodd. You say Dodd is the most vulnerable. Who is the second-most vulnerable?

COOK: Reid—

BROWNSTEIN: Reid or Lincoln. Lincoln is in a situation where, again, it‘s more generic than personal. This is a state kind of filled with the kind of voters that have been most resistance to the direction Obama is setting. I think that‘s a real problem.

I think Colorado‘s a real challenge, too, because Bennet is operating, to some extent, as the shadow of the governor, Bill Ritter, who has a very uneven first term, some successes, a lot of disappointments. He could face a very—and Obama‘s approval there was dropping before the Fall.

MATTHEWS: Be coaches for a minute. How do you coach a Democrat to win with a bad weather condition out there, where people don‘t like Obama right now?

COOK: Independence. Stress your independence. I look at each issue one at a time. I‘d do what‘s right for the state. I‘m independent. Yes, I vote with my party when I think they‘re right. I‘m against them when they‘re wrong. Be able to list—

MATTHEWS: How does Dodd make up for the fact that people, even Connecticut people, are ripped at Wall Street?

COOK: That‘s not his problem.

MATTHEWS: That‘s not his problem?

COOK: His problem is being a Democrat. His problem is being Chris Dodd.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; 2010midterms; charliecook; gopcomeback
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To: jpsb

Inner city Dems can’t be thrown out unless the inner cities are thrown out.


41 posted on 01/01/2010 10:25:44 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Reid will be in huge trouble by election time. Mannnny scandals coming out. A little bird told me.


42 posted on 01/01/2010 10:35:29 AM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

For the Senate, I’m not so worried about GOP incumbents losing. I’m worried about open Senate seats due to GOP retirements. Robin Carnahan isn’t being too much impacted by the bad political climate.


43 posted on 01/01/2010 10:46:09 AM PST by yongin
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To: Frantzie
Rove is not a genius and he did us no favors. Rove told Bush to push for amnesty.

Frantzie, you are so wrong. Rove is an inspiration to marketing men everywhere. He taught us how to get huge, humongous, intergalactic budgets, and use them to get lousy results!

And then, as if that were not enough, he taught us to change slam-dunk landslides into closely fought nail-biters, at great expense!

Not only that, he introduced a new paradigm into the GOP strategies for all time. Karl Rove taught us that:

Hispanics are the Republicans of the Future!

THEN TO BE LAVISHLY REWARDED FOR THIS. THAT, FRANTZIE, IS THE MARK OF A TRUELY AWESOME GENIUS.

44 posted on 01/01/2010 10:47:34 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: Night Hides Not
...we don't need any more RINO/Rovian storms. The last Rovian storm brought us Democrat victories in 2006 & 2008.

If Rove had his way, the Dems would now have 20 million new voters and the Republicans would have ceased to exist as a political force.

The true Rovian storm would be a permanent Dem majority.

45 posted on 01/01/2010 12:06:08 PM PST by RJL
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To: Frantzie
He signed the McCain/Feingold bill that restricted the first amendment, restricted political speech. He knew it to be unconstitutional and signed it anyway, in his first year!

Also in his first year he teamed up with ole Teddy to expand the NEA, instead of dismembering it. The Senate was 50/50 and the dems cried for shared power because it wasn't "fair" that the VP could break ties. Bush went along with all of it.

Lets face it they are all corrupt, there are a few that aren't give them long enough in the cess pool and they will be. It is all about them, damn the people!

46 posted on 01/01/2010 12:17:30 PM PST by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: thirst4truth

Agree. Pretty sad. I was fooled by GW but he is just another tool for the elites and Saudis. Light years better than the Muslim but he was no Reagan. This is why the elites tried to get Reagan.


47 posted on 01/01/2010 12:30:07 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: Clintonfatigued

From your typing fingers to God’s ears! :)

Happy New Year!


48 posted on 01/01/2010 12:38:44 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I think Colorado‘s a real challenge, too, because Bennet is operating, to some extent, as the shadow of the governor, Bill Ritter, who has a very uneven first term, some successes, a lot of disappointments. He could face a very—and Obama‘s approval there was dropping before the Fall.

Colorado has been devastated under the Dems Ritter, Salazar and Bennet: unemployment is higher than the national average, they decimated the booming natural gas industry, and the coal counties, which have long been Dem strongholds, know what's going to happen if cap and tax goes through.

The Hispanic vote has been crushed because of massive construction layoffs. There is NO building, so they are not coming back.

Ritter's administration has been rocked by scandal, and basically everybody's sick of them.

You already see bumperstickers: Obama and Ritter: No thanks, You can keep the change and, Welcome to Taxarado. State representatives, who can smell the winds of change, are already switching parties.

Prediction: they're toast.

49 posted on 01/01/2010 6:19:49 PM PST by Red Boots
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To: yongin; Clintonfatigued

I’m not very worried about the open Senate seats. They are all 50/50 at worst. I think in a good year they’ll break our way.

I would be very surprised though if Joe Cao is reelected.

And unless he changes his vote on Obamacare I don’t care if he is.


50 posted on 01/02/2010 12:56:31 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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