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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, November 5, 2009
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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Note —
... Looking to Avoid an Intraparty Feud” LINK
The New York Times’ David Halbfinger: “Christie Pledges Fight on Taxes and Business Rules” LINK
The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Perry bacon Jr.: “As GOP celebrates wins, internal ideological battles remain” LINK
The New York Times’ Carl Hulse: “Democrats to Use Election to Push Agenda in Congress” LINK
The Washington Post’s Michael Shear and Paul Kane: “For parties, the soul-searching begins” LINK
The Washington Post’s Karl Vick: “Inability to lower taxes helped cost Gov. Corzine his ...
2009: The post-mortems
First Read —
... Congressional Democrats seem to have two different ideas on what Tuesday’s elections meant for their party, the Washington Post says. “[M]oderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from Tuesday's voting, warning that the results prove that independent voters are wary of Obama's far-reaching proposals and mounting spending, as well as the growing federal debt. Liberal lawmakers, meanwhile, said the party's shortcoming came in moving too slowly on health-care reform and other items that would satisfy a base becoming disenchanted with the failure to ...
Weak knees keep shaking
Political Animal —
... reports "already-skittish moderate Democrats" now have "fresh reasons ... to worry." The Washington Post reports that Democrats are "nervous" and "moderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from Tuesday's voting, warning that the results prove that independent voters are wary of Obama's far-reaching proposals and mounting spending, as well as the growing federal debt." ...
Warner: ‘We got walloped’
Taylor Marsh —
... a congressional seat that’s been in Republican hands since Ulysses S. Grant was president, in part because of the disunity in the Republican Party… That was the only truly national contest on the ballot. … The most portentous thing that happened yesterday was that the right wing of the Republican Party ran a moderate Republican essentially out of the race, and lost a seat they had held for more than 100 years. I don’t take that as discouragement.” – For parties, the soul-searching begins ...
The Election
Swampland —
... is actually proposing for health care. (And, as always, they want more services--job creation now--and lower taxes and lower deficits.) 2. The NY-23 race should send a message to Republican wingnuts, but it probably won't. It is a cause for optimism for Democrats--but I'm not sure Democrats should be all that optimistic: this is a commentary on the inept extremism of the Republicans rather than any public love for what the Dems are offering. 3. According to this Washington Post story , moderate Democrats are wary of grand ideas...but they want to see more job creation. Does ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... reports "already-skittish moderate Democrats" now have "fresh reasons ... to worry." The Washington Post reports that Democrats are "nervous" and "moderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from Tuesday's voting, warning that the results prove that independent voters are wary of Obama's far-reaching proposals and mounting spending, as well as the growing federal debt." ...
Independent Voters and Empty Explanations
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
Karl Rove: The trend here is that suburban and independent voters moved into the GOP column. The overall shift away from Democrats was 13 points in Virginia, 12 points in New Jersey, and eight points in Pennsylvania. [...] Looking ahead, the bad news for Democrats is that the legislation that helped lead to the collapse of support for their party on Tuesday could yet inflict more pain on those foolish enough to support it.The Washington Post: But moderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from ...
It is not about what Congress does, it is about what Congress causes
Open Left - Front Page —
... The biggest flaw in the post-election spin is the tendency of politicians and pundits to consider most swing voters ideologically-driven news junkies, instead of the results-oriented, low-information participants in the political process that they are. This paragraph in the Washington Post is a good example of the flawed conventional wisdom emanating from both wings of the Democratic Party: ...
It's the Base, Stupid
Daily Kos —
... reports "already-skittish moderate Democrats" now have "fresh reasons ... to worry." The Washington Post reports that Democrats are "nervous" and "moderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from Tuesday's voting, warning that the results prove that independent voters are wary of Obama's far-reaching proposals and mounting spending, as well as the growing federal debt." ...
