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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, November 5, 2009
Blue Hampshire: Club for Growth? Full Steam Ahead! NRSC? Not so Much.
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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Note —
... Washington Times’ Ralph Z. Hallow: “Steele Celebrates GOP Wins, Plays Defense on NY Race” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Wallsten and Jonathan Weisman: “Democrats Confront Coalition Strains” LINK
Bloomberg Commentary by Margaret Carlson: “Republican Purists Scare Democrats, GOP Too” LINK
The Boston Herald Editorial Staff: “A change in the winds” LINK
The New York Times’ Adam Nagourney: “Energized G.O.P. Looking to Avoid an Intraparty Feud” LINK
The New York Times’ David Halbfinger: “Christie Pledges Fight on Taxes and Business ...
Club for Growth? Full Steam Ahead! NRSC? Not so Much.
Blue Hampshire —
The NY-23 fallout has resulted in a double-whammy of bad news for Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte.
First, it looks like the Club for Growth, not buying Ayotte's transparently last minute conversion to Hoffman, was undeterred by the NY-23 loss: Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, another conservative group that campaigned heavily on behalf of Mr. Hoffman, said the organization was now considering issuing endorsements in contested Senate and House Republican races in New Hampshire, Florida, Kentucky and California.
And secondly, ...
The Early Word: Post-Mortems
The Caucus —
O.K. so Election Day is behind us. The Yankees won the World Series. What’s next? With Tuesday’s dust having at least somewhat settled, The Times’s Adam Nagourney reports that, even after gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans are trying to stave off “intramural battles over whether to reach for the political center or do more to motivate the base on the party’s right.” And The Times’s Carl Hulse finds that ...
Stating the Obvious, Acting on It
The Moderate Voice —
... “When our party is united, whether you run in a Northern state or a Southern state, our party can win,” said the House Republican whip, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia. “But when you are divided, you can lose a seat that has been in the Republican column for quite a long time.” ...
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 deliver rapid change in government.”
Roll Call notes that moderates' ...
Two kinds of intra-party divisions
Political Animal —
... among congressional Democrats with regards to strategy -- does the majority become more ambitious, generate some excitement, and rack up some key accomplishments in advance of next year's midterms, or do they scale back, avoid controversial votes, and put the agenda on hold? On the other side of the aisle, the divisions are just as obvious, but they have less to do with legislative strategy and more to do with ideological purity . Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began ...
