Dems Face Catastrophe in NY and Nevada Races as Unpopular Obama Becomes Drag on Party

It begins…
Hope and change had turned to downgrade and despair.
Dems fear big losses tomorrow in New York and Nevada due to the unpopular far left president.
The National Journal reported:

Democrats are facing the very real possibility that a pair of special elections on Tuesday will shake the foundations of the 2012 political landscape. The party is at serious risk of losing a House race in New York City that few thought would be close, and campaign officials are already close to writing off a Nevada House race they had once hoped to contest.

If Republicans win both contests, it would raise fresh concerns about President Obama’s drag on down-ballot Democrats and the party’s ability to keep its Senate majority. The losses would also raise questions about whether the party can gain the 24 seats it needs to regain the House.

In the last week, the race for former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat has given Democrats the biggest headache. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee late last week poured in $500,000 in a last-gasp attempt to hang onto a seat that has been in Democratic hands for decades. Before Weiner represented the Queens- and Brooklyn-based district, it was the home turf of now-Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

…Discontent with Washington and the president is at the heart of Turner’s shocking upset bid. In a district he won by 11 points just three years ago, Obama’s favorability rating is now upside down in the Siena poll, with 54 percent having an unfavorable opinion of Obama and only 43 percent viewing him favorably. A remarkable 38 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of independents hold an unfavorable view of the president.

Republicans are eager to link Obama to the district race. “It really will be a referendum on President Obama’s performance,” said New York GOP Chairman Edward Cox. “This will be a rejection of his policies that have stifled the district. Maybe [Democrats] can save this situation by funneling in hundreds of thousands of money in vicious ads—maybe that will work in this Democratic district. But they are already embarrassed by the fact that they’ve had to do this in this district.”

In the Silver State, the situation isn’t as ominous, but Democrats have all but written off contesting a Republican-leaning seat in rural Nevada that once seemed squarely in play weeks ago. The Democratic nominee is state Treasurer Kate Marshall, and Democrats had touted her as a leading recruit. She got off to a fast fundraising start, and hammered the Republican nominee, Mark Amodei, for supporting entitlement cuts.

Republicans anticipated this contest being tight, and the National Republican Congressional Committee and the outside group American Crossroads spent significant sums of money to bolster Amodei early.

Amodei also was ready to play defense, using an ad with his mother to deflect the Medicare attacks against him. He noted that Marshall supported Obama’s health care overhaul law, which contained Medicare cuts as well. The National Republican Congressional Committee also pumped in more than $600,000 to pummel Marshall with that line of attack, but the DCCC never came to her rescue.

Early voting in the district, along with few national Democratic reinforcements for Marshall, strongly suggests that Amodei is going to win comfortably.

#1 September 12, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Wheeze commented:

being a independent I have problems with both parties but coming 2012 I smell a landslide for the conservatives…
#2 September 12, 2011 at 4:38 pm
FU#K OBAMA commented:

You would think that after the 2010 elections they would get a clue?
#3 September 12, 2011 at 4:38 pm
donh commented:

Just how smart was it for Krugman to launch an antisemitic neocon rant about 911 just 2 days before a special elections when poll numbers show a republican surge ? Add to that Mayor Doomberg’s apartheid blunder of a bigoted “separate but equal ” 911 ceremony.
#4 September 12, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Mark1957 commented:

Turn about is fair play, The demoncrats won seats in the House & Senate in 2008 by running against George W. Bush after his poll numbers went bust. I would encourage every single Republican candidate to run against Obama & his failed policies in 2012.
#5 September 12, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Mats commented:

I smell the corpse of a dead donkey
#6 September 12, 2011 at 4:42 pm
regularguy commented:

Obama is the greatest gift to conservatives since Reagan.
#7 September 12, 2011 at 4:44 pm
American Woman commented:

There is nothing they can do, because the Sleeping Giant is wiping the stardust from its eyes and doesn’t like what it sees.

America doesn’t like socialism or the Progressives, who are trying to shove it down our throats. Progressives want to destroy us just as they destroyed the Democratic Party. Here’s news for them: “You are on your way out. Moreover, you are never coming back. It’s over.

Clean Congress & the Big White in 2012.
#8 September 12, 2011 at 4:50 pm
BurmaShave commented:

I wonder what Anthony Wiener thinks about the unintended consequences of his “hacked” tweeter account.
#9 September 12, 2011 at 4:50 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

unpopular obama! he couldn’t have done any of the terrible things he has done without the aid and abetting of the entire democratic congress. to this day not one of them has stood up and said no to anything obama has proposed. they sneak around backrooms whispering to republicans. i don’t know what the howard deans and andy sterns have on them but it must be pretty damn bad.
#10 September 12, 2011 at 4:51 pm
kato commented:

Mats:

The donkey isn’t dead, but there is indeed a stench.
#11 September 12, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Mats commented:

But the conservative comeback will not be sustained unless they gain control (or more power) into the indoctrination centers called “public schools” and the court systems..
#12 September 12, 2011 at 5:15 pm
American Woman commented:

Mats

#11

It’s not just the progressives. they are aided by RINO’s. Perry indoctrinates kids in Texas schools with Islamic propaganda. (Google it.)
#13 September 12, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Vixen commented:

kato commented:

Mats:

The donkey isn’t dead, but there is indeed a stench.
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And that stench is quite exquisite….
#14 September 12, 2011 at 5:36 pm
west1890 commented:

OK Soros, your brilliant plant in the White House turned out to be a lot less than you hoped for. Now what?
#15 September 12, 2011 at 5:37 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

a victory for republicans doesn’t mean a victory for conservatives. it could just be a liberal in republican clothing.
#16 September 12, 2011 at 5:43 pm
bigkahuna commented:

Record Spending,
Record Deficits,
Record debt,
Record unemployement,
Record foodstamps,
record waste,
record fraud,
record govt hiring
Cash for Clunkers ( ie auto unions)
Cash for appliances
Cash for Police Unions ie ( stimulous 1)
Cash for Fireman Unions ie ( stimulous 1)
Cash for Teachers Unions ie ( stimulous 1 & 2 and now proposed 3)
Cash for insulation ( instead of paying for it yourself) ( ie stimulous 1)
Cash for Solar panels and windmills.
Cash for Auto unions ( stole GM and Chrysler)
Cash for food…( food stamps) all time high
Cash for jobs ( even fake ones at twice the price…ie stimulous 1,2,3)
Cash for sitting on your ass…ie 2 years of unemployment
Obamacare…higher rates and waivers out the ying yang
Cash for housing. Hudd
Cash for pooping kids…Welfare etc etc etc
Cash for votes….ACORN
War in Libya
Gulf Spill response
Gulf oil shut down
Buying up land all over the US
Shutting down coal, gas and oil drilling
Wanting to shut down Gitmo
Wanting to give trials to terrorists
Failing to prosecute Black Panthers and union thugs
Failing to stop illegal immigration
Failing to deport more of them
Failing on taxes
Failing to go line by line to cut waste fraud and abuse as PROMISED
Failure to televise Obamacare negotiations
Failure to Post all bills online 3 days ahead of vote
Failure to stimulate jobs, creativity, minds, and his fat wife.
Stimulating Chris Matthews, Special Ed Schultz, Keith Olberdork, Farid Dickweed, Al Notso Sharpton, and that little boy Rachel Madcow
Demonizing, the evil rich making $200 K plus, plane owners, business owners, Bush, Cheney, Tea Party, Americans, Insurance companies, banks, big oil, big Pharma, Vegas, Isreal
Supporting Al Jeezera, Big labor, big Govt, Big Spending, Iran, N Korea, Hamass, liberals, gun laws, ACORN, Big education, pervert czars Glkobal warming/cooling climate change
Bowing to dictators, returning Busts to Geat Britain, giving speeches and movies to the Queen

Takeover of banks and insurance companies and Financial reform bill
Fannie and Freddie Frauds

Why would people not support him????
#17 September 12, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Cutlers bad knee commented:

Do anyone of you really think most of the people in Nevada has enough common sense to change anything ? If so I’ve got two words for you all,……Harry Reid….Nuff said.
#18 September 12, 2011 at 5:52 pm
neverends commented:

#17
I live in Nevada and you are absolutely right about Reid. HOWEVER, Las Vegas is NOT in the mix during this election. It is the entire rest of the state. Harry owns LV and provided the buses and drivers to get the union bots to the polls for him and that’s why he won. His son ran for governor and was beat by double digits. You can’t judge the rest of the state by the fools in LV with 26% unemployment, highest foreclosures and bankruptcies.
#19 September 12, 2011 at 6:05 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

#17&#18 i dont think harry won because of legimate registered voters. harry won because of the frequent voter.
#20 September 12, 2011 at 6:24 pm
tpartynitwit commented:

Unfortunately, the Queens district will be redistricted out of existence by the fall. But if we scream loud and long enough about tomorrow’s win, we’ll make the dumbocritters feel bad in the meantime!!
#21 September 12, 2011 at 6:31 pm
WannabeAnglican commented:

If the Demorats drop half a mill on Wiener’s district and lose, it will warm my heart.
#22 September 12, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Limousine Barry commented:

So, we lose New York and Nevada. I suck! Big deal! We can make it up in California!

Barney Frank will be having a fund raiser in San Francisco. The limousine will be cruising Castro Street. Barney will be in the back with is butt in the air. Feel free to give him a donation!

My motto is “Change and Hope. Bend-over and grab you ankles. Let Barney in.” Good Day.
#23 September 12, 2011 at 9:01 pm
judgeroybean commented:

How soon we forget Nevada ’08. The day before election Harry Reid was sucking bilge in the basement and it was hopeless. Well waddya know? ALL the polsters got it wrong! Every danged one of them! Not one had the wits to poll dead people, out of staters, illegal aliens, inmates, union officials, motor voters, and all the other disenfranchised folks who hadn’t gotten around to registering yet. It’s called the WASHIGTON STATE plan. Some say it’s the Chicago way. Regardless, the result is the same.
#27 September 13, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Oldpuppymax commented:

Just as Obama is depending on voter fraud to win an additional 4 years in the Whitey House, the New York race will go to the Democrat as blacks and illegals line up to vote at numerous polling places.

Mexican illegals won Reid’s job for him last year. They could do the same today for the Dem.