Thanks to the fiasco that followed the launch of President Obama's health care law, Democrats are bracing for hard-fought Senate races in states they hoped to win with ease just two months ago. Weeks of technical problems with the health insurance enrollment website and anxiety over insurance cancellations for millions of people have erased early advantages enjoyed by Democratic candidates Gary Peters in Michigan and Mark Udall in Colorado.
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As the election year dawns, those problems have widened the narrow opening for Republicans to retake control of the Senate. "There's not a lot of wiggle room here. Colorado is definitely in play," said Craig Hughes, a Denver-based Democratic consultant who ran Obama's 2012 Colorado campaign and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet's 2010 campaign. "The website was a disaster, and the process of changing insurance is inherently difficult. This is not going to be a smooth process."
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Wasserman Schultz: Democrats Will Win in 2014
Running on Obamacare
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Republicans need to pick up six seats to win the Senate in a midterm election year that typically hurts the party in the White House. A victory in either Michigan or Colorado — both carried by Obama in 2012 and 2008 — would greatly boost their chances. Democrats already are defending Senate seats in seven states that Obama won, including three where incumbents are retiring.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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2 comments:
Debbie Schultz is mad.
Insane.
Statta.
She is out there in the forefront to create hatred against the Jews.
Now why has the Republi-con party run weakling candidates against her?
Like a candidate who will
VOTE NO......
on any increase in the size, cost, reach and power of government.
The Constitution is one huge "no" vote on increasing the size, cost, reach and power of government. The entire purpose of the Constitution is limited federal government. Our Constitution wanted only enough power for the streamlined, enumerated, and appropriate functions of government. They KNEW first hand the dangers of gov charity, and purposefully did not give this power or function to our federal government.
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