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hide captionNewly elected GOP Congressman David Jolly of Florida, right, poses for a ceremonial swearing-in with Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, on March 13. Jolly edged out Democrat Alex Sink in a special election that Republicans cast as a referendum on President Obama and his unpopular health care law.
Newly elected GOP Congressman David Jolly of Florida, right, poses for a ceremonial swearing-in with Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, on March 13. Jolly edged out Democrat Alex Sink in a special election that Republicans cast as a referendum on President Obama and his unpopular health care law.
Democrats have had great success in recent presidential elections registering, targeting and turning out their core voters. Now they're hoping to use that sophisticated field operation to to stave off defeat in this year's midterm elections.
They'll need all the help they can get because the Democratic hold on the Senate is looking increasingly shaky. The president is unpopular. So is Obamacare, and the number of vulnerable Democratic Senate seats is growing by the day. Several independent handicappers have recently moved several more Democratic seats into the "toss up" category.
Republicans only need a net of six pickups to take control of the Senate. And Democrats know that would make the last two years of President Obama's term pretty miserable. Obama himself has been sounding the alarm at every fundraiser and party meeting.
Last month at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee, he said, "When Democrats have everybody on the field, we cannot lose. That's just a fact."
That's certainly been true in presidential years, where Democrats have won the popular vote in five out of the last six elections. But in midterms, it's a different story altogether.
"A lot of Democrats don't vote during midterms," Obama said. "We just don't. Young people, African-Americans, Latinos we just, often times, don't vote during midterms."
And earlier this month, in a special election for a congressional seat in Florida, that's exactly what happened or didn't happen. Geoff Garin, the pollster for Alex Sink, the Democratic candidate who lost, says the problem was a drop in turnout.
"The cold, hard facts are that 49,000 fewer people voted in that special election than in the Nov. 2010 election for Congress," he said, "and about 160,000 fewer people voted than in the presidential election in 2012. That dropoff is occurring disproportionally among Democratic voters and creates a pretty substantial head wind for Democratic candidates."
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Gillespie says he opposes ACA, Kondick say Democrats seek to undermine Republican's credibility by Caelainn Carney | Mar 23 2014 | 21 hours ago
Virginia Democrats launched a campaign website Thursday claiming that Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for Virginia Senate against incumbent Mark Warner, a Democrat, has been inconsistent in his stance on the Affordable Care Act.
The website, http://www.gillespiecare.com, claims that Gillespie supported aspects of the ACA, such as the individual mandate, when working as a lobbyist in 2007 but expressed opposition to them in 2014.
In bold font across the middle of the page, the site reads, Ed Gillespie will advocate for individual mandate for the right price.
Democratic spokesperson Ashley Bauman said Democrats created the site to highlight inconsistency in Gillespies past political decisions.
The site was create to show the hypocrisy of Gillespies stance on the healthcare mandate, Bauman said.
Gillespie Campaign spokesperson Paul Logan said Ed Gillespie is absolutely against the Affordable Care Act.
Ed opposed Obamacare and its mandates and he would repeal and replace it, Logan said in an email. Mark Warner voted for it, and thinks it should stay. The [Democratic Party of Virginias] attacks have rightly been criticized in the media for so much misrepresentation so early, and this latest attack is no exception.
Bauman said the information used for the website all came from public record and was readily available to the public. Bauman said Democrats think Gillespie previously expressed different opinions about the ACA but has not discussed his reasons for the change.
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and if hes going to change his stance on the mandate he needs to explain why, Bauman said. I think voters need to know now that he is changing his tune.
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