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In a fast-shifting political landscape, Democrats are stumbling just as Republicans finally seem to be finding their footing.

Republican voters shunned Tea Party candidates in Tuesdays primaries.

A scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs may leave Democrats vulnerable to a backlash from voters sympathetic to former troops.

And President Barack Obama is set to personally announce new greenhouse-gas regulations on power plants next month that coal-state Republicans will use to portray Democrats as job killers.

Thats all bad news for Democrats in advance of Novembers midterm election that will determine just how difficult it will be for Obama to accomplish anything in his final two years in office.

Reports of covered-up delays at VA facilities may be a particularly potent issue, said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

This is a major political problem that will make Benghazi look like a piece of cake, Rieckhoff said.

Republicans are expected to retain their House majority, which currently stands at 233-199, while the two parties are competing fiercely for control of the Senate. The Cook Political Report, a non-partisan prognosticator of congressional elections, projects that if Democrats and Republicans won all the Senate races leaning in their direction, each party would control 46 seats in the chamber, while eight races are ranked in a toss-up category.

Noting the field of Republican candidates who emerged from Tuesdays primaries, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House, said the GOPs election outlook is getting better every day.

McMorris Rodgers said the VAs issues will hurt Obamas allies in congressional races if he doesnt fix them soon.

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Coal, Tea and Veterans Boost Republicans in Rough Week for Obama