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Thursday, November 20, 2014

A leftwing "tea party"?

November 20, 2014 Burgess Everett , Democrats 0 Comments
Liberal ‘Hell No' Caucus Rises

Burgess Everett, Nov. 19, 2014, Politico

Liberal Senate Democrats united to block the controversial project, even though their imperiled Democratic colleague Mary Landrieu of Louisiana begged them not to at a Democratic Caucus lunch on Tuesday afternoon.

It was a remarkable move for a group that has stood behind Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over the years, as he sought to protect vulnerable moderates, like Landrieu and some of her now-ousted colleagues, from taking tough votes on divisive environmental, health care and social issues.

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Politico: "Florida Loss Exposes Democrats' Disarray On Obamacare"

March 14, 2014 Alex Sink , Burgess Everett 0 Comments

By Jake Sherman and Burgess Everett
Democrats can’t even agree whether Obamacare was the reason for their crushing loss in a Florida special election Tuesday.  Now picture how their messaging plan for the health care law is shaping up for 2014.
Republican lobbyist David Jolly’s victory over Democrat Alex Sink has many Democrats privately worried and publicly split about how to talk about Obamacare.

A few Democrats are advocating a drastic rhetorical shift to the left, by criticizing their own party for not going far enough when it passed the law in 2010.
Other Democrats plan to sharply criticize the Affordable Care Act when running for re-election.

Many plan to stick to the simple message that Obamacare is flawed and needs to be fixed —a tactic that plainly didn’t work for Sink.

Taken together, the Democratic Party is heading into an already tough election year divided — instead of united — on the very issue Republicans plan to make central to their campaigns.


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