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Careful with that axe, Eugene Wrote: Sep 06, 2010 8:08 AM

actually, what I want is a European/Japanese style system where the needs of people are met and corporations can't run roughshod over people... and we will get that, eventually, because you guys abused the privilage. Midterms don't count, man. I have to keep explaining this to you, but no president has ever lost seats in a midterm and said, "Well, I give up." It just doesn't happen, guy. Winning the midterms would be the WORST thing to happen to you guys. Because you'll give Obama villians from central casting...

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Happy Long Weekend, DSCC!

This morning, political prognosticator extraordinaire Charlie Cook sends along a delightful bit of analysis for Harry Reid, Bob Menendez, & Co: "The Senate's In Play."

For much of this year, it seemed a near mathematical impossibility that Republicans could score the 10-seat net gain needed to flip the Senate, which is split between 59 Democrats (including two independents who caucus with Democrats and largely vote with the party) and 41 Republicans. As recently as six weeks ago, I wrote in a CongressDailyAM column that a GOP win was "certainly possible" but "still fairly unlikely." Although...

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