Kos:2010 may be tough, but we haven't lost yet

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By Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/8/899854/-2010-may-be-tough,-but-we-havent-lost-yet

Rand Paul's last celebrated Paulite moneybomb brought in about $260,000. The campaign of Democrat Jack Conway aimed to beat that number in their own effort yesterday. They did so, and comfortably so: over $300,000 was raised yesterday, and the money continues to pour in.
(http://www.actblue.com/page/orangetoblue2010)

Here at Daily Kos, almost 1,300 of you responded and gave nearly $50,000 to Conway and the rest of our Orange to Blue roster this cycle. For a year in which excitement has been hard to generate, this was a moment of big optimism.

There are more reasons to feel motivated to fight --

Rather than capitulate, Obama has decided to oppose the extension of tax cuts for the richest Americans. Its a much needed populist position for progressives who wanted Democrats to be Democrats in the run-up to this election.

Gallup's outlier generic congressional ballot poll (the one with the GOP +10) has been supplanted by a new one showing a 46-46 tie. Democrats still face a challenging environment, but heading into this contest tied (or slightly behind) gives us room to improve. Being down 10 would be disastrous.

Individual state-by-state races show that we remain competitive in challenging territory. The DCCC's poll dump yesterday was designed, in large part, to show that the sky hadn't fallen. Yes, we'll suffer big losses, but if the GOP isn't running away with, say, AL-02 against a freshman Democrat in a district that McCain won 63-36, then perhaps Speaker John Boehner isn't a done deal yet.

Back to Kentucky, we still have a real race:

Ophthalmologist Rand Paul (R) and state Attorney General Jack Conway (D) are in a statistical tie in the Kentucky Senate race, according to a new survey conducted by a Democratic pollster.

Paul takes 48 percent to 45 percent for Conway in the poll, which was conducted for the Kentucky Leadership Council by John Anzalone.

The poll shows voters are concerned about Paul's public statements, including one in which he appeared to dismiss the state's problems with drugs. Neaely six in ten voters (59 percent) agreed that Paul "says things that bother and concern me."

more at link

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Just educate the citizens on Paul's opinion of SS & Medicare, no more dead heat.

[regnaD kciN]

2. Dead on -- the fact is...

...this isn't a race where there's just a massive swing of sentiment to the Republican position. If there's an eventual landslide result, it will be because Republicans turned out in force and Democrats stayed home. The key to the election is getting our side motivated to turn out in equal strength to the Republicans. We may still lose some seats (the fact is, unless there's a war on, the party in power almost always loses seats in mid-terms), but we'll still have control of both houses of Congress -- and that's really the name of the game this year.

In other words: if we lose, we have only ourselves to blame.