Should Republicans in Congress start packing their bags?
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FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
"There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates," according to the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen. He tells the Washington Post that "no one could have imagined the tsunami that just crashed on Republicans in Mississippi."
That's where a Democrat won a Republican-held congressional seat in the northern part of the state yesterday. This is a district where President Bush won by 25 points in the 2004 election, and the former Republican congressman won reelection with 66% of the vote in 2006.
It's the third special election the GOP has lost this spring, including a House race in Louisiana that had been Republican for more than three decades and the seat of former House speaker Dennis Hastert in Illinois.
Seems to have set off some warning bells. The head of the National Republican Congressional Committee is calling on all GOP candidates to "take stock of their campaigns" and get ready for "challenging" races in the fall.
Democrats say these races are a sign of what's to come in November. They say they're going after the Republicans' strategy of tying Democrats to Barack Obama, a strategy that has failed twice now in the Deep South.
Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll shows Congress' approval rating has dipped below 20% for only the fourth time in 34 years. Only 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. That ties a record for this survey.
Add in the fact that 82% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, and it's no wonder so many incumbents in Congress are opting not to run for reelection.
Here’s my question to you: Was yesterday's race in Mississippi a sign that congressional Republicans should start packing their bags?
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What would you ask Hillary Clinton?
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FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
Hillary Clinton is sort of starting to look like the last guest at a dinner party who doesn't recognize that it's time to go.
Her win in West Virginia is being called "large but largely symbolic." That's because the numbers just don't add up. In West Virginia she won 20 delegates. Barack Obama won 8, a net gain of only 12 for her.
In fact, Obama's lead over Clinton has actually increased in the last week despite her big West Virginia win. He picked up two more superdelegates today, a sign that the Democratic leaders know exactly where this thing is headed. The Associated Press reports Obama has picked up an additional 30 superdelegates in the past week. He now leads Clinton by 11; she once led him by more than 100.
One of these new Obama superdelegates is Roy Romer, former Democratic Party chairman, who told reporters, "This race, I believe, is over." He says only Clinton can decide when to withdraw, but that it's time to focus on the general election.
Obama is also being endorsed by three former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of whom was appointed by Hillary's husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Rubbing salt in the wound, this afternoon Obama received the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a leading abortion rights group which has supported Hillary Clinton throughout her entire political career.
All this seems to beg the question: What part of "go away" doesn't Hillary Clinton understand?
Here’s my question to you: If you could interview Senator Hillary Clinton, what would you ask her?
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