Check this out…
The New Hampshire Senate race … is closer than you might think. The three most recent nonpartisan polls — by New England College, SurveyUSA and WMUR — put Shaheen up by an average of 3 points. Her lead, which has tightened since the summer, is steady but it’s narrow, and most polls have her below the 50 percent threshold. That’s hardly safe territory.
She is running against a total douche bag in Scott Brown. And yet…
…Cook Political Report shifted its rating of the race from “lean Democratic” to “tossup,” deeming it one of 10 contests poised to determine Senate control.
How could that be?
According to TPM…
Four factors stand out. One is that voters have tuned in late…The second is that President Obama’s popularity is underwater by 8 to 13 points in the state…The third is that New Hampshire is “especially sensitive” to the national political environment, which has been harder on Democrats lately. The fourth is that the Granite State is suited in some ways to Brown’s retail-oriented style.
The fifth, unnoticed by TPM’s Sahil Kapur, is that the Democratic Party SUCKS ASS. It has no coherent message and frankly doesn’t give a flying fuck. There is no national sense of a “Democratic Brand” and nothing for anybody to run on other than being “not quite as terrible as the Republican.”
I can’t believe that we are having to endure another election in which Republicans whack-job, but coherent political branding will utterly destroy the Democrats. I can’t believe that we are having to endure another election in which the Democrats incoherent political branding will leave the beltway gurus wondering why Democratic voters “sit out” mid-term elections. I’m a die hard Democrat but the way our party conducts itself is frankly nauseating.