DNC memo blames Bush for impending midterm loss
DNC memo blames Bush for impending midterm loss By Mike Riggs - The Daily Caller 10:31 AM 11/02/2010
The great recasting has begun. What does a Republican victory — a whole slew of them, actually, in states both red and blue — mean for the Democratic Party? In the collective brain pan of the Democratic National Committee , not much.
“Democrats knew that 2010 would be an uphill battle for three reasons,” reads a memo that the DNC sent its allies early this morning. Anticipating a drubbing, the committee’s talking points suggest that there’s nothing out of the ordinary about today’s likely Republican victory:
“The party of the president historically loses seats in midterm elections; Too many people are looking for work or struggling to get by as a result of eight years of irresponsible economic policies (and despite creating more private sector jobs in the last eight months than President Bush did in 8 years); the sheer number of seats we’re defending this year as a result of the successes of 2006 and 2008, including 49 Democratic representatives on the ballot this year whose districts John McCain won in 2008.”
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