"some of the qualities that Democrats now demand -- experience and toughness -- are things they explicitly rejected in Hillary Clinton during the Democratic presidential primaries. Democrats said that they wanted a "fresh face," rather than "experience," and that they wanted a "unifier," rather than a "fighter." (more)

Well, today’s race has one democrat concerned anyway. Democrat Evan Bayh warned Democrats of the lessons of today’s catastrophic loss in Massachusetts ABC’s The Note reported: Even before the votes are counted, Senator Evan Bayh is warning fellow Democrats that ignoring the lessons of the Massachusetts Senate race will “lead to even further catastrophe” for their party. “There’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this,” Bayh told ABC News, but “if you lose ... (more)

Washington (CNN) – Democrats face a growing enthusiasm gap in this year’s battle for Congress, according to a new national poll. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday also indicates Americans are split in their choice for Congress in November’s midterm elections, with Republicans making gains at the Democrats’ expense. Forty-nine percent of Republicans questioned in the poll say they’re extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this year, up 6 points from November. Thirty-on... (more)

Sen. Byron Dorgan, a 18-year veteran Democrat, dropped a late-day bombshell, announcing he will retire when his term ends this year. Dorgan's announcement represents an opportunity for Republicans: North Dakota is a Republican-leaning state, where President Obama got just 45% of the vote last year. (more)

Democrats are moving to eliminate from the party's national convention the superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary. via Booker Rising (more)

STOP CAP & TRADE OR DEMS RISK AN EVEN GREATER SLAUGHTER IN 2010. With the looming spectre of a 2010 Democrat massacre at the ballot box, so-called moderate Senate Democrats are begging Barack Obama and the White House to stop pushing such unpopular pieces of legislation like Cap & Trade. After the Democrat partisan vote and passage of Obamacare through the Senate, many Dems fear that Cap & Trade will be yet another bill with no support from Republicans or the People. However, Obama does no... (more)

Representative Louise M. Slaughter of New York has written an op-ed for CNN.com that urges Senators to scrap a controversial healthcare bill. Echoing complaints among many liberals, Slaughter criticizes Senate Democrats for scrapping the public plan option, which Democrats -- including President Obama -- have long argued would provide competition for insurance companies and reduce the cost of coverage. Slaughter also criticizes a compromise that would restrain the provision of abortion services to person... (more)

Facing dissent from both his left and right in advance of an important vote to advance healthcare reform early Monday, the Senate's top Democrat declared that advancing the legislation will mean "rejecting a system in which one class of people can afford to stay healthy while another cannot." (more)

Congressman Bart Gordon of the 6th district of Tennessee has announced that he will not run for reelection in 2010. Gordon is a Democrat who was first elected in 1984, when 6th district incumbent Al Gore successfully ran for U.S. senator. He was then 35, a practicing lawyer who had been chairman of the Tennessee Democratic party for two years. He won the Democratic primary by a 28%-22% margin over Lincoln Davis, who has represented the adjacent 4th district since the 2002 election (more)

I was at a meeting recently local Democratic activists held. The talk was more the same of what was needed, but little action provided in making it happen. My thoughts were borderline. On one side of the fence, it's stuff I have heard time and time again... (more)