Politics - Democratic Party

'Robust' Public Insurance Option May Have House Majority
CQPolitics.com – Wed Oct 21, 2:07 pm ET

House Democrats are "right around" the 218 votes needed to pass a health care overhaul bill that includes a "robust" public insurance option, according to a member of the leadership. Full Story »
Money Chase: National GOP Banks More Than Democrats
CQPolitics.com – Tue Oct 20, 11:23 pm ET

Republican National Committee outraised the Democratic National Committee in September, but the DNC took in more money than its counterpart in the third quarter. Full Story »
Open House Seats: Democrats Starting Strong
CQPolitics.com – Tue Oct 20, 12:10 am ET

Democratic strategists are bracing for losses in the 2010 midterm elections, but the party has shown early fundraising strength in some open House districts they hope to wrest from Republican control and while offsetting expected defeats elsewhere in the nation. Full Story »
Tensions rise among Senate Dems
Politico – Mon Oct 19, 9:00 pm ET

Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid had assembled his leadership team for a quick strategy session at the Capitol last week when somebody noticed that Sen. Chuck Schumer was absent. Full Story »
N.Y. Dems agitate for Rangel action
Politico – Mon Oct 19, 6:21 am ET

Support for Charles Rangel within his home state delegation is showing signs of strain — with upstate New York Democrats grumbling about the impact of Rangel’s ethics woes on their already tenuous reelection chances. Full Story »
Post Endorses Deeds in Va. Governor Race
CQPolitics.com – Sun Oct 18, 10:07 am ET

Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for the Virginia governorship, has received the endorsement of the editorial page of the Washington Post -- the same organ that helped him win the Democratic primary in June. Full Story »
Dems see path for Deeds in Virginia
Politico – Sun Oct 18, 8:13 am ET

With just over two weeks left until Virginia’s gubernatorial election, Democrat Creigh Deeds is left with a narrow path to victory, one that hinges on energizing key demographic groups and the durability of the Old Dominion’s new politics. Full Story »
Exclusive: How Dems set stage for corporate-backed health care campaign
Politico – Fri Oct 16, 6:04 am ET

At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform. Full Story »
No Snowementum: Centrists not sold
Politico – Wed Oct 14, 7:51 pm ET

Senate Democrats took their newfound momentum for health reform into closed-door talks with White House aides Wednesday but still faced a months-old problem: centrist Democrats who aren’t sold on Obama-style reform even now. Full Story »
Dems launch attack on insurers
Politico – Wed Oct 14, 10:59 am ET

The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke a key federal protection for the insurance industry. Full Story »
Watering down the public option
Politico – Sat Oct 10, 7:49 pm ET

Senate Democrats are growing increasingly bold in predicting a public health insurance option will pass Congress this year, defying months of pessimism and outright opposition from party moderates. Full Story »
Dems beg Deeds for positive message
Politico – Wed Oct 7, 10:28 pm ET

Influential Virginia Democrats are calling on gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds to spend less time attacking Republican Bob McDonnell's controversial graduate thesis and focus on a stronger, more positive message for the closing weeks of his campaign. Full Story »
Dems struggle for Gitmo deal
Politico – Wed Oct 7, 9:25 pm ET

Democrats pushed ahead Wednesday with a $42.8 billion homeland security budget that keeps alive the goal of closing Guantanamo someday while preserving President Barack Obama’s discretion — in the interim — to bring detainees into the United States for short periods to stand trial. Full Story »
Obama's Fundraising Three-Peat in The Big Apple
CQPolitics.com – Wed Oct 7, 4:10 pm ET

The Democratic National Committee aims to cash in a third time on President Obama's star power this month with a fundraiser in New York City that will cost $30,400 per couple. Full Story »
Rangel retains Ways and Means gavel
Politico – Wed Oct 7, 3:45 pm ET

Democrats easily rebuffed another Republican attempt to remove Rep. Charles Rangel from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. But there was a small sign of eroding support for the embattled New York Democrat: Mississippi’s two House Democrats voted against him. Full Story »
Despite Defections, Democrats Derail Minority's Bid to Push Aside Rangel
CQPolitics.com – Wed Oct 7, 2:18 pm ET

Despite the first tiny glimmer of a centrist revolt, House Democrats on Wednesday quashed a GOP bid to force Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel to step aside until an ethics probe is resolved. Full Story »
House Democrats Consider Medicaid Twist
CQPolitics.com – Wed Oct 7, 2:05 pm ET

House Democratic leaders, desperate to cut the cost of a health care overhaul, are considering steps as drastic as increasing the size of the legislation's proposed expansion of Medicaid, lawmakers said Wednesday. Full Story »
Dems: GOP rooting against America
Politico – Mon Oct 5, 5:48 am ET

During the Bush era, Republicans from Karl Rove to Joe Wilson questioned — in ways both veiled and overt — the patriotism of Democrats who challenged the administration’s Iraq policy, pre-war intelligence and surveillance programs. Full Story »