"Democratic leader needles GOP: tea party has already won civil war"

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Democratic leader needles GOP: tea party has already won civil war

By Francine Kiefer at the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2014/0507/Democratic-leader-needles-GOP-tea-party-has-already-won-civil-war?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily&utm_campaign=20140507_Newsletter%3ADaily_Sailthru&cmpid=ema%3Anws%3ADaily%2520Newsletter%2520%2805-07-2014%29

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Looking forward to the midterm elections, she dismisses the importance of a recent poll suggesting that more Americans would vote for a Republican candidate for Congress over a Democrat. This “generic ballot” polling doesn’t take into account specific races, issues, and Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts, Wasserman Schultz said. She predicted that Democrats would oust Republican governors in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maine and also have opportunities to win US Senate races in Kentucky, Georgia, and possibly Mississippi.

Vulnerable Democratic senators are in “challenging races,” she admitted, but “we have incumbent members who ... know their people that they represent, and I think we’ll be successful in November.”

She emphasized a superior ground game in registering and mobilizing voters, a must-do for Democrats who traditionally trail Republican turnout in off-year elections – especially with a president with drooping job approval.

The GOP, though, has upped its game with investment in technology and ground forces. Wasserman Schultz pooh-poohed that effort. “While the Republicans are funding some bells and whistles, culturally, the problem that they have is that you don’t just throw a bunch of money at high-tech tools, flip a switch, and boom, you have a grass roots network,” she said. “It takes years to build that culture."




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