Democrats Are Freaking Out

This quote from First Read: Found it at Politico:

"If we told you that Democrats were favored to lose about eight Senate seats (six of which are in states Obama carried in '08), lose some 30 to 40 in the House, and see their top domestic issue -- health care -- stalled in Congress, you'd guess that President Obama's approval rating was, what, 35%? Maybe 40%? But as any close follower of American politics knows, Obama's approval is at or near 50% (even at 53% in the always-volatile Gallup daily track). Yet Democrats, including what we saw and heard from Evan Bayh yesterday, are behaving like Obama is at 35%. This is particularly ironic when we're just a year-plus removed from a president whose approval was 25% to 30%. There is no doubt that this is a TOUGH political environment for Democrats, but are they making it tougher by running for the hills when things might not be as bad for them as was the GOP's situation from 2006-2008? And what does it say about the Democrats and their ability to govern when they're acting like this when their president is at 50%? Republicans rallied around their president in '04, when he was hovering around 50%."

Not Looking Good For Dems

Because of bad jobs and the glacial pace of health care, people are angry. And so they should be. But this is not boding well for dems. There is a possibility that dems could lose up about 5-7 senate seats. Even senators who have a long history of good politics in solid dem states are at risk.

CQ politics has a good graphic up that says there are 9 toss up races. And most of those are currently held by dems. To add to the frustration there's this:

"Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) 'once rock solid approval rating has taken a slide. For the first time in nearly nine years, Schumer's approval rating has fallen below 50%.'"

Yea, that is right. Chuck seems to be taking a hit as well. Dems need to change the tune to this year's election quickly.