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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (26380)	2/18/2010 6:03:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I'll stick with the actual DETAILS of policy proposals, (instead of the exciting, but vague, blunderbuss-style rhetoric....) Thanks just the same though, Bill!

To: Bill who wrote (26380)	2/19/2010 12:36:31 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Radio ads slamming Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln began airing in her state this week. But the ads weren't sponsored by her Republican rivals. They were paid for by a left-leaning environmental organization. Ms. Lincoln has tried to carve out a role for herself as a centrist Democrat only to take heavy fire from both liberals and conservatives—a squeeze that has driven her poll numbers down from mediocre to woeful. By STEPHANIE SIMON .Her plight has national party activists nervous at a time when a number of Democratic senators have either declined to run again, as was the case this week with Evan Bayh of Indiana, or appear to have only a tenuous hold on their seats. Running for a third term, Ms. Lincoln trails two leading Republican contenders by roughly 20 percentage points, according to two recent polls in which her disapproval ratings hovered around 60%.