But I think it's really to remember is, that to get to 60 seats, these three races - at least one of them have to go Democrats way, between Kentucky and Georgia and Mississippi.
If the Democrats go along with the reforms, it will be a feather in the caps of the Republican House.
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But if Democrats go it alone, by one line of reasoning, there is no reason not to get as much as possible.
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This is important to remember when Democrats go to the bargaining table.
For one thing, the absence of that majority helps the chancellor, a right-winger as Social Democrats go, to discipline his party's restive left.
Washington (CNN) -- The House has just adjourned -- a week early -- to go home so Democrats can run for their political lives.
No surprise there--if Charles Schumer, one of the most prominent members of Congress, and Kirsten Gillibrand want to raise money, the Democrats go where the rivers of cash run deepest.
One would expect Democrats to go for a heavy-handed, regulatory approach to governing money in politics.
Of course, the idea that either Obama or congressional Democrats would go along with this is a fantasy.
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If things go badly for Texas Democrats, expect to see some early retirements.
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How many new people, how many independents, non-Democrats actually go to caucus because you don't have to decide in advance.
Not all Democrats would go that far, but almost all do feel it's time to end U.S. involvement in Iraq.
It is not an easy sell to Democrats to go along as part of a big deal with superlative CPI.
He said he hopes Democrats will go along with the idea because Specter is independent and has an understanding of the issues.
To force Democrats to go along with the budgetary cuts, Republicans hold the most valuable chip available in this game of brinkmanship.
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And you harkened back, as we often hear in Washington, to the days when Republicans and Democrats would go out and have a drink and everybody got along.
It is not an easy argument necessarily to get Democrats to go along with the reforms that the President has put in place in his proposal on entitlement reforms or with the spending cuts.
Nor may the liberal Free Democrats, who would love to go into a local coalition with the Social Democrats, not least to prove to Mr Kohl, with whom they are in alliance in Bonn, that they have other options.
News on Monday that two more Wall Street institutions had faltered -- 158-year-old Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch accepted an offer to be bought out by Bank of America -- allowed the Democrats to go on the attack after being mostly on the defensive when the political debate focused on Palin and whether the phrase "lipstick on a pig" was sexist.
But as I was reflecting afterward on those discussions, it struck me that the Democrats haven't fully grasped how deep their linguistic problems go, or how they directly reflect the Democrats' inability to tell a coherent story about themselves (I mean over and above observing tautologically that they aren't Republicans).
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Democrats want to go home, tell their constituents about all the hard work they've done.
Clearly though, the administration is going to go forward despite objections from Democrats and European allies.
On that day another round of budget cuts go into effect, unless Democrats and Republicans can reach a new budget agreement.
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But one thing that I think we're going to have to do as Democrats when we go after the Republicans is -- the question is not tax cuts, tax hikes.
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All of this explains why poll after poll shows Republicans fired up and ready to go in November, and Democrats thinking they are walking their own slow walk to the execution chamber.
If Democrats choose to go it alone, the public health insurance option is likely to be back on the table, because there would be no need to win the votes of Republicans or conservative Democrats.
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Other Democrats want to go even further.
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Whether Feingold decides to take another shot at the Senate or the Democrats decide to go with a generational change, this is going to be a rare opportunity to see a clash of ideologies in a race where Madison, Wisconsin promises to look a great deal more like Madison Square Garden.
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