From the Republican Convention: “ Obama is offering more middle-class tax relief than John McCain"

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13118.html

"Obama is offering more middle-class tax relief than John McCain

Is there anybody on the panel who doesn’t think Republicans will lose House and Senate seats?”

Moderator Jim VandeHei, executive editor of Politico, asked: “Is there anybody on the panel who doesn’t think Republicans will lose House and Senate seats?”

For a long moment, the panel was silent, before Cantor and DeLay jumped in with the less-than-optimistic prediction that Republican congressional candidates would not fare as poorly as expected.

Democrats could reap electoral rewards from several years of political organizing, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said, a sentiment echoed by several other prominent conservatives.

On the eve of John McCain’s formal nomination Thursday at the Republican National Convention, top Republicans acknowledged that Democrats will hold a significant organizational advantage in the fall campaign. Before the 2006 congressional elections, “the left and the Democrats had spent seven years putting together one of the most powerful political coalitions that had ever been built,” DeLay said Wednesday.
“The left has been incredible. They went and decided to put resources to work,” said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the third-ranking House Republican. “When you’re talking about the tactics, when you’re talking about the organization, ... that’s where we’re at a disadvantage.”

Cantor cited as an example the e-mail and text message database Barack Obama’s campaign used to announce the name of his running mate.

“That e-mail list or text list now just inures to the benefit of the Obama campaign,” he said. “It really gives them an organizational advantage.”

“I think John McCain needs to make a real, substantive case about how he’s going to help average voters with their cost of living, on energy, on health care and on taxes,” Lowry said.

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1. K&R

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3. tks

[Ian David]

2. "We didn't LOSE the seats. I mean, we know where they are...

"... but now when we go there, there's some new guy doing it."

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4. lol

[Mojambo]

5. That is an AWESOME graphic! n/t

[panAmerican]

6. What was that word? "Organization," did he say?!

“The left has been incredible. They went and decided to put resources to work,” said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the third-ranking House Republican. “When you’re talking about the tactics, when you’re talking about the organization, ... that’s where we’re at a disadvantage.”

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7. K&R (#4) The side-by-side tax breaks for each band of the income distribution are at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6923131 ,
with links to the Brookings/Urban Institute report that estimated them.