Many of McCaskill's fellow Democrats in Congress may also decide they are too busy to be with Obama, whose approval rating of about 40 percent as the economy struggles threatens to be a drag on their own reelection chances next year.

"I don't know what others will do but I say we need to run as a team," said Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown,

"In West Virginia, politics is not a team sport -- meaning hang on and do the best for yourself," said the state's first-term Democratic senator, Joe Manchin.

Wouldn't want to make a decision to support him based on whether or not you agree with his policies, right? Farking tards.

Tarkus: Congress is polling at 3%, they could use the 37 point boost.

/FTFM

What are you talking about? They ran away from him in 2010 and look how great they did!

Politicians making political moves to insulate their cushy jobs? I never!

Sybarite: McCaskill will be lurching right as hard as she can in advance of next year's election, but she's probably still going to end up losing to Sarah Steelman (who I think is likely to be the Republican nominee). Karl Rove's PAC has already started running ads against her.

I voted for her last time, but she's been more or less a blue dog already. She has little room to lurch right.

Tarkus: Congress is polling at 3%, they could the 37 point boost.

Agreed.

And the article sure looks more like a reasonable split between on board and cautious.

Subby must be concerned.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin

If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat. - Harry Truman

Feckless morons like McCaskill and Manchin should take note.

that will make it so Obama can't raise any funding for his campaign, oh wait!

McCaskill can't win, because she lives in Missouri. But she wants to win, so she'll pretend to hate Obama. Won't work though. But the alternative wouldn't work either.

Eh, who cares. In the US we vote for individual candidates anyhow, it's a republic on a non-parliamentary model. We don't just cast our vote for x unelected corporation and then let them pick an eligible person for the seat, so who cares if they run as a unit.

I mean, from a personal standpoint an association and willingness to work with the current president would be a plus for a candidate (one of the guys running for senate in my state has already lost me by basing his campaign entirely on hurr durr Obama bad and ignoring any kind of policy issue) but I don't think I'm in the swing demographic for the next election so nobody cares about that either.

//Side note: I don't think any candidate or journalist that's used the phrase "conservative credentials" has been anything but useless and annoying so far.

She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

Hollie Maea: McCaskill can't win, because she lives in Missouri. But she wants to win, so she'll pretend to hate Obama. Won't work though. But the alternative wouldn't work either.

Missouri is an odd state. We're not blue, we're not red. We're a purple as they come. With the current epidemic of Obama Derangement Syndrome, though, and the rampant outbreak of Teabaggeritis, I'd wager you're right.

I still can't believe Ike Skelton lost his House seat in 2010. Hoe-lee-schit. I was sure he was going to die in office.

My CSB moment: Ike grew up with my grandfather. When I visited DC in 1994, I was in his office chatting with him when the voting bell rang, so he took me and my folks on the private Congressional subway over to the Capitol building and put us up in the family gallery in the House to wait while he voted. As a junior in high school, I didn't fully appreciate the gravity of that, but as an adult politics junkie, I realize now that was SO COOL. Would never happen today, either, thanks to 9/11.

Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

Goddammit, Missouri. This is why we can't have nice things.

The teabaggers in my state can suck it.

I've been pretty reliably disappointed by Obama on every single issue. That said, he's the leader of your party, chosen by a popular vote and rocketed into official office as the POTUS. On top of that, you support his policies hands-down. Either get behind him, or get out of the party, because it is you who is tainting the future of this country.

For the record, I don't support the idea of political parties to begin with... but if you're a member of one, you need to act like it or get the hell out.

Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

No, Joe Manchin, please, don't withold the support of West Virginia from Obama! He's counting on the illiterate, sister-farking methhead contingency with your support!!!

Look at your own state, hayseed. Methinks you're a little reversed on who's the albatross around whose neck.

Another useless Blue Dog. Maybe if she was worried about Americans who weren't millionaires, her approval ratings would be a little higher. Nice to see that putting America back to work is too liberal for some "democrats".

unlikely: If he'd had a spine and stood up for something more than "give the republicans more than they asked for by 10%" he'd probably be more popular.

If congress had shown some spine and given him some support he might have been in better shape to have that spine too.

We'll never know, because the achordate congress capitulated backwards to the achordate president for four years, and we are where we are and the speculation is useless. Alas.

achordate (twice), heh.

Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Well see he was in the break room with 2 other people and only 1 other person liked Health Care Reform bill, oh wait I mean 0bamacare, since 66% rounds nice to 70% that's how he got that number.

TNel: Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Well see he was in the break room with 2 other people and only 1 other person liked Health Care Reform bill, oh wait I mean 0bamacare, since 66% rounds nice to 70% that's how he got that number.

At the very least, I like it that insurance companies can't just take my money and give nothing back anymore.

Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Umm, the voters?

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wmoonfox: I've been pretty reliably disappointed by Obama on every single issue. That said, he's the leader of your party, chosen by a popular vote and rocketed into official office as the POTUS. On top of that, you support his policies hands-down. Either get behind him, or get out of the party, because it is you who is tainting the future of this country.

For the record, I don't support the idea of political parties to begin with... but if you're a member of one, you need to act like it or get the hell out.

The president is not automatically the chairman of his party, and in fact Obama has prioritized a rational scheme of governance over the party policies and the party welfare on numerous occasions, and leans a bit right relative to the average Dem viewpoint on many if not most issue.

Which is great, but it definitely means he's neither the party's leader nor its representative. Which, again, is great, it's one of the ways he's a good president. The last guy was a party man, if you'll recall, and that didn't turn out so hot.

Pine Oil Funeral: Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Umm, the voters?

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Not the same thing at all.

Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Umm, the voters?

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Not the same thing at all.

Oh, and Jane Cunningham needs to die in a fire.

Pine Oil Funeral: Alphax: Pine Oil Funeral: She's toast anyway. She voted for Obamacare which was rejected by the voters of Missouri by like 70%.

According to whom?

Umm, the voters?

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"It's the vote heard 'round the world," said Dwight Janson, 53, from Glendale, clad in an American flag-patterned shirt.

How else are you going to prove to people you love America more than anyone else?

Bloody Templar: Missouri is an odd state. We're not blue, we're not red. We're a purple as they come.

That was true 6 years ago. But it's not true any more. You've gone from being the most reliable bellweather state ever to leaning fairly significantly red.

That's what happens when you run as a guy who is going to change things but actually you're just another Republican corporatist chumpstain.

I'll be avoiding him when I pull the lever this year, too.

Jim_Callahan: The president is not automatically the chairman of his party

Sorry -- I did not intend to suggest that it did. In fact, I don't know how internal party politics work, or that they had an official chairman. What I meant was that, as the presumed Democratic candidate in the upcoming Presidential election, he is at the tip of the spear in terms of the party's political aspirations and deserves the support of anyone who claims membership.

Apologies for the poor grammar. I'm kinda half-listening to a conference call at the moment.

Smelly McUgly: That's what happens when you run as a guy who is going to change things but actually you're just another Republican corporatist chumpstain.

I'll be avoiding him when I pull the lever this next year, too.

Maybe I should not try to do two things at once. Ugh.

Lando Lincoln: That oughta do it.

Blind someone with the tackiness? Yep.

I'd be more willing to read a lot into this if I hadn't seen politicians do this all my life. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they stay away, but I don't consider it any big deal.

Lando Lincoln: Car_Ramrod: "It's the vote heard 'round the world," said Dwight Janson, 53, from Glendale, clad in an American flag-patterned shirt.

How else are you going to prove to people you love America more than anyone else?

Hmmm.

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That oughta do it.

Not enough. If you really, REALLY love America you have to rub your dick against it.

Protip: He's unpopular because he's too far right, giving the middle finger to his supporters week after week, month after month, year after year.

WTF does no one understand that?

But then again... if you're left of Obama (which isn't hard), you need to show the voters you will vote liberal. So, I guess distancing yourself is good. But it doesn't matter if we keep the senate and/or retake the house... if we lose the presidency, we're farked.

Hey, go ahead and bail out on Obama, all you Democrats who are crawling into your caves right now. Feel free.

Just be ready in 2012, if you take too much support with you, to enjoy four years of rootin' tootin' world-savin' America F*ck Yeah! President Romney.


/and that's the BEST-CASE scenario

Smelly McUgly: That's what happens when you run as a guy who is going to change things but actually you're just another Republican corporatist chumpstain.

I'll be avoiding him when I pull the lever this year, too.

And you'll be voting for... ummmm.... other?

I don't disagree with you about Obama, but looking at his theoretical competition from the GOP so far... really? Or are you going protest vote?

winterwhile: Five Tails of Fury: Hey, go ahead and bail out on Obama, all you Democrats who are crawling into your caves right now. Feel free.

Just be ready in 2012, if you take too much support with you, to enjoy four years of rootin' tootin' world-savin' America F*ck Yeah! President Romney.


/and that's the BEST-CASE scenario

they be jumpin of the sinkin ship

best case is we fark-can Obamacare soon and fix America after Obama is gone



"They be jumpin'?

You sound............winterville.

Concern Trolling

1 or a few Democrats want to distance themselves from Obama.

VS

100% of Republicans running in 2008 did not want GWB to come anywhere near them.

Protip: He's unpopular because he's too far right, giving the middle finger to his supporters week after week, month after month, year after year.

You have it backwards.

Obama has attempted to govern as a progressive but his ideology has failed him in spades (which is no suprise). If anything, the progressive movement owes Barack Obama an apology for leading him astray his whole life and making an ass out of him when he got his first job in the real world.

jake3988 WTF does no one understand that?

Because it's farking absurd.

Progressives will never hang on to power until they understand that 40% is more than 20%.

MFL: dumb words

Given that right-wing dogma has farked the entire world in the ass for the last 30 years, I'd say you idiots have very little leg to stand on.