USA: Candidates start final midterm election campaign push

Record ID: 347723

  • Title: USA: Candidates start final midterm election campaign push
  • Date: 2nd November 2010
  • Summary: ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 1, 2010) (REUTERS) MUNICIPAL WORKERS LOOKING AT POLLING SUPPLIES IN MUNICIPAL OFFICE COUNTY MUNICIPAL WORKER SHOWING POLLING SUPPLIES TO POLLING WORKER POLLING WORKERS SIGNING FOR EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES ROLLS OF "I VOTED IN ARLINGTON" DECALS FOR VOTERS IN BOX AND SIGNS FOR "POLLING PLACE" ON TABLE MUNICIPAL WORKER SHOWING S
  • Embargoed: 17th November 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Economic News
  • Reuters ID: LVABROLITVZIX045IO3WBYI1OIPQ
  • Story Text: One day before a bitter election season is due to end, candidates across the United States initiated their final campaign pushes Monday (November 1).
    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton appeared at a campaign event for Scott Murphy, a Democratic congressman in New York who is running for re-election. Clinton acknowledged that he has been busier than he expected during this year's campaign season.
    "I wound up doing so many events because I am concerned that in the throws of this terrible recession we've been in, where people are so upset, that we've been a fact-free election where a lot of voters are going to get the exact result they don't want. This is not about right and left. This is about tomorrow versus yesterday," Clinton said at the campaign rally.
    Republicans appear to be headed to a smashing victory they said would be a repudiation of President Barack Obama and his policies.
    Spurred by voter discontent with the ailing economy and with Obama, Republicans are expected to recapture control of the House of Representatives and make big Senate gains on Tuesday.
    Democrats hope to hang on to a narrow majority in the Senate by pulling out victories in a few tight Senate races in states like California, Washington and West Virginia.
    Republican leaders said the results will be a rejection of Obama's economic leadership, which includes costly government programs like the economic stimulus and broad initiatives like the healthcare overhaul.
    In Delaware, tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, took the airwaves with a 30 minute campaign program Monday. The duration of the ad is rare in American politics.
    "And it's heart-breaking. Many Delaware small business owners have expressed to me their concern that if these tax increases come, they'll be forced to shut their doors. This is what's happening to the family-owned businesses that give Delaware such a vibrant personality and make Delaware so unique. We should not be enacting policies that force individual business owners to close their door," O'Donnell said in the video.
    According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, fifty percent of likely voters said they will choose a Republican candidate when they vote while 44 percent said they will pick a Democrat.
    Republicans are likely to win some 231 seats in the House and take control of the chamber, the poll projected. Ipsos pollster Cliff Young predicted Democrats would hang on to control of the Senate with either a margin of 52 seats to 48 for Republicans or 53-47.
    Obama has enjoyed one-party rule in Washington since taking power nearly two years ago. The election result, if it plays out the way the pollsters say it will, would mark a stark reversal of fortunes for him.
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