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The “most ethical Congress in history.” The Photo That Could Doom the Democrats

Dateline: The Daily Beast - “ Rangel has taken care of himself as well, using rent-controlled apartments given to him by a Manhattan developer,and failing to pay income tax on a three-bedroom villa in the Dominican Republic (where he’s been pictured napping). “ A Democratic source says party pollsters are picking up rumblings that the Rangel scandal is starting to register with the public. ” To understand why the Rangel scandals are so dangerous for Democrats, you need to understand something about midterm landslides: They’re usually composed of three parts. First, the other party’s activists are highly motivated. Second, your own activists are highly unmotivated. Third, independents want to burn Washington to the ground. There’s nothing Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi can do about the first problem. The stimulus, the bank bailouts, the auto-takeover and the health-care push have convinced large numbers of aging white people that Obama is Mao Zedong, and they’re not going to change their mind anytime soon. The best response to the second problem is to pass health-care reform and give Keith Olbermann something to get excited about. But perhaps most crucial of all is responding to problem No. 3. Independents are the most fickle, the most cynical, and the least ideological people in the American electorate. When they’re unhappy with the state of the country, they tend to stampede the party in power— ” I guess the 60-Minutes segment on Rang - what?  They didn't?  Never mind. Must be all the e-mailed stories about this corrupt Democrat  congress that's resonating.  Clip and send.                                                                          via MMX FLEX