Inside Politics: The Political Forecast: More Democrats to retire this week
CNN's John King and other top political reporters empty out their notebooks each Sunday on "Inside Politics" to reveal five things that will be in the headlines in the days, weeks and months ahead.
1. Florida election results cause more Democratic exits: Watch in the week or so ahead for a few more retirements by veteran House Democrats.
I'm told the Florida special election results were the last straw for at least two and perhaps more House Democrats facing tough 2014 races.
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Leadership will make a run at persuading these lawmakers otherwise – but with hope of regaining the majority all but lost, watch the Capitol exits.
2. Jindal talking with power players about 2016: Be skeptical of a politician who says he isn't running for president but then courts key power players in New Hampshire. So be skeptical of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The Republican governor recently formed a new political action committee.
His staff now routinely fills the inboxes of national political reporters with press releases.
And as CNN's Peter Hamby told us on the program, held talks with GOP and conservative power players in the first-in-the-nation primary state, including former Governors Sununu and Merrill, GOP fixer Tom Rath and Joe McQuaid from The Union Leader.
Jindal poking fun at the former 2016 GOP frontrunner at a public breakfast in NH before his private meetings:
Jindal: @GovChristie was going to be here today...but the traffic..no, that joke's too easy. #WildIrishBreakfast
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3. Elizabeth Warren's expanding horizons: The senior senator from Massachusetts is one of the biggest attractions on the Democratic fundraising circuit. For years that could be said of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. And now of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
She is a rising liberal star, and as Jonathan Martin of the New York Times shared Sunday, is about to expand her fundraising horizons.
4. Democrats' Blue State air strikes against the Kochs: When troops need air support, they call the Air Force. When it's a politician in need, in today's world it is more often the super PACs to the rescue.
Vulnerable Senate Democrats have been complaining for months of being pummeled by TV ads funded by Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups. Now Politico's Manu Raju tells us some of those Democrats are about to get more help in the air war.
Here’s how much AFP spent in the last cycle:
5. The Latina who might turn Texas purple: Wendy Davis became a national Democratic sensation during last year's Texas Senate debate over new abortion restrictions. She is now the party's gubernatorial nominee.
But if you want to place a bet on a Democratic statewide victory in 2014, Nia Malika Henderson of The Washington Post suggests looking down-ballot a line - to the lieutenant governor's race.
The Texas Senate Gallery applauding state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte's call for equality on the floor last June:
November 2014 avelanche is coming and democrats know it.
Quit before being fired. Obamacare, the bill that just keeps inflicting pain.
I think its more running away from problems, just like the BIGGEST LIAR of The YEAR has done. Total failure rings true for this admin.
Get ready for another shellacking.
The Democrats are retiring more now because they already know they will be unable to win due to their prior support of Obama and all his failures.
Yea, right, but the dems are going to come out in DROVES and not to vote for the GOP. INCOMPETENT MORONS. Keep deluding yourselves GOP and say hi to president Romney?????
Greg Kells
You are correct. When you look at Congress as a whole it is hopelessly broken. If you think these guys (senators and congressmen) are going to take steps to fix it, then you must also believe in the tooth fairy. That would involve term limits, changing lobbying laws,recognizing bribery as a crime they all jump into on a daily basis, and changing a great many laws (gerrymandering) in general. But this will not happen. A seat in congress or the senate is very lucrative. Government cannot or will not fix itself. This time, as it has in other countries, it will take the people rising to fix it.
Greg Kells
You are correct. When you look at Congress as a whole it is hopelessly broken. If you think these guys (senators and congressmen) are going to take steps to fix it, then you must also believe in the tooth fairy. That would involve term limits, changing lobbying laws,recognizing bribery as a crime they all jump into on a daily basis, and changing a great many laws (gerrymandering) in general. But this will not happen. A seat in congress or the senate is very lucrative. Government cannot or will not fix itself. This time, as it has in other countries, it will take the people rising to fix it. If this country is going to last even another one hundred years something had better happen and quickly.
How is it that any of the majority working-classes vote Republican or Democrat in this day and age? Are you just gluttons for punishment or what?
The Democratic puppets are at last leaving the bossy government, anyhow they do not have any freedom of speech they just say what the Supreme Boss wants. the true will set you free.
These idiots reap what they sow...
Obama destabilized the Middle East, gave Putin the Ukraine, let Iran get nukes, caused a Great Recession, and the brain dead left wingnuts blame Bush?
Name jk. Sfl. GOP CRUZ LEE ISSA RUBIO GOP conservatives the GARBAGE AND SEWAGE of AMERICA what have they accomplished in the lat five years??? They lost at least 50BILLIN DOLLARS and got nothing for it just this year. says:
March 16, 2014 02:58 pm at 2:58 pm
Yea, right, but the dems are going to come out in DROVES and not to vote for the GOP. INCOMPETENT MORONS. Keep deluding yourselves GOP and say hi to president Romney?????
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LOLOLOLOL!
I wish the liberals would stop the vicious name-calling..its not Conservatives fault things are falling apart..Democrats are in power..please stop trying to blame the minority party...
vote stupid vote republican.
When Obama adopted the Bush doctrine he lost his support and thus the Dems lost theirs!!! I've never witnessed such a political suicide in my life even though he won reelection America lost as he went 100% Wall Street from which he can never retreat. We knew Romney was Wall Street but Obama was cloaked in the Bulls Shadow!!!
Haha.Democrats are running like Rats..
Each one of these buzzards need to be held accountable for giving the nation Obamacare.
Democratic retirement: The GOP game plan.
Way to represent America!
Now if there were only a few more liberal Senators looking for an early retirement.......
It's easier to retire before being fired. Obama is like a cancer to the democrats right now.