DemNotes: "The Colorado Democratic Party is pleased to announce that DNC Chairman Howard Dean will be attending a fundraising luncheon on Thursday, July 14. Please save the date. Additional details will be announced soon."
Robert Kuttner: "It's 8:30 on a sparkling June evening, and leaders of Montana's resurgent Democratic Party are hosting a river trip for the annual meeting of the party's Western States Caucus. The group of nearly 100 party leaders and elected offcials is motoring through the canyon of the Missouri River that Captain Meriwether Lewis, 200 years ago this July, named the Gates of the Rocky Mountains. At a narrow bend, river pilot Tim Crawford swings the Sacajawea II around 180 degrees, and the passage literally looks like immense rocky gates opening and closing. As the setting sun lights up the peaks, Howard Dean, in town for the gathering, peers up the canyon's sheer, 800-foot limestone walls, and spots a bald eagle nested atop one of the ponderosa pines. Turkey buzzards circle, but the group's good spirits suggest that the birds are looking for Republicans."
Political Wire: "Though 56% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, a new Democracy Corps poll also shows that voters have more positive feelings about Republicans. Specifically, 43% of voters favor the Republican Party, while 38% had positive feelings about Democrats."
Political Wire: "'In a potential preview of what may become a more public fight between the duo for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination,' Sen. George Allen (R-VA) 'has publicly questioned' Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's (R-TN) handling of a number of recent high-profile issues, Roll Call reports. Many observers note that 'the issues the Virginian has picked to champion are touchstones for social conservatives who will be critical in the 2008 nominating process.'"
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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