By all rights, the GOP should be walking away with the mid-term elections, a shoo-in to capture the Senate and even make gains in the House, which they already hold by a comfortable margin.<\/p>\n
After all, the job environment remains dismal.\u00a0 According to the union-backed Economic Policy Institute, if you are a recent college grad, your chances of being unemployed or underemployed are 25 percent.\u00a0 If you are a recent high school grad not going to college, those odds rise to 63 percen<\/p>\n
It is not much better for women and minorities.\u00a0 The number of women and minorities employed in the United States is all but unchanged since the Democrats took over the government in 2009.\u00a0 The incomes of both have dropped.<\/p>\n
These groups have strongly favored Mr. Obama, but the last six years have been a disaster for them.\u00a0 Normally, it would be a fair bet that many of them would elect to stay home.<\/p>\n
Then, too, with daily headlines focused on Vladimir Putin\u2019s adventurism and ISIS\u2019s latest atrocities \u2013 and with a border with Mexico that the Democrats have fought to keep effectively open now understood to be a terrorist sieve \u2014 this is shaping up to be a national security election.\u00a0 The question of the year is, \u201cAre you safer now than you were six years ago?\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s a bad question for any Democratic candidate<\/p>\n
But before getting too giddy, remember, the Democrats have a secret weapon.\u00a0 Remember all those fundraisers the president has attended? And those golf games where surely his cart mates were forking over major bucks for a round on the links with the big guy?\u00a0 Team Obama may not know how to run the government, revive the economy or keep the country out of harms way.\u00a0\u00a0 But they sure know how to raise and spend campaign money.<\/p>\n
Their spending is as sophisticated as their raising.\u00a0 Here is a sign of what they are doing and how they are doing it.<\/p>\n