Speaking Wednesday, New York Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Schumer expressed confidence in his party’s chances of securing victory in the upcoming 2012 election.
“When you look at it from 30,000 feet, it looks bad,” Mr. Schumer said. “You look at it race by race, it looks good.”
“It’s almost impossible to say we’ll lose the Senate,” Mr. Schumer added.
The New York Democrat said he expects voters to oppose “tea party economics,” adding that support for President Obama’s jobs plan is growing.
“I talked to the president last Friday, and they are very busy looking at it very carefully,” Mr. Schumer said. “In the Senate, we are going to embark on it and hopefully the president will too.”
Mr. Schumer noted that Democrats will focus on aligning the Republican Party with the Tea Party movement, noting that he thinks Tea Party Republicans overplayed their hand during the debate over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
“By linking the GOP to its extreme Tea Party fringe, Democrats can bolster the prospects or the president’s jobs ideas, or at least make clear who is responsible for the stalling of the recovery,” Mr. Schumer wrote in a memo to “interested parties.”
The New York Democrat also acknowledge the growing rift between the Obama administration and Congress, saying that he understand Mr. Obama’s strategy to blame the dismal economy on a “do-nothing Congress.” But in recent days, the president has narrowed his attacks to congressional Republicans, Mr.Schumer said.
