49 Quotes by Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

There is no doubt the voters of Delaware really love Bill Roth. It's not that they don't know him. It's a question of whether they think it's time to give him a gold watch and have someone else for the future.

Murkowski has had significant problems over the past few months, establishing herself apart from her father, Gov. Frank Murkowski, who's not popular ... He appointed her to the office.

Maybe he can put this back on the radar screen as a focus of attention for conservative Republicans. But it's a lot harder when your own party controls Congress, and now you're talking about the line-item veto because they can't control themselves or the president can't control them.

Friends in high places, as you might say, are important to voters as well as the politicians, and Akaka can claim having friends in high places ? most Democrats in the U.S. Senate, for example.

He does not have a reservoir of good will, either in Congress or in the country. People in Congress are looking for ways to disagree with him. Democrats don't seem intimidated by him. And the public doesn't see him as honest, forthright or as much as a leader as they did a year ago. He's considerably weaker.

There is an aggressiveness coming out of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that I haven't seen in the past.

There are signs that Hackett seems a little embittered, ... If he runs an aggressive race that attacks Sherrod Brown, it could divide the party.

I think we do know for sure that there are plenty of interesting races in the Senate and that this will be used in Senate races but we don't know exactly what kind of effect it's going to have.