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Politico: GOP getting crushed in polls, key races

In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three.

A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP...

The voters’ top three concerns about McCain: his age, his support for the war and his similarities to Bush.

Since the beginning of last year, Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the DNC have raised $460 million total — about $200 million more than what McCain, Mitt Romney and the RNC raised together in the same time span.

There is mention of similarities to the 1976 race between Ford and Carter.

Democrats will go overboard in linking McCain to Bush. Bush at present polls worse than Nixon during Watergate. Carter's strategy linked Ford to Nixon, simply calling it the Nixon-Ford administration.

Republicans will paint Obama as a "tax and spend" liberal. They are of course swimming against an economy that does not support the notion that Republicans are its deft handlers. Republicans will work at attempting to make this point invisible.

One wild card factor will obviously be racism. How far it will be countered by numbers of voters intent on Obama is an important element.