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With the Senate’s 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a healthcare bill that the president is seeking by year’s end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined.

Democrats, in control of the White House and Congress, will present the congressional elections as a question of fulfilling an agenda of progress and change and keeping ‘the party of no,’ the intransigent GOP, in check.
Republicans will frame the midterms as a chance to reclaim at least part of Congress from a party trying to take over not just healthcare and imposing big government, big spending and taxation on every aspect of life -- ‘socialization,’ a leading Republican senator calls it.

Full story: Reaction to Senate healthcare vote offers a preview of 2010 campaigns

-- Mark Silva