Election 2010 Direct-Mail Analysis, Part 2

The Democrats, understandably, acknowledged the public's frustration with the bad economy. "I wish I could tell you … that the economy is going to get back to full strength right away," the president says in one letter. But, he reminds supporters, "it was Republicans who drove the car into the ditch" (Who's Mailing What Archive code #608-173651-1009C). Casting the election as a choice between "the party of NO" and "lasting party of progress" was a common theme of Democratic efforts to keep control of both houses of Congress.