"If they want to win an election, they need to be in their districts," says NY Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill ... will not attend [the national convention in Charlotte, NC], an aide said....
Three Democratic lawmakers from West Virginia ... have said they also will pass on Charlotte: Senator Joe Manchin, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Representative Nick Rahall.
Three other endangered Democrats in the U.S. House--Pennsylvania's Mark Critz, New York's Kathy Hochul and Bill Owens, also of New York--have said that they will stay away from Charlotte....
In Montana ... where there is a competitive U.S. Senate race, Democratic Senator John Tester and his challenger, Republican Representative Denny Rehberg, will both skip their parties' conventions.
Why of course. After all, it was Democrats who passed a House bill demolishing Medicare as we know it. It's Democrats who for the last two years have done nothing to create jobs. It's Democrats who have substituted job creation with a medieval attitude toward, not to mention medieval treatment of, women and women's rights. It's Democrats who have blocked road construction and bridge repair and have pushed student loan rates to the edge of disaster. It is Democrats in a McCarthyite witch hunt who are consuming official time through idiotic talk of gun-control conspiracies. And it was Democrats who damn near blew up the country over a routine debt-limit increase.
Jesus! No wonder the above-cited are reluctant to join their fellow Democrats at the national convention. If they meet to brag about a record that brazenly contemptuous of the American electorate, they're sure to lose.