(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden had a strong message for fellow Democrats on Friday: After Election Day, expect to keep a majority in Congress.

"I'm here to tell you that on November 3, the day after this coming election, there will be in Washington, D.C., a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate," Biden said at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. He joked, "and were it not illegal, I'd make book on it!"

Paraphrasing Mark Twain, the vice president said that reports of the death of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

Polls have shown that congressional Democrats are facing an uphill challenge this year. Biden said that a large part of that has to do with Americans blaming their problems on the people at the top.

"Many [Americans] are stripped of their dignity. And they look out there, and they focus on the only person who's there, the only one they see -- and that's the president of the United States and the Democratic Congress."

But come Labor Day, he said, Americans are going to begin to compare the two parties and see major differences.

"When they start to look at the alternative, they're going to see, and I'm going to get in trouble for saying this ... this ain't your father's Republican Party. This is the Republican Tea Party," he said to loud applause.

"The Republican Party of 2010 is the party of repeal and repeat," he added. "Repeat the old practices of the past. I believe it's out of step where the American people are. It's our job between now and the election to draw those distinctions."

Republicans have consistently hit back at Democrats, saying they are pursuing policies of big government and wasteful spending. GOP leaders argue that the American public, as witnessed in the polls and at Tea Party rallies across the country, are angry at the Democrats and want a change.
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The dems also have a new ad out, in which they show a pic of pres. bush saying something, and a caption at the bottom says "You fool me, you can't get fooled again." sounds kinda stupid, IMO

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/20/biden.dnc.meeting/index.html?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker

hm...this was an interesting read. do you think this is viable?

naw, i think they are scared right now. obama is doing stupid things right now, and not getting other things done. one more big screw up and da dems be gone...lol

He must be drunk again!!

anything is possible, david duke was once elected to political office in this country, bush was RE elected,,,,

when it comes down to the actual candidates, personal attacks tend to trump political affiliations,,,

No, but they have to present a united front. Dems are going to lose the House and probably the Senate this election cycle along with many state and local elections.

Or, smokin' mo' crack.

here in nevada, its certainly not so clean cut,, cant be the only state where that is true

Angle and Lowden arent exactly kicking Reids but,,its very tight, with Reids numbers increasing and Angles slowing down,,,,


nationally speaking, people like to lump together the candidates by political affiliation, but in local elections , people pay closer attention to what the actual individual candidates do and say


I have forgone the democratic candidate plenty of times when I thought they werent the best candidate,,,,,,I just think one never knows when it comes to elections,,,its more like american idol or dancing with the stars(popularity contest) than anything else unless its the presidential election

Ummmmm, Lowden's been out of the race since early June........... When she was in the race she was polling double digits over Reid.

Actually Angle is still beating read by a few points. Reid started with $25,000,000 in the bank(Mostly from out of state donations) and is now down to around $7,000,000. All of that went to negative attack ad's against Angle. Reid is playing dirty and I don't respect polititians who do that.

Angle will pull through and oust Reid in November.

like I said, one never knows, her numbers are slipping, its undebatably a tight race

And lets not forget Reids son is also running for public office, but does'nt want anyone to know his last name!!

Silly liberals, always got something to hide!!

Yea, but he is trailing by over 20 points and he looks like a pedophile!

Even though the Dems have been the party to blame for the recession and such, they have done a fair job.

I believe people are not so stupid to believe all the rhetoric that blames the dems for everything.

Or all the crap about liberals coming from those who can't even legitimately define a liberal

Thats why Dems are losing almost every race that been held since 2009?

Not