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Later this evening, President Barack Obama will head to his hometown of Chicago to attend two Democratic party fundraisers aimed to help his party help win back the House of Representatives from the Republicans.

"In the afternoon, the President will travel to Chicago. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at O’Hare International Airport are open press," Obama's schedule reads.

In an email to supporters of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi encouraged readers to sign a petition to "declare your support" for Obamacare ahead of the House plan to hold a vote on repealing the unpopular health care law. The email, which had the subject line "this has gotten out of control,"claims that the vote to repeal is "worthless," particularly because "a real repeal would actually COST money rather than save it."

Read the whole email from Pelosi below:

In a desperate plea for money, the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is telling potential donors that "Mitt Romney will sell America out if he becomes President." The Democrat is arguing that, in order to prevent this, one should make a donation.

Rep. Steve Israel, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is urging Democratic candidates to skip his party's national convention in September.

"If they want to win an election, they need to be in their districts," Israel reportedly said at a Reuters conference, according to Reuters.

"I don't care if the president was at 122 percent favorability right now," he said. "I think (candidates) should be in their districts," rather than spend time at the convention, which will be in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 3-6.

SaintPetersBlog: "Latest Florida poll: Mitt Romney 27%, Newt Gingrich 26%; no one else in double digits"

Kevin O'Brien: "Hilda Solis is on her high horse over kids on the farm"

Barney Frank -- unintentionally! -- sums up the problem: "'If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),' Frank told the Herald last night."

Making his state economically competitive? What an outrage! "Christie to pull N.J. out of cap-and-trade energy program"

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is ramping up its misleading campaign on this year's Republican House budget (which includes Medicare reforms). On a new microsite, DontEndMedicare.com, the DCCC is urging citizens to "Tell Republican Members of Congress to keep their hands off the Medicare benefits that seniors have earned," and provides a list of upcoming town hall meetings this week where they can do so.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) produced a highly misleading ad last week about the House GOP's Medicare reform plan. The ad portrayed seniors working tough jobs to pay for their health care under a plan the DCCC says would "end Medicare."

Heritage Action, a political arm of the Heritage Foundation, has released a response video, depicting children scrounging for money to pay for unfunded entitlement liabilities. Take a look:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is out today with a new advertisement targeting freshman Republican House members from districts that had previously elected Democrats. The ad juxtaposes campaign ads and appearances from last year's election, when the GOP candidates said they'll protect Medicare for seniors, with those representatives' votes this month to "end Medicare." Watch below:

Last week, Sarah Palin, a former vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party and grassroots darling who serves in no elected or official capacity, tweeted a link to a Thomas Sowell column that included a reference to Nazi tactics. Democrats were outraged that she seemingly endorsed the comparison Sowell made.

The first signs that the Republicans were in for a terrible November in 1974 came in February of that year. Pennsylvania’s 12th District, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of West Central Pennsylvania, had elected a Republican to Congress in every election for a century except in the very worst Republican years: 1922, 1934, and 1948. In 1972, it had reelected its 12-term congressman, John P. Saylor, with 68 percent of the vote. 

Hawaii's special election to fill Rep. Neil Abercrombie's seat has been getting generous buzz for a week as Republican candidate Charles Djou has unexpectedly pulled even with possible Democrat challengers in Obama's home district. Abercrombie is running for governor.