I am hoping Trey Gowdy’s hearings will create enough outrage to push us over the top. An added bonus would be criminal charges for some of Obama’s apparatchiks.
I predict that thanks to the cretinous leadership of the GOP, we will only gain 2 or 3 seats.
A factor in determining GOP success in 2014 should be their attack and alienation of their base. Is there a historical model that considers this. I don’t remember when a political party was so openly hostile to their largest voting block. Another factor is turn out. Can the Rats pay enough people to go vote?
A tiny shift the other way could leave the Democrats with the Senate. This isn't over, not by a long shot.
Look at he above post.
Not as long as the Republicans have people like Todd opening his mouth.
RCP has it at 46-46-8. The eight tossups at RCP are:
AK: Begich (D)
AR: Pryor (D)
CO: Udall (D)
GA: Open (R)
IA: Open (D)
KY: McConnell (R)
LA: Landrieu (D)
NC: Hagan (D)
538 has these as:
AK: really even
AR: slight R
CO: D
GA: R
IA: D (get this one Joni!)
KY: R
LA: slight R
NC: really even
So, unofficially, I see this as 50-48 R with two very close races in AK and NC. We have to avoid the disastrous gaffes of the R candidates of last time.
I refuse to get sucked in by these polls and pundits. The GOPe has done nothing to reassure the people that they would do anything different even IF they win in November.
With the early offerings of the likes of Jeb, Mitt, and Paul, Harry Reid May as we’ll buy himself a few new suits, as he’ll likely be there for a while.
Imagine how much MORE of a blowout it would be if a majority of normal Americans became convinced the GOP wanted to actually represent their will?
Given everything we know today, I think immigration is going to be the issue that swings the election. The Feds are dumping these kids where voters live. When little Johnny comes home from school with scabies, people are going to get PO’ed.
Illegals are shifting the balance to conservatives.... well the backlash against them....
Repubs have a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Here in NC Kay Hagan should be an easy defeat.
But the dims are running anti-Tillis ads (the e-repub candidate) 24/7.
They are ‘killing’ him and only one old anti-Hagan is run occasionally.
And anti-fracking, every 30 min on TV.
If the repubs don’t get off their a$$es and counter the dim onslaught with some new material and often Hagan will get another term.
translation: Look for the Democrats to fire up something really desperate and stupid as their Hail Mary Pass.
A proposal to forgive all student debt and the claim that Republicans plan to make chastity belts mandatory for all women 13-49 seem likely IMO.