I recall two weeks before the 2010 mid terms, Nancy Pelosi was guaranteeing there was “no doubt” the dems would hold onto their House majority.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
I’ve talked to enough people to know most are Clueless about the damage being done by the Democrats and their Dear Leader.
Ok wait so when the democrats ACT like they will go against their party leadership (but never do) that's a good thing. But Republicans who go against their party leadership it's a bad thing.
hmmmmm....I smell a rat.
I hate to admit this, but I’ll help the democrats all I can regarding McConnel.
It brings up the interesting argument regarding why Obama won a second term. Imagine he’s the republican candidate and he’s running against a democrat, Hillary. Would you vote for the Democrat?
Many democrats voted for Obama in 2012 in the common US tradition: They were not voting for their guy. They were voting against the party they cannot bring themselves to ever cast a vote for.
They might. But this is a tough cycle for the dems. Other than 2008, when 8 senators were swept into office in the Obama wave (including several very close elections), this class of senators generally favors republicans.
This is the class where we took back the senate after Jim Jeffords’ betrayal and also the one where we GAINED two seats in the 1996 presidential election year.
On top of that, there are 11 freshmen senators and 5 retirements that the dems have to deal with. AND it’s the 6th year of a presidency with Obama dropping like a stone.
Add to this some good republican candidates and I think it likely that the republicans will retake the senate.
There are opportunities in AK, AR, LA, OR, CO, VA, NC, IA, MI, WV, SD, MN, NH and MT. Even half of these is seven seats!
white flag on 0bamacare
amnesty for illegals by august
no charges after giving 5 top leaders back to AQ (but if done again would be treason...)
VA scandal
benghazi
NSA spying
IRS intimidation
IRS blocking TEA party groups
fast & furious
flooding the country wi more illegals
outing the top spy in Kabul (if you do it again,it’d be treason... again)
and that’s just off the top of my head in the last 18-24 months
why should the GOP “leaders” retain their post again??
Look, folks......No emotion here....whatsoever. There is only one way the Democrat Party is going to keep control of the Senate, and, that simply is, they march down to the White House and force Obama to resign or impeach him. Anything less then that brings political devastation on them, come November, 2014!!! The clock is ticking very quickly...with the election less then five months away!!!
My prediction is, assuming the Democrats continue to embrace Obama...whic the will do, they will lose 14-20 seats in the House and they will lose 8-12 Senate seats!!! With each passing day, with Obama is command, the Democrats are finding themselves in races they never, ever considered competitive!!!
If the Democrats are moderately successful at turning out their base voters - non-whites and single white women - Republicans have no chance to win a Senate majority.
The two races I have watched most closely - Virginia and Iowa - do not look promising for Republicans.
In Virginia, Gillespie will need to get about 65% of the white vote against a “moderate” Democrat.
That is probably impossible, so the only way to win there is if Democrat voters stay home like they did in 2010.
In Iowa, in 2012, Obama won the white vote 51%-47%.
For the Republican Senate candidate to win in Iowa, she will have to flip that number around, and a lot of the non-white voters will have to stay home.
Even if they are the minority party they will control the Senate and set the agenda. We have seen the GOPe in inaction so often, we know the drill.
Given the GOP “leadership” has already broadcast their intent to hand back the fillibuster to the Dems, they are correct.
We have a bunch of wimps and idiots, pretending they’d rather pander to the street fighting libs, than do battle on their own terms.
I think I can, I think I can....NOPE, you need to actually get the votes.
They’re sort of right. If McConnell and Cochran and Graham are all re-elected then if the GOP took control of the Senate how would we know?
vote democrat, vote islamist.
Who ever did the polling that tells the Democrats they have a chance to retain the senate is probably the same outfit that told Cantor he was up by 35 points.
Exactly! Brat should counsel GOP on strategy. He was saying last night on Fox that historically, centralized, top-down government has never worked and that is what we have with Democrats.