Posted on 10/30/2012 5:35:48 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Edited on 10/30/2012 5:45:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Your (fake) concern is duly noted.
What difference does it make if a Lugar has an R behind his name if he acts like a D?
What the hell his he talkin about? I have noticed, though, that the MSM has been trying to depress the senate vote in the last couple of days.
The analysis doesn’t seem wrong to me. We have very conservative congressmen who have served in safe House districts, who get nominated to run for the Senate, and their views turn out to be too far to the right of public opinion statewide to allow them to get elected.
Now that Obama is seen as lost, the corrupt MSM is trying to hold the Senate for themselves... er, for the Democrats.
First, we must have a majority and that may mean using some we wish we didn't have to use but this is the reality of the situation.
With Dims in control, we've lost everything.
Thanks “Jonathan” for providing proof-positive that my suspicions for the past week have been correct.
The leftists and the libs know that the WH and the congress are gone.
They desperately fear losing a majority in the senate, too.
Jonathan Frankenstein or whatever his name is has just proved that they are trying to control losing the senate as well.
This is a lot like election night ‘94, with Dan Rather babbling on at about midnight EST about some Dem having the chance of holding a Senate seat in WA, while both houses were flipping to the Republicans.
Guess the author hasn’t bothered to look at the absentee/early voting returns. Ds are being blasted. In states they led by 20, they lead by 5-7. In states they led by a little, they are trailing huge. I think Mandel will pull out a win, Brown, Heller, Cruz, Mourdock and Flake will hold, we’ll take NE and MT and WI and VA (net +5) and FL and PA are still close. And I’m forgetting someone-—who?
I don’t believe a word this guy says, he can’t even get the year correct.
We have to get rid of Harry Reid.
Then we have to elect someone besides Mitch McConnell to lead the Senate.
We need someone who still has a pair.
Youre right, I don’t know who that would be.
If the Democrat lose their majoprity we are still no better off if we do not have a leader with a pair.
I hope so.
The last three times this Senate "class" has been up, the party that held a Senate majority has lost it.
R to D in the Democrat monster year of 2006.
R to Even in the 2000, when Gore won a slight plurality.
D to R in the Republican monster year of 1994.
There were probably others, but the only close race I remember in any of these elections where the party that lost the Senate won was Tennessee in 2006 (Corker over Ford). The Senate races look close today, and if BO loses small, I can see the Democrats holding the Senate, if they win a bunch of races by a little. So we need to keep working. Hard. And make sure that they lose all of the close races.
Superficial. RINOs lose too, and Dems who are too leftist for their states get elected.
No, the national media is the biggest factor. Senate candidates have to be excellent TV performers, and conservative ones must be able to withstand inventive negative “earned media” from the networks.
The networks can’t successfully attack conservative congressmen without very good cause.
The analysis doesn’t seem wrong to me. We have very conservative congressmen who have served in safe House districts, who get nominated to run for the Senate, and their views turn out to be too far to the right of public opinion statewide to allow them to get elected.
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In some cases, you may be correct. However, I’m more concerned that we end up nominating Senate candidates who become difficult to elect not because they are too conservative, but because they don’t know how to state their case or run their campaigns.
We had several Senate opportunities this cycle that should have been easy wins that we have virtually handed to the Dems because of bungling PR nightmares or just plain inability to be articulate. This has not only hurt their own campaigns, but has hurt the national campaign as well.
We may well yet pull the Senate out, but it should have been much, MUCH easier than this. I have stressed several times in this forum the need for an effective national election committee to vet the local candidates and prep them for national scrutiny. In a very real sense, we are only as strong as our weakest link, because the media love guilt by association.
I was no fan of Lugie here in Indiana, but he probably voted R 80% of the time.
Donnelly if elected will vote R 20% of the time, just enough so he can campaign as “bipartisan Joe”. And on any of the important votes, he’ll be a solid D.
Hey, LS.
Long time, no FReep.
How’ve you been?
Any new books in the stores or in the pipeline?
I have an agent for my novel and it’s circulating well. No commitments yet, but we’re getting close, and I’m optimistic.
Good analysis. I’m not sure who you’re forgetting, but here in PA Casey is being tied to the HUD waste in Philly, so that isn’t going to help the DNC in this state, which went pretty solidly for Obammie the Commie in 08. Combine that with the attack on coal, which impacts the western part of the state, and we may see a more significant shift here. But I’ve given up trying to predict the intelligence of the voters en masse.
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You left out Akin in MO?
That’s the one. I think he’ll win.
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