Posted on 09/14/2014 8:22:43 AM PDT by mandaladon
As the 2014 midterm election campaign heats up, all indications are that Democrats are headed for a trouncing at the hands of Republicans.
Most political prognosticators now give the GOP a better-than-even chance of picking up the six seats it needs to win control of the Senate, and the party is expected to expand its majority in the House.
The Republican gains may not match those of the Tea Party wave of 2010 that cost Democrats the House and their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, but it likely will be enough to make President Obama's final two years in office even more of a headache than the last four have been.
There are many factors fueling the GOP's advantage, but the most striking difference between 2014 and 2010 is that the economy is not one of them. Both the unemployment rate and layoffs are way down, but Democrats by and large are not getting the credit for it.
Democrats always knew 2014 was going to be a tough Senate election for a simple reason: They have to defend a bunch of seats held in deeply red states that Obama lost in the last two presidential elections.
The three seats the party has all but conceded to Republicans are in South Dakota, West Virginia, and Montana, where the departures of long-serving Sens. Tim Johnson (S.D.), Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.) and Max Baucus (who became ambassador to China) pretty much doomed Democrats' chances of winning. Democrats initially had hopes they could hold onto Montana, but their nominee, John Walsh, withdrew from the race last month amid a plagiarism scandal.
With those three gone, Democrats have incumbents up for re-election in another four states that Mitt Romney won in 2012: Alaska (Mark Begich), Arkansas (Mark Pryor), Louisiana (Mary Landrieu), and North Carolina (Kay Hagan).
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It makes you wonder how many of these anti-GOPers are libertarians. Back in the Reagan years the libertarians were railing against the Repubs, trying to get you to vote third party. They are out in force now, running incognito on FR, but we know their game.
The Dems are so bad that even the worst Repub is better than any of them. The races are especially close now, a vote for a third party candidate is a vote for the Dems.
The GOP has run run a responsible, restrained and business-like campaign with candidates that don’t turn voters off.
First rule of politics: do no harm. And it will benefit immensely in November from Obama’s enormous unpopularity, Obamacare screwups and Democratic failures.
Obama is going to become a lame duck just like Bush was in his final two years in office. After poisoning national politics for a decade by running against Bush, the Democrats’ ignominy appears to be complete.
Yeah good news threads are pretty funny that way. For some folks all news is bad news.
You’re so right. I have wondered how many of the conservative “purists” here are FR are actually trolls trying to pick off a few of us. Their stances are so illogical, it makes me question their sincerity.
Darn it! Progressives will just have to get things done using their other party. :)
I’d make a predication...
The Senate will be split 50/50 with Joe Biden as the tie ending vote...
The dems will stop at absolutely nothing to keep control of the Senate...
At least two GOP seats won will be outright stolen...
The fraud this election will be unprecedented, but with Holder at the helm of DOJ, the GOPe will just cave and play nice...
I remain supremely confident in the ability of the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I’m a conservative.
Why don’t you give me one, single, positive reason that I should vote for the GOP.
And no-
“The Dems are so bad that even the worst Repub is better than any of them”
is not a positive reason.
What has the GOP done to earn my vote as a conservative?
Why does the GOP deserve my vote?
Sell me.
Go.
Exactly. So what if the GOP takes the Senate with a razor thin margin? So what if the GOP retains the House, with a razor thin margin?
Liberals dominate every Federal agency, the entire education system, the entire media, and every significant institution in America.
Plus, the nation is trillions of dollars in debt, a third of the nation's people aren't working, etc etc.
Picking up a handful of Senate seats in a mid term election doesn't really matter at this point.
This is the result of what I have heard a person describe recently, and I think it was Mark Levin, that the left has been playing the long game for a long time, and the GOP is playing must win the next election, therefore they are losing before they even start.
But, quite frankly, I don’t even believe the GOP is playing we must win the next election. I don’t believe they give a damn about anything other than protecting their turf, and not from the left, but from conservatives.
I believe the GOP is also the left, not even a slightly slow left, but the left. They are simply lying to a different group of people than the democrats are lying to.
Forget parties. Think candidates.
Scott Walker
David A. Clarke Jr.
Positive change is out there, a vote or two away. Yours maybe the turning point.
Thank you for making my point.
I said nothing about ‘ideal’ candidates. I’m simply looking for candidates that are not leftist lite. Otherwise, ITS POINTLESS.
Do I anticipate a revolution? No - I expect we will all go to the camps quietly. My only hope (read my post) is that with enough provocation, early enough, that might not happen.
Candidates lie.
Scott Walker is an Amnesty supporter.
You are probably not going to like my response to what you said. Certainly so if you are a libertarian pulling for the defeat of both parties so you can get your party in power.
The GOP cares only about winning elections for their party, thats what they are hired for. By reading the pulse of the electorate, if they discern the public is no longer conservative, meaning they will lose elections if they support conservatives, then they will support RINO’s.
Simple as that, the problem is not the GOP, the problem is the masses out there. Sadly, their tea leaves they read is true. Most are adrift, having lost the Christian conservative anchor for their soul they once had. Deceived by the media, and willingly so. If you have bought their amoral lies, as libertarians have, then you too are part of the problem.
The upshot of which is, unless the masses reverse this trend by turning to God in repentance, a change in their world view, then we have no choice but to vote lesser of two evils - libertarians makes it three evils. We’re in the end game, I don’t like these compromising RINO’s any more than you do, but the commie alternative is even worse. Sad state of affairs indeed.
McCain gags me, but I voted for him over against Obama. Considering this overt commie we have got in office, single handedly destroying this country, I believe I did right (even McCain - anything - would have been better). And I’ll do similar again if I have to.
The problem is the duped masses out there, its the people, they are the ones who vote in these commies. Blame the electorate, not the GOP.
I definitely agree with your assessment of the cause of this, most especially how it relates to people having left God.
I am not a libertarian, and I don’t have a party or any interest in power.
I do have an interest in my own power over myself, but that’s it.
I do not believe that men can be trusted with power over other men.
I believe they have thoroughly proven that they cannot be trusted with power at all, no matter how small that power is.
My personal belief is that every society is doomed to eventual failure, because mankind is corrupt.
I’m not sure how to fix that, maybe there is no fixing it, but if there is any answer at all, it lies in Jesus Christ and nowhere else.
And I agree with your assessment 100%. I apologize for alluding to you as a libertarian. We are overrun with them on on FR, it seems.
Ah no worries at all.
I just have become disillusioned with political parties. I have turned away from them entirely.
I can’t trust single persons entrusted with power of others, and I certainly cannot trust groups of person whose interest is gaining power over others.
I have watched various candidates over recent years claim to be Tea Party, then as soon as they gain the trust of voters and get elected, they betray those voters.
It seems like this world is filled with nothing but opportunists and their prey.
Wolves and sheep.
I truly believe that as long as our society turn its back on Jesus, we are lost.
Man’s best governor is himself through the virtue of Jesus Christ, and without that virtue, he is a dangerous beast indeed.
Lurking DU has been a delight lately. Activity is much lower than in the past so many have forsaken that place. What’s left is the hard core marxists and feminists(same thing really).
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