LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

Please Mods can we have one central Live thread ...its tough jumping from thread to thread to get results.

[freedomdefender]

Bush was trying to tell you and Santorum and Weldon to shut the hell up and try to get the existing 12 million on our side before closing the door.

The Bush-Kennedy- McCain immigration bill didn't "close the door." As Heritage documentd, it would allow 50 million more immigrants in the next 20 years. That's about 44 million more Democrats. That's why it's the Bush- KENNEDY plan.

[Arizona Carolyn]

No you can't and when Harry Reid pulled his dirty, close the doors, attack on Frist last year, Frist still turned the other cheek and let him get away with it... time after time Frist let Reid take the lead in the Senate even though he, not Reid was the leader... Hastert, same thing would take a tough stand and then back down at the last minute and try to play nice... and then get stabbed in the back...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I agree one hundred percent with you on how Bush has presented this!

I love Bush...but the White House has blown it with getting the point across.

The good news now is that Pelosi better have some Plan for Iraq...ha.

[InterceptPoint]

Slight trend in favor of Allen. Percentage to win down to 45% from 45.8%. Votes to go: 18,864. Allen needs 8500 of them. The Dem needs 10,367 to defeat Allen.

[fatima]

Well the buck stops here for Casey.

[Lexinom]

I shudder to ponder the day in America when expediency has entirely eclipsed principle.

[flaglady47]

Just one crazed prediction. Pelosi will not end up Speaker, rather Stenny Hoyer of MD. will get the nod

Wrong. No one will go up against Pelosi. First, she is a woman and they won't attack the first female speaker of the house; second, she is one tough cookie under those permanently open eyes, and will fight anyone who goes up against here; third, she was instrumental in tonite's victory for many of the more conservative Dems that won; therefore they owe her for the monies she had spent helping them win, and the backing they were given by her. They won't bite the hand that feds the face. Mark my words, she will be Speaker.

[Howlin]

That's what I thought as soon as I heard STL and KC weren't reporting yet.

Wasn't there a big deal with Ashcroft ran?

[TomGuy]

FoxNews:

Rich Lowrey says the reason Hayworth loses in AZ is: He talks more than he listens.

[That has been the inherent problem with the GOP: They have not listened to the base.]

[I'm ALL Right!]

According to him, everyone who is upset and/or suspicious about the outcome of this election is acting like a DUh-er.

[STARWISE]

Tell that to the millions of Iraqis in 14 out 18 provinces, who now have fresh, clean water, medical clinics, immunization for their children, schools, school supplies, improving electricity, operational oil wells, businesses, cell phones, satellite TV's, a free press of 150 newspapers, playgrounds for their children .... and who are SO grateful to Pres. George W. Bush for their freedom, for the end to human shredding machines, for the end of Uday and Qusay's rape chambers and amputation and electric shock games ...for being constantly spied on and deprived of any human dignity or privacy ...

and which people risked their very lives to vote in 3 elections, to go on to outfit their official government, have 25% of their legislature female (the only such in the Muslim Middle East), get a constitution going ...

and who've seen the evil maniac who brutally tortured, murdered and oppressed them and his neighbors for decades, and who was working on and had weapons of mass destruction and biological toxin programs ..

(which diabolical monster was captured by the diligence and bravery of the best military force in the world: OUR US Forces...)

and who just saw their new official justice system go through a year-long democratic trial and sentence that monster to death by hanging!

Tell that to the grateful children and families who have come to love and honor our incredibly brave, kind and decent troops for all the freedom, improvements and blessings in their lives .. given them from the hearts and sacrifice of our brave troops!

I'd love to see you walk up to one of these soldiers and have the nerve to say that.

I'll not post the remainder of what I'm thinking so as not to be removed ... the ignorance and shallowness of your comments have made me sick enough. And you're a FReeper?

[rintense]

They're doing it in China. And Iran.

[Fledermaus]

Right. A Dem majority of 1-4 seats in the House is not a bloodbath. If the Senate holds, and it should, they can stop anything coming from the House and Bush might actually grow a spine and veto if he has to. No way to overturn those at this stage unless the GOP get even wimpier.

The Dems don't have the guts to try and unfund the war ala Vietnam. They'll have way too many people angry at them and we can create a new voter bloc buzzword: pissed off military moms!

Frankly, the GOP did a lot of this to themselves. The ground game obviously wasn't as good as they thought even though turnout in areas was pretty high. Also, a lot of GOP candidates ran lousy campaigns like Allen. Corker was awful but should pull it out. Pennsylvania is a Dem state and they did vote against Bush but Santorum also was warned by the "conservatives" that he would pay for backing Specter and that might have played a role.

Face it...voters wanted "change" regardless of why or even if they truly understand the issues. The economy is good but they don't care. They care more about TV shows.

I doubt Iraq really dragged the ticket down and without really good exit polls we'll never know if the GOP base stayed home in some states but overall voting numbers will tell us something.

But considering history it's not as bad as the average losses for the party in power in a 6th year for a president except Clinton had his 6th year losses in his fourth year.

[ground_fog]

2 years of radicalism in the house hopefully shot down by a GOP Senate--come on Allen!

[longtermmemmory]

Fox just went total unwatchable with shep smit and a bunch of monday morning quarterbacks with attacking the military on the issue of we are losing the war in iraq.

They are all spin.

Shep needs a closet FAST.

[TheLion]

Very sad, isn't it? The president, having lost all these seats will now have more leverage to push through amnesty for 40 or 50 million illegals. Kind of ironic.

[kenth]

Heh, well, us having both houses.

[La Enchiladita]

Read the thread, sweetie. Constant updates.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think we will see it in our lifetime. After 2 or 4 years of Democrat shit, the American people will be sick and tired enough to vote Republican again.

[oceanview]

no way, no potential 2008 candidate wants to be associated that closely with the administration going into 2008.