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Posted on 11/07/2006 7:44:37 PM PST by Spacewalker
Right now, this isn't a Dem landslide but a conventional Year Six election with an underperforming opposition party. 1938 Senate races: GOP picked up six seats. 1958 Senate election: Dems picked up 13 seats. 1986 Senate election: Dems picked up nine (net). In other words, by historical standards this is an excellent result for the President's party six years in. Needless to say, that's not a perspective the Dems, the media, the Europeans or the insurgents will have any time for....
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: elections; results
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Words of wisdom...
To: Spacewalker
Needless to say, that's not a perspective the Dems, the media, the Europeans or the insurgents will have any time for....The Dims will deny it and call names, but this is the truth: The terrorists are delighted with tonight's results.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:47:03 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Republican, atheist, pro-lifer, stranded in Blue Boston)
To: Spacewalker
The GOP lost a somewhat safe seat in Indiana because a Libertarian loon siphoned off enough votes to put the Dem over the top.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:48:18 PM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: Spacewalker
The Rats are never more than a tax increase away from being voted back out. They will make convenient whipping boys for the 2008 elections.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:49:54 PM PST
by
speedy
To: Spacewalker
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:50:17 PM PST
by
michaelt
To: Spacewalker
Except, what the hell was going on in the world in 1938, 1958, and 1986. NOTHING! Here we are in the beginning of a long, brutal, and bitter war and the nation throws it towards the Dems. And who is to blame? Screw the blame. Let America go through two years of Charlie Rangell, Alcee Hastings, John Conyers, and Stretch Pelosi. And you Freepers who sat out or voted for your vaunted pot-smoking Libertarians - to quote Al Pacion - EF YOU TOO!!!!
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:50:19 PM PST
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: Darkwolf377
Expect the Terrorists to send a message real soon.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:50:25 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: 7thson
1938: Hitler in Germany...
1958: Cold war...
To: quidnunc
The Libertarians would have voted for the Dem to punish "W".
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:51:23 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: 7thson
Hmmm...i'm sure something was brewing in 1938...can't quite put my finger on it...
To: Spacewalker
1986 Soviet Threat very high - Iran/Contra -
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:52:30 PM PST
by
karnage
To: 7thson
Anyone who blames this on Freepers is a moron. They saw the opportunity and with their willing accomplices in the press, they seized the it. I think I will take the rest of the week off from politics. I need to get a hobby.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:52:35 PM PST
by
Hildy
To: muawiyah
Expect the Terrorists to send a message real soon. Of course, it'll be all Bush's fault ...
To: muawiyah
The Libertarians would have voted for the Dem to punish "W".
Don't think so.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:52:51 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: quidnunc
The GOP lost a somewhat safe seat in Indiana because a Libertarian loon siphoned off enough votes to put the Dem over the top.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:52:57 PM PST
by
cricket
(Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .SAVE THE TERRORISTS! VOTE DEMOCRAT. . .)
To: 7thson
I like your style.
There was a problem or two brewing in 1938. Sorry.
After NYC gets nuked or somesuch, I'll have the "Don't blame me, I voted Republican" bumper sticker on. A lot of good it'll do then.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:53:19 PM PST
by
JusPasenThru
(Just another angry military veteran.)
To: Spacewalker
If the House goes Dummiecrat, as it now appears it may, then: illegal aliens will get amnesty, the tax cuts will expire, subpoenas and possible impeachment of the president will begin, for starters, among a lot of other fugly results.
It ain't gonna be pretty ...
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:54:22 PM PST
by
Babu
To: quidnunc
The GOP lost a somewhat safe seat in Indiana because a Libertarian loon siphoned off enough votes to put the Dem over the top.Hope these folks enjoy their new face. . .sans nose, of course. . .
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:54:44 PM PST
by
cricket
(Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .SAVE THE TERRORISTS! VOTE DEMOCRAT. . .)
To: speedy
This all makes it easier to win in 08. However, on a side note, this shouldnt of happened. Republicans and Conservatives alike dropped the ball. They acted like Dems and kept the Republicans away.
Im stumped on Santorum though. This gives me pause on our society as a whole that this good man did not win.
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:55:24 PM PST
by
newconhere
(bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
To: Spacewalker
1986 - Ronald Reagan was very upbeat about the results. He knew it was the ebb and flow of politics. But, he was confident that, on balance, his party would rebound even higher.
Lando 
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posted on
11/07/2006 7:55:36 PM PST
by
Lando Lincoln
(For what cause would a liberal go to war? ...besides revolutions...)
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