My Rep will not have meetings, will not take calls and will not show up anywhere.
What say we start a movement to have all Americans of good conscience go down to the various state buildings and start requesting info about entering their names for state and federal positions for the races in 2010?? It would bring some recognition of the problem, we could count on the movement getting some media coverage and MAYBE the Reps and Senators would get the message that pitchforks aren’t too far behind.
Imagine if 30 million people (just RUSH listeners!) swamped all the state offices demanding papers to run for the offices that the Congress people seem to think are theirs for life??
And I thought 30 or 40 seats was gettin into pie in the sky type altitudes...but i figure he must know the number crunching results a lot more directly than I do...
It is stunning. I wonder if the Dems peruse the nuclear option if it may not come true. Possibly more.
33 or so seats in the US Senate will be on the ballot.
All 435? seat in the US House will be on the ballot.
Punditry? Amazing isn’t it. I would say the Congress will go Pubbie as in past history of mid-term election ... however this time is a real unknown.
Dems might push things to hard. Pubbies show a distinct lack of leadership and aggressiveness. 15 months and counting!
The most seats lost in the last 100 years was by the Republican in 1932 at 101. And, that was remarkable considering just two years before (a year after the stock market crash), the Republicans lost 51 seats. In the 1932 election, the Republicans had squandered a 100+ seat majority it enjoyed just four short years before, and had a deficit of 113.
It was because of those tremendous swings - which were the completely reflective of the reactionary nature that the Founders intended the House to have - that gerrymandering became as prevalent as it did. Politicians didn't want to have such volatility in the careers.
As it stands today, because of the industrial nature of professional politics, it makes it virtually impossible to have such explosives changes - like another 100 swing in the House. It's really too bad.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Any improvement in the economy is going to be credited to the Democrats, rightly or wrongly, and that will help them. Assuming, of course, the economy improves.
People are getting afraid of dems... that works in our favor.
Not unless Michael Steele saddles up this horse...
“The people want justice. They want the grift and fraud excised. They want those who blew these huge bubbles for their own personal aggrandizement and profit while ripping off the common man to get their just desserts - an indictment and a prison sentence, not another billion-dollar bonus.”
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/
The Dems hold a 40 seat edge over Republicans in the House.
Earlier today I said that I did not think it possible to get that many back in one election.
Another FReeper reminded me that the R got over 50 seats in 94.
Like you said, this is Morris. We can hope but let’s not get lazy over it.
I would love to see this happen,...but will the determination we see now with angry voters last until the election in 2010?
btw..I would settle for 3 Dem Senators, Reid being one of them....Nevada needs to daschle him!
Dick Morris is usually wrong, but always interesting and entertaining.
Then bookmark this and see how Morris' predictions turn out.
God, please let this stopped clock be right this time.
Morris’s prediction of a 100 House seat gain is based on the assumption that America enters into a double dip recession in 2010.
But the irony of all this is that the Republicans always seem to be most effective and at their best when they are in the minority. That’s when they seem to “get it together” and, more or less, unite as conservatives. But then once they become the majority, they forget about why they became a majority and become big spending liberals. I don’t get it.
Morris will have a totally different prediction in his next appearance on Fox. I hope he’s right, but he is always touted as THE go-to expert and he ends up wrong everytime. Remember, he predicted Hillary and Condi Rice would be the 2008 candidates. He’s a toad and I don’t trust him one minute.
I played it back to be sure I didn’t hear incorrectly. By God, he did say 100 seats could be lost.