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Rothenberg: With 4 Months To Go, House Could Turn, Senate Probably Not
NPR ^ | July 7, 2010 | Ken Rudin

Posted on 07/07/2010 2:10:36 PM PDT by Drango

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It's the economy stupid.
1 posted on 07/07/2010 2:10:42 PM PDT by Drango
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To: Drango

I predict a win of 58 House seats and 8 Senate seats.


2 posted on 07/07/2010 2:14:55 PM PDT by MBB1984
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To: MBB1984

I doubt either will turn. But I do believe we’ll make a huge dent in both.


3 posted on 07/07/2010 2:15:39 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (DeMint 2012)
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To: Drango

Take Carville’s advice.
Wrap that 10% unemployment around their necks and don’t let go until November.


4 posted on 07/07/2010 2:17:23 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Drango
This is the only Senate class which has a Republican majority already, thus it is the toughest one to pick up enough seats.
5 posted on 07/07/2010 2:17:51 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Drango

The Senate already “turned” in the sense that the Rats no longer have a filibuster proof majority.


6 posted on 07/07/2010 2:19:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Drango

CA, NV, ND, PA, WI, DE, IL, WA, CO and maybe a few surprises. It’s doable.


7 posted on 07/07/2010 2:20:34 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: MBB1984

58 gain? Good to hope for but unlikely.

1994 (GOP +52)

1974 (Dem +43)

1966 (GOP +47)

1958 (Dem +49)

1948 (Dem +75)

1946 (GOP +56)


8 posted on 07/07/2010 2:21:54 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Do you think that the progressives are going to quietly let their agenda get slowed or stopped?

Starting in January 2011, you’re going to see savagery and lying and screaming and finger-pointing at 110 decibels.


9 posted on 07/07/2010 2:22:44 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Drango
When I see something from NPR, I take it as a grain of salt.

I suspect that the RATS and their running dogs in the media are trying mightily to keep some enthusiasm in their base.

10 posted on 07/07/2010 2:24:17 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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To: Drango

To maximize our victory on 2NOV, we should make Sarah Palin the head of the RNC. She draws big crowds wherever she speaks, and is a good fundraiser. Look at Sharron Angle’s web-page....she has just raised 1.5mil from the internet. Things are lookin’ good!


11 posted on 07/07/2010 2:25:47 PM PDT by abenaki (It CAN happen here.)
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To: Drango

The GOP is going to take back both Houses of Congress. The anger out there across the country is at a fever pitch. Rothenberg is whistlin’ past the graveyard.


12 posted on 07/07/2010 2:26:29 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Drango

All that really matters is taking one or the other. Since we won’t get a veto proof majority our morst pressing need is to stop the Dems from ramming this nightmare scenario through at will. Even if we got both the Senate and House any worthwhile retreat from the O agenda which the Pubs passed would get vetoed. For now we stop the bleeding, and get as much as possible. In ‘12 we get the Pres and both houses and start taking this monster apart.


13 posted on 07/07/2010 2:26:58 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Artemis Webb

I agree, the dems will lose the majority in both houses.

Scott Brown will no longer be quite as crucial.


14 posted on 07/07/2010 2:29:11 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Artemis Webb

“I doubt either will turn. But I do believe we’ll make a huge dent in both.”

That’s all that’s needed. I want to see these conservative candidates win in the House. If we win the house with a +58 seat gain, a lot of RINOs will make it into the mix thus causing the vicious cycle to begin again. We need more time.

The Senate is always going to have liberal tendencies & it is tougher to make that more conservative at this time, but making a dent in the House and scaring the hell out of the remaining moderates will neutralize Obama. If the Republicans capture the House or Senate, Obama and his lapdog media has something to blame.

I say wound them in ‘10, then go for the kill in 2012. 2012 could be a banner year for conservatism in the USA if ‘10 works out like you said. If we wind up with a +4 gain in the Senate and +25 gain in the House (and those gains should be “real” conservative gains), Obama is done for. That’s how thin the guy is. His style of politics may play well in Chicago, but it fails miserably in DC.

The last thing I want to see on FR is a suicide watch if we don’t win the House back ... I’d argue winning the House back would make things easier for Obama in ‘12.


15 posted on 07/07/2010 2:30:43 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Redleg Duke
I suspect that the RATS and their running dogs in the media are trying mightily to keep some enthusiasm in their base.

Yes they are.

That's what the "kick A**" comments and the declaration of Gay and Lesbian Month are all about.

The enthusiasm factor on the left will determine whether we take the House or not IMO. I notice the White House is having a harder and harder time getting that excitement level to rise over there on DU.

16 posted on 07/07/2010 2:31:18 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Drango

He is stubbornly holding on the old political math. He is either so set in his ways he can’t see the change comming, or he is hoping it won’t come.

A Republican won Ted Kennedy’s seat in Mass.

For the first times since...ever, conservatives are marching in the streets.

65% of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction (not having a hard time, but going in the wrong direction).

Even a blind man can read this writing on the wall. This will be an election like no other.


17 posted on 07/07/2010 2:33:06 PM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: Drango

Screw NPR. We’re going to take both houses back!


18 posted on 07/07/2010 2:34:01 PM PDT by nagdt ("None of my EX's live in Texas")
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To: Drango

We’re dealing with bolsheviks. How many of those elections will be stolen, like in Minnesota etc.? I think our side is too cocky and sure and still assuming that we are playing the old fashioned politics of fair elections. That’s not the way stalinists play them.


19 posted on 07/07/2010 2:35:32 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Drango

just imagine if we had a real Republican party!


20 posted on 07/07/2010 2:36:22 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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