Posted on 01/07/2011 5:19:43 PM PST by mandaladon
We can’t be precise about how all of this will shake out. But it is reasonably clear that, to take back the House in 2012, Democrats would have to approximate the feat they pulled off in the banner year of 2006 while facing a changed and more hostile political map. Redistricting aside, a number of places where veteran Blue Dog Democrats lost in 2010—including three in Tennessee, two in Mississippi, and one each in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama—are heavily Republican districts that are very unlikely to flip back in the foreseeable future.
The Senate picture for Democrats in 2012 is not much better, for the simple reason that 23 of the 33 seats that will be contested then are currently held by Democrats, reflecting the 2006 landslide. To put it another way, Republicans could lose Senate races by a 19-14 margin and still recapture the chamber (or by a 20-13 margin if they win the White House). Meanwhile several Republican senators, including Orrin Hatch of Utah, Dick Lugar of Indiana, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, and Olympia Snowe of Maine, will go into the 2012 re-election cycle more worried about right-wing primary challenges than about general election contests…
So what’s my point, other than to pour cold water on Democratic hopes for a quick revival after a really bad midterm election? It’s that progressives need to begin adjusting their expectations. Up until now, many Democrats have judged Barack Obama according to the hopes he inspired in 2008—that he might not only undo the damage inflicted on the country by George W. Bush, but end more than three decades of conservative ascendancy and usher in a period of progressive reform.
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That’s going to be left up to We the People, Nasty. Sorry. You lose. B**********!
Is she resigning?
‘sok, We The People don’t plan on letting you keep “your” new smaller office much longer.
Nancy wants to climb back into the swamp.
She’s correct, as old as she is she’s a heart beat from a stroke and the grave yard.
sometimes...
even idiots are privvy to things other don’t know..
?????
AMEN !
A 6x6 office with 24 hour security and a secretary named Bertha would be good.....
Hey Nance, feel free to resign at your earliest convenience.
She is in LaLa Land and will never never get it...this is America and we are Americans...the hate America crowd are very small in numbers...Americans will not make the mistake of letting lunatic commies have the majority ever again...
When you keep doing the SAME thing over and over and over again for decade after decade after decade while expecting different results.....
I was thinking something even smaller with a cover.
Pelosi Galore should be moved to the basement
Sorry nutty Bagdad Nancy, your face won’t last that long.
I see the hair’s leaving out on top also.
I do feel your pain however.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (demonic laughter)
Inquiring minds want to know...
Nanner's destiny.
But only if the door is welded shut.
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