Posted on 11/15/2011 4:39:41 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Was this sober political analysis, or merely an MSMer pining for the good old days of Speaker Pelosi?
On Morning Joe today, touting a Politico Pelosi puff piece about her "golden touch," Mike Allen claimed it was "very possible" that Democrats would retake the House majority in 2012.
View the video here.
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Thanx. I posted it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2451468/posts?q=1&;page=201
The first term has been the end of America as we knew it.
It’s time that Freepers, Conservatives, Republicans, Independents, etc. refrain visting the Politico web site!!! Politico, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN & ABC are just add-ons delivering the everyday message of the Obama White House and the Democrat National Committee. They are naught but state organs for the collective tyranny and state control that Obama & his illk of total socialists dream about. Americans, you are losing your freedoms with each day that passes and are like sheep being led to the slaughter of your freedom and independence!!!
So what’s she going to campaign on?
Most ethical congress evah? Flubbed that up in 2006
PayGo? Failure!
Most transparent congress ? Fail!
What’s left?
1. It's not quite possibel to score the 2012 House races yeat, because several states have yet to finish redistricting. Preliminary analysis indicates that dem gerrymandering, primarily in California and Illinois, may yeild the Dems 10+ seats. This is more than offset by the increases in electoral votes that red states received after the 2010 census. Two key states, Florida (+2 seats) and Texas (+4 seats) are still in the mix, but should yield 4-5 new GOP seats. Several blue dog Dems are in serious trouble, so it's probably more likely that the GOP majority in the House will INCREASE.
2. As many here have pointed out, it's not the fact of a GOP House that's important, it's what they actually DO with their majority. I think that the 2012 GOP Hoiuse caucus will be considrably MORE conservative than the current one, and able to exert greater pressure on the leadership. We shall see.
I was about to say that. Never underestimate the capability of the Stupid Party to jerk abject Defeat from the Jaws of Victory!
That man is smoking some good s***.
Oh, I wouldn’t bet against your goldfish—given what the Ivy League is graduating these days.
2010 was a great win, but we didn’t win the Senate. The dems are using the gridlock to pound pubbies with. They also have the MSM to give them a huge lift.
If we had taken the Senate in 2010, we could lob the lack of cooperation on Obama only because he would have had to veto everything.
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LOL, sure and the LSM would have dutifully reported that...right? What the hell are you smokin’?
Big mistake comparing a national election for president with what are essentially local elections for the House and senate.
Like they say, all politics are local.
That would have appealed to his base, but it also would have been clear that Obama is the one stalemating everything.
Who would have reported he was “stalemating” everything? Certainly not the lib media. They would have given him all the ink and the nets would give him all the face time he wanted so he could portray the Republicans of working against the great majority of Americans and favoring only their “rich friends”
I suppose that's possible. I realize it's only one state, but how does the theory that our momentum has "dried up" square with the 2011 smashing of Democrats in Virginia?
“Like they say, all politics are local.”
Of late, that has been subverted. All politics are now national. Local politicians may behave as if there are local issues to consider but Progressives have made local political offices into tentacles of an over-reaching federal government.
IMHO
I don’t think so. The Rep did well in the midterms allowing them to redistrict a ton of seats for a more favorable demographic and they did this so they could maintain and increase their numbers.
Although national issues are important I believe the local elections will hinge on the old adage that while people think elected officials pretty much suck, they still think THEIR elected official is ok.
Yea. I wouldn’t role anything out. If we lose the House, things are going to get worse then they where during Pelosi’s first rein of power.
Then Republicans can actually think about what they would do BEFORE they get power back.
The important thing is NOT HAVING a democrat House.
It took a landslide year for them to win it in 2006. In my opinion it would take that again for them to win it back.
I don’t think the most the of GOP-leaning seats that they won in 2006 and 2008 (or the GOP-leaning seats they long held that we won last year) are likely to shift back to them. Without them they never would have had the majority.
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