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Democrats’ chances of retaking the House improve
Washington Post ^ | February 6, 2012 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 02/06/2012 1:37:55 PM PST by SMGFan

Democrats have been saying for a long time that the House could be in play in 2012, and now some Republicans are starting to join them.

“For Democrats to take 25 seats, they will need a wave,” former congressman Tom Davis wrote in an op-ed in The Hill recently. “Continued polarization and obstruction could create such a wave.”

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele agreed that keeping the majority isn’t a done deal: “It could be very, very hard.”

And last week, a member of the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board opined that the GOP majority could be in jeopardy if Republicans don’t make it a priority.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012election; congress; elections; nodemocrats2012
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To: SMGFan

If the GOP is stupid enough to nominate Obomney — and it appears it is — then not only will the GOP be finished, but so will the United States.

Someone once said that all great empires or nations eventually commit suicide.


61 posted on 02/06/2012 4:35:30 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Forty-Niner
Staying home and not voting, thereby allowing the Democrat to win, only reinforces the idea that Republicans need to be more like Democrats to win......(they don’t get that Republicans need to be Big C “Conservative” to win)

It never made sense to me. In the bizarro conservative political world, a loss is just as good as a win if you lose for the right reason.

In reality, you're just a loser in a very, very high stakes game.

62 posted on 02/06/2012 4:59:41 PM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: ought-six
If the GOP is stupid enough to nominate Obomney — and it appears it is — then not only will the GOP be finished, but so will the United States.

The "GOP" doesn't have much choice in the matter. The voters pick the nominee from the few that have the resources, organization, and background to run effective campaigns. If Romney gets it, it will be our fault, not the GOP's.

If you don't have the votes to get your choice nominated, too bad; but put the blame where it belongs.

63 posted on 02/06/2012 5:14:41 PM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: DustyMoment

Once upon a time, we had a strong speaker. His name was Newt, and look what happened to him.


64 posted on 02/06/2012 5:15:41 PM PST by erkelly (Never underestimate the stupidity of the stupid party!)
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To: ilgipper

Tom Davis and Michael Steel enough said.


65 posted on 02/06/2012 5:47:58 PM PST by mimaw
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To: SMGFan

How you going to vote this fall: socalist or Democrat?


66 posted on 02/06/2012 5:50:31 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: erkelly
His name was Newt, and look what happened to him.

Good point. Republicans are too accustomed to eating their own and letting the left manipulate them into eating their own. This is only one of the reasons that, in all good conscience, I can no longer consider myself a Republican and have jumped onto the Tea Party bandwagon.

I am tired of a political party that is so dumb, inept and spineless that they are embarrassing to REAL dumb, inept and spineless people!!!

67 posted on 02/06/2012 7:43:05 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: DustyMoment

I don’t know if I’ll be living in this country in eight years, but if I am, I will never vote Republican again. If conservatives don’t have the survival sense to ditch these circular backstabbers by that point, I’ll bail water in a 3rd party lifeboat before I join the captains of G.O.P. Titanic on another iceberg hunt.


68 posted on 02/06/2012 7:56:53 PM PST by AnTiw1 (I lived through a mormon hell, I will not live in a country with a mormon president.)
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To: MHGinTN

Re your post 11, is it not conceivable that many conservatives are going to do what I plan, i.e., if Romney is the GOP nominee, I’m going to pass over the presidential nominees and vote Republican for all the other races.

Despite my hatred for Obama, I cannot find it in me to vote for Romney, whom I equally detest.

If the American people have not yet figured out what has been done to them over the last three years and vote for Obama, then they deserve what follows in 2013-2016.


69 posted on 02/06/2012 8:20:53 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: MHGinTN

Oh, by the way, the verb is “loses” not “looses.” The latter relates to the easing of something, as in “I have a loose button on my shirt.”

You did get “loser” right.


70 posted on 02/06/2012 8:23:49 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum

If Rominy is the nominee, I’m writing in Jim Robinson and Sarah Palin. ... And I’ll be sure to edit before posting this time. BTW, how sad must be you’re live if’n youse gotta spend so much tyme on a arthritic finger typo?


71 posted on 02/06/2012 9:18:51 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: SMGFan

The election will be decided on pocketbook politics - REMEMBER, “Its the eonomy STUPID?”

As of May 2012 [as reported by ABC], gas prices are LIKELY to go north of $4.50 in MANY areas ...

AND, ABC reports, for EVERY 10-cent increase in a gallon of gas, the public spends [correspondingly] $9 Billion LESS in the economy ...

EVERYTHING we consume [just about] is tagged to the price of gas - milk, eggs, bread. And even pizza delivery ...

Not to mention a slow down in hiring [IF the job market is INDEED recovwering] ...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/gas-could-break-four-dollars-15525806


72 posted on 02/06/2012 9:40:38 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Lmo56
As of May 2012 [as reported by ABC], gas prices are LIKELY to go north of $4.50 in MANY areas ...

> $4 = Republican President
> $3 < $4 = Toss up
< $3 = Second term

73 posted on 02/06/2012 9:49:20 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: SMGFan
There is no substance to this assertion. EVERY indicator shows just the opposite. It is a psy-ops piece. We will see articles like this right up until November. They said similar things during 2010.
74 posted on 02/07/2012 4:42:08 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: SMGFan

There is no substance to this assertion. EVERY indictor shows just the opposite. It is a pych-ops piece. We will see articles like this right up until November. They said similar things during 2010.


75 posted on 02/07/2012 4:43:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Leep

Maybe the article is true. Their chance of retaking the house could have improved from about 2% to 2.2%


76 posted on 02/07/2012 7:16:38 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: MHGinTN

Regarding your last sentence, which I presume is written in jest. I think it is, but if not, then a spelling correction here and there is not going to improve your written communication skills.

As to the “loose and lose” bit, it has nothing to do with the nature of my life and everything to do with being bothered by ignorance of the English language.


77 posted on 02/07/2012 11:49:19 AM PST by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum

If I could, I would lend to you my arthritic fingers, the same fingers with which I have written seven novels and two non-fiction works, one of which you can access on the Internet regarding stem cells, cloning, and abortion. Perhaps you feel you could improve my output using your fingers, fingers which obviously never miss a key when you’re superior mind is racing?


78 posted on 02/07/2012 3:43:32 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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PS - I slipped that missuse of the contraction in so that you would have something over which to grit your teeth. Have Nice Day


79 posted on 02/07/2012 3:44:58 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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