A status quo result means the maintenance of a new baseline of government activity, a change not dissimilar to what took place after the New Deal and the Great Society. Politics in America will revolve around the consequences of this new order, but the order itself will not be undone. I happen to disagree. The Tea Party mentality is not gone, and it has not gone underground.
We shaved off some of Obamugabe's numbers from his "historic" 2008 win, but just couldn't go over the top.
The fight against statism has been delayed, but it isn't over...and won't be until freedom rings.
sorry man we are done! aint gonna be pretty! the takers have overtaken the makers!
Almost 7 million fewer people voted for Obama in 2012. When the sh*t really hits the fan by 2016 , that number will move further in our direction.
Yet we have a House Speaker who is ready to give up, and from reading this thread, we have posters here who are ready to give up.