Posted on 10/16/2013 6:00:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Amidst all the blather about Republicans going over the cliff and taking the world with them, a tantalizing bit of truth was spoken on today's Morning Joe. Doomsaying notwithstanding, the GOP is actually positioned to do OK in 2014.
Making the comment particularly surprising was its source: Barack Obama's former senior adviser himself—David Axelrod.
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David Axelrod surprisingly speaks a truth. Ping to Today show list.
Axelrod is a snake. I wouldn’t believe anything he says.
Rush yesterday played a clip of either Pelosi or Boxer describing republicans out for a walk on a beautiful day, finding rocks along the way and smashing them into their heads. It was seriously like listening to a crazy person.
Even Axlegrease knows the Economic wheels are gonna come off this coming spring if they don’t delay the individual mandate.
People that thought something was free will be experiencing Co-Pays and Huge deductable costs. They will not have an expendable income.
Even Walmart will suffer from the coming crash.
The Zombie Apocolypse is about to begin!
In 2014, Democrats will be defending a total of 21 seats, including seven states Mitt Romney carried — Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. In contrast, Republicans will be defending 14 seats. All of those seats are in Romney states, except for one — the Collins seat in Maine.
I hope so because 2016 could be a bear. There are 34 seats up for election in 2016 - 24 Republicans and 10 Democrats. The Dems are in New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Maryland, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Vermont; all solid Blue states. Republicans are up in 7 Blue states - Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Florida. The odds of picking off a Democrat are not that great while the odds of losing Republicans seats are pretty high. If the GOP establishment forces a Chris Cristie or Marco Rubio on us again as presidential nominee then it could well be a bloodbath.
Depends on the GOP’s actions on immigration. Drop and they’re golden. The base is fired up. Pass it and they die. It will thrown a wet blanket over any enthusiasm the base may have.
The Republicans will be in a position of campaigning on the truth but they will be faced with a hostile media. I don't think they are in any danger of losing control of the House but the question is whether they can nationalize the election to the extent that they can take the Senate, a more difficult task than nationalizing the election to take the House.
When Axelrod says the Republicans are structurally in good shape I think he is referring to the safe Republican seats for the House members and the number of seats which Democrats must defend in the Senate.
When he speaks of the 2016 presidential election and implies that the Republicans will not win unless they go Rino, I don't think it matters so much what the ideology of the Republican champion is, what matters is his charisma.
The Democrats are not disadvantaged by campaigning on a lie, they have been doing that for a very long time
The media acts as if the midterms are a national election. Yes, the Tea Party brand is dead in the NE and Pacific coast where everyone lives and breathes for just one more sip on the gubmint nipple. But people in Nancy Pelosi's district don't get to vote in house races in Texas or Tennessee. Out in flyover country the mood is decidedly different.
IMO, the Tea Party is poised to rock the house.
How many seats the Republicans in the house are defending ? and how many seats in the house that the Democrats have to defend ?
Both parties are defending all their seats in the House. But the great majority of all seats are safe. Relatively few in play, given districting.
So if it was Nov 6th after election day the house would closely look like what we see it today ?
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