Posted on 06/02/2014 2:13:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PORTLAND, Ore. — To Republicans, the Senate race in this solidly Democratic state presents an alluring opportunity. Oregon’s health insurance exchange has been one of the country’s most troubled. President Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 50 percent. Sen. Jeff Merkley, a liberal Democrat first elected on Obama’s coattails in 2008, is not terribly well known.
And in Monica Wehby, Republicans have a fresh-faced, female challenger who they believe matches the moment: a pediatric neurosurgeon and political outsider who rails against the Affordable Care Act but is relatively moderate on social issues.
Republicans don’t need Oregon in order to win back the Senate this year. But they do need to make inroads in blue states such as this one to compete for the White House in 2016. To expand its reach beyond older white men in the Deep South and the Midwest, the GOP must persuade voters to switch sides for candidates like Wehby.
“Unless we conservatives learn how to compete and start winning in swing and blue states, we will never govern America,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican strategist.
Mathematically, Republicans can pick up the six seats they need to gain control of the Senate by winning only in states that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried in 2012. Still, they are trying to expand the playing field to include seven states Obama won: Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon and Virginia.
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/johnny
support none of them, and tell them to all go to hell.
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Yep that choice is guaranteed not to get any possible improvement or a vote
or two along the way with the other GOP senators that just might block some of
the democrat’s agenda. I’ll leave telling them to go to hell in God’s hands.
Problem with your theory is that liberal republicans advance the democrat agenda. Like John Cornyn providing that critical cloture vote so Harry Reid could remove the debt limit.
Best to rid one party of it's liberals, and it's easier to do that to the republicans.
/johnny
Sorry to tell you, but everyone is for some form of socialized medicine.
INSURANCE OF ANY KIND IS SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
You get sick, and everyone in your insurance group pays.
What makes Obamacare unique is that insurance is mandatory.
Wehby supports insurance, does not support Obamacare.
I’ll even bet that Jim Robinson and YOU support insurance AKA SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
Socialized medicine is group insurance with a government gun to your head, taking the premiums, with no choice.
Insurance, freely entered into, and which can be dropped, is free market.
See the difference?
/johnny
The ballot is set for Nov. 4, 2014. The choice of a different candidate passed on
May 20, 2014 with their primary.
One of the following will represent Oregon in the Senate come Jan. 2015:
Merkley - Democrat
Wehby - Republican
Montchalin - Libertarian
Sannes - Independent
King - Unaffiliated
I’ll take a GOP in order to maybe get control of the Senate and be able to set some
of the agenda. It’s damned certain with the democrats in charge they will set the agenda.
I'm not sure I care if the republicans have a majority in the senate. They never have done much conservative with it when they had it.
/johnny
Your choice, my choice.
Take care.
/johnny
“It’s history that the republican leadership has supported Harry Reid’s agenda in the Senate.”
Let’s see you prove that lie.
State Reid’s agenda and then show the republican votes for it.
Cornyn then voted against it in a show vote, after he provided the cloture vote that Harry needed, and whined horribly about how the conservatives had stirred up the grass roots, and he was exposed with his cloture vote, and he was getting phone calls.
There were articles posted on FR about it.
/johnny
This is an odd hit piece from Washington Post.
First, it admits, Republicans need only win the Red States to take the Senate (we need 6) (MT, SD and WV, where we’re heavily favored; AR, LA and NC, where it is increasingly clear we have the edge; and, AK, which is up in the air, we’re going to have to see how the primary pans out).
Second, it describes a bunch of purple states as blue states, as says we have some chances among them (CO, IA, MI and NH which are toss-ups or nearly so). Then, it intimates that OR and VA (and why not MN) are also important. Let’s face it, if any of OR, MN and VA are in play come election day, we’re talking of an enormous Republican victory.
Then, after pretending OR is crucial to the Republicans taking over the Senate, they slam into the candidate, as though it’s possible a medical doctor can be a dimwit and a psychopath to boot.
Here is how Monica Wehby is potentially important: We don’t need Wehby to reach 51. We can and should reach 51 by winning in the Red States. We would need Wehby to reach 60 (to break a filibuster). With a really big victory this fall, with the possibilities of Joe Mancin switching parties and Angus King caucusing with us, we might get to 60. If we merely come close to 60 this year, maybe we’ll hit it in 2016, if we net 1 or 2 more that year.
Being able to break a filibuster is important to passing legislation that will be signed by a Republican President, and to confirming nominees of a Republican President. As it is, we don’t have a lot of good Senate prospects in 2016. So, we have to take of business this year. Conversely, the Democrats know that they have to minimize the number of pick-ups we make this year, so we can’t reach 60 in 2016. This is why their last line of defense, their Siegfried Line, is making sure they do not lose MN, OR or VA this year.
Laughable
Due to demographics we are suffering the most radical POTUS ever...the wet dream of any Berkeley radical
And this trend will continue since we are overrun with minorities who vote this way
Handouts... preference...victimhood and revenge against white oppression
Its a potent lure of the Sirens
Laughable
Due to demographics we are suffering the most radical POTUS ever...the wet dream of any Berkeley radical
And this trend will continue since we are overrun with minorities who vote this way
Handouts... preference...victimhood and revenge against white oppression
Its a potent lure of the Sirens
“Reid wanted the debt limit removed. Cornyn provided the critical cloture vote.”
The is not “The Reid Agenda”. This is one tiny possible aspect of the Reid Agenda. Big deal you spinner.
Michigan, Colorado and Iowa are already competitive races with chances of GOP victory in each no worse than 50%.
Oregon is less of chance, I don’t think this woman is a great candidate, but I wouldn’t write her off.
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