Posted on 07/28/2014 9:16:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republicans are running competitively for 10 Senate seats now held by Democrats, heightening chances for the party to capture a majority of the U.S. Senate in 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Republican Party is generally less popular than either President Barack Obama or the Democratic Party, according to the Journal. Those sentiments are evidently offset by a combination of appealing Republican candidates and deep public disapproval of the president.
Democrats now hold 55 seats in the Senate. Republicans need a net gain of six for a majority. Republican senatorial candidates are doing well in seven states that went for Mitt Romney in 2012, as well as several states that went for Obama.
"A lot of times, a party has to run an inside-straight to win the majority," Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report told the Journal. "Instead of having five cards in their hand, the Republicans have about 10."
Republican chances of winning seats held by Democrats are good in Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia. GOP candidates are also pressing effectively ahead in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina. Even Colorado, Iowa, possibly Michigan can go either way, according to the Journal.
To salvage their campaigns, Democratic candidates are running on local issues and stressing what they have done for their constituents.
Red-state Democrats were aware that re-election would not come easy. "They've prepared for difficult campaigns, and they're all experienced politicians," Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who is working on Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's campaign, told the Journal.
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so, what if they become the majority? Then what will they do? I’d say let’s look at what happened in the years after the 1994 election for an idea.
JoMa
Ok I get it... I really do... all politicians are suspect and government just s*cks.... but the negativity on anything we have on our side in the least is met with such disdain I see why the party continues to lose..... we need to do a better job at getting a better mind set...
>> Ok I get it... I really do...
You really don’t.
>> all politicians are suspect and government just s*cks...
Your lame sarcasm aside... all politicians ARE suspect, and the government DOES just suck. That’s why it needs to be pared down by 75% to 80%, pronto.
>> I see why the party continues to lose
I assume you mean the Republican party. The reason they continue to lose is that as a group they are LOSERS... rudderless self-serving out-of-touch elites who lack principles and morals. Losers lose; it’s their job.
>> we need to do a better job at getting a better mind set...
Not “we”, party suck-up. The “I” part of “we” has a perfectly adjusted conservative mindset. However, YOU need to screw YOUR head on straight and stop expecting to win with a party view that is NO DIFFERENT than the ‘rats.
I don’t think anyone really thought Romney was going to win in 2012. It is hard to get rid of an incumbent President. We have only done so twice in sixty years.
-PJ
When a sweep like this happens, we frequently see one or two Democrats switch parties to become a Republican.
We can hope.
Don’t be so sure. Reid was running the Senate even when he was Minority Leader, making a monkey out of the incompetent Majority Leader Bill Frist (Frist was fine as a backbencher, he just was not a leader).
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