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To: KeyLargo
Bill and Hillary campaigned like crazy in this mid-term. Candidates lost like crazy they campaigned for. They should be eating humble pie, not talking about the victors like that. It's bad form.

Speaking of bad form, isn't Hillary going to run in 2016. They better be on their best form from now on. Because her form doesn't look too good":

"Corporations, businesses don't create jobs"

6 posted on 11/08/2014 6:21:07 AM PST by sr4402
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To: sr4402
Bill and Hillary campaigned like crazy in this mid-term. Candidates lost like crazy they campaigned for.

'Folks' forget that Billie Boy was a down-ballot disaster just as Obama is. 'Rats were critical of him then for his all-about-me fundraising and campaigning. Same as Obama.

8 posted on 11/08/2014 6:25:13 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: sr4402

A.B. Stoddard: A bad night for Clinton?

By A.B. Stoddard - 11/05/14 01:37 PM EST

While reports from the White House on election night described a fuming President Obama still in denial about his role in Democratic losses all over the country, you might have heard champagne corks popping in Hillaryland. Surely Bill and Hillary Clinton were breathing a sigh of relief.

The Tea Party Express issued a statement Wednesday titled “Rough Night for Hillary 2016,” listing the races the former secretary of State campaigned in only to see the candidates she endorsed go down in defeat. America Rising PAC released a similar list of places where she failed, the wide margins the candidates lost by and how many thousands of dollars the candidates spent to fly her there. A rough one for Hillary? Not at all.

Indeed, Clinton, expected to announce her presidential run shortly, made 45 campaign appearances for Democrats in less than two months that she intentionally scheduled close together for maximum impact and attention. But getting those Democrats elected wasn’t really the point. She helped them, and now they owe her. She went to bat, and loyalty will be expected in return.

As to Republican control of both chambers in Congress? No problem for Clinton, who will be counting on the near-constant conservative eruptions as GOP leaders attempt to quickly and neatly pass budgets that don’t lead to shutdown fights, to curb excessive oversight investigations that turn off the public, and to quell calls for impeachment once Obama issues his executive order on immigration that Republicans will declare “unconstitutional amnesty.”

A clean wipeout for Democrats is more politically beneficial for the former first lady — the bigger the margin, the better. What if it had gone down to the wire, with one or two runoffs that would decide a Democratic or Republican majority in the Senate? Clinton likely would have been pressed into service, campaigning for Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana or Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn, with the national GOP apparatus — including surrogates like Mitt Romney — campaigning in the same places and tying her to Obama. What if the Senate had split down the middle, like it did in 2000, and Vice President Biden became a senator again, providing the 51st vote and cutting deals that could have potentially helped him run against her for president in 2016?

Read at: http://thehill.com/opinion/ab-stoddard/223068-ab-stoddard-a-bad-night-for-clinton


34 posted on 11/08/2014 2:02:19 PM PST by KeyLargo
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