Unless they do something really stupid {which they are very capable of doing} the pubbies are a solid lock to win the senate, keep the house and beat the hell out of obama.
Remember that stupid is the real name of the pubbie party for a reason, and you can't put anything past them, but as it is shaping up right now, it should be a tsunami, with debbie schultz killing herself on national TV.
Remember that stupid is the real name of the pubbie party for a reason, and you can't put anything past them, but as it is shaping up right now, it should be a tsunami, with debbie schultz killing herself on national TV.
I'm inclined to agree with you, USS Alaska and Lazlo in PA. Willard doesn't inspire the conservative base, but it will be the ABO vote from independents that carries the day, IMHO.
I'm not sure what Willard's political convictions are, or if he has any. If he has none, whatever he did in MA may mean mothing because MA was so far left, e.g. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
When Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat, independent registration was just over 50 percent of MA's voters. (In January 2010 they were called non-affiliated or unaffiliated voters in MA. Rats were just over 38 percent. The GOP were a little over 11 percent.) In a NPR story from September 23, 2010, "Pew surveyed 2,800 registered voters, 37 percent of whom were independents." "Only 34 percent were independent in 2008."
Independent voters can be a huge demographic depending on the state. Now I know that likely voters and swing states are more important in presidential elections, but it was moderate and independent voters that left the GOP in 2006 & 2008, but they came back in 2010. I posted the exit polls for those years. Look under the keyword 20XXexitpoll. Substitute 06, 08 and 10 for XX in 20XXexitpoll.
Hold you're nose again in 2012. I know it hurts, but ABO!
If we're still here in 2016, that's a different story.
Unless they do something really stupid
You mean like nominating a socialist to the top of the ticket?