How big could the House Republican majority get in November?

washingtonpost.com ^ | 9/27/2014 | Philip Bump

[rktman]

In an update on Friday afternoon, one of the country's leading independent political handicappers broadened its assessment of how many House seats Republicans are likely to win this fall. "Regardless of whether you want to call it a wave," wrote the Rothenberg Political Report's Nathan Gonzales -- the sort of qualifier that will keep Democratic operatives up at night -- "the fight for the House continues to creep into Democratic territory."

[rktman]

I, for one, ain't gonna be holding in any earth killing See-Uh-Oh-2 in anticipation. Seems as if the republicrats have an odd love of foot wounds. And, if by some odd quirk of fate, they do win a majority in the senate, raise your hands for yes, will anything more get done than now?

[Pearls Before Swine]

It could be 100%, but it won’t make much difference if there’s a Dem controlled Senate, and a Boehner controlled House.

[Starboard]

how many House seats Republicans are likely to win this fall

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As Hillary would say, “what differences does it make!” lol
Pubbies will squander any advantage, no matter how great. They are a party with no direction, no convictions, and no leadership. And as you so aptly put it, they have an odd love of foot wounds.

I’m not raising my hand. lol

[rktman]

LOL! Well, looks like 3 hands down so far. But I am NOT doing a running tally.

[grania]

I'm coming around. If a US Senate majority gets some conservative victories, that'll give the Ted Cruz conservatives more clout. Jodie Ernst winning, for instance, would send the message loud and clear, I'd think.

The majority will mean nothing, though, if Cochran holds that seat. Maybe the powerbroker 'pubs will smarten up and get that nomination to McDaniel, this week at the latest.

[Don Corleone]

Obama can and will do anything that he wants as long as there are not 67 sure senate votes for his impeachment. It is the one major flaw in the Constitution and the Marxists have found it and are exploiting it.

[PoloSec]

My concern is how many conservative republicans, that is what is needed to dump Boehner.

There needs to an end of the Rino’s war on conservatives.

[Liz]

The Chicago criminal combine is working overtime to save his ***...... Obama would rather eat Michele's boiled kale stems than face an-all Republican Congress.

Obama's acting more and more like a psychopathic "stalker" who can't take no for an answer. He will force himself on the body politic, no matter how destructive the consequences.

Significantly when Americans spoke-up, Obama exhibited the serial stalker's sociopathic mindset----reminding his victims he had a "phone and a pen"----classic tools used by stalkers to keep control over their victims.

Obama's clinical motivations meet all the standard stalking criteria:

<><> an obsessive desire to control,

<><> repeated destructive behavior,

<><> not listening to pleas to back-off,

<><> hidden anger stemming from the extreme hatred he exhibits for certain segments of the population.

These personality disorders--- and the obsessive-compulsive behavior---lead him to devote an inordinate amount of time writing executive orders to control the narrative, tracking down, "targeting," and punishing recalcitrant victims----all of them the stalker's attempt to achieve total control over his targets.

Telling Obama to "get lost" seems futile.

We need to get a restraining order against him.

[Carl Vehse]

How many will be RINOs through and through?

[rktman]

Easier answer is how many will NOT be rinos. Short answer, VDF. Very Damn Few.

[ChildOfThe60s]

but it won’t make much difference if there’s a Dem controlled Senate

I seriously wonder if Pubbies had 98 seats in the Senate, what are the odds it would be veto proof?

[antidisestablishment]

Exactly. A Republican House means nothing as long as Bonehead is in charge. Being Republican means nothing to RINOs.

The Party Above Principle hacks consistently support usurping the Constitution. Vote only for Conservatives. It’s time to just say No to RINOs.

[SandRat]

Democrats could end up designated-an Endangered Specie’s by the EPA.

[rktman]

LOL! If only. They do deserve “special” treatment as do all mentally deficient folks. Then there are the criminally insane.

[FreeReign]

Boehner and McConnell will do absolutely nothing against Obama with their majorities.

Cruz - 2016.

[DuncanWaring]

Don’t forget 1995.

After being the minority party for two generations, the majority-Republicans continued to act like the minority, rolling-over to the ‘rats.

[JPG]

RINO led Gangs are awaiting orders from their rat bosses

[etcb]

Exactly. A Republican House means nothing as long as Bonehead is in charge. Being Republican means nothing to RINOs.

The Party Above Principle hacks consistently support usurping the Constitution. Vote only for Conservatives. It’s time to just say No to RINOs.

Among a small group, it has become almost a religion to proclaim how they are "conservatives" and not republicans while at the same time urging everyone to support the democrat in order to punish the republicans. Yet they deride the republican as being RINO (republican in name only). It appears logic has clearly taken a back seat to name calling and trite slogans.

[Enterprise]

You can outnumber a bully, but if you are cowards, the bully still rules. That’s what we will face if the Republicans win control of the Senate.

[Enterprise]

Even if the Republicans could win the Senate and pull off their own “nuclear option” making a simple majority enough for removal, the Republicans would still cower and hide.