Washington Post: 94% Chance Republicans Win Senate

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | October 13, 2014 | Wynton Hall

[2ndDivisionVet]

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A spate of new Senate projections shows Republicans widening the electoral map and increasing their chances of a GOP takeover.

On Monday, the The Washington Post's Election Lab forecast showed Republicans with a 94% chance of winning the Senate and a 99% chance of maintaining control of the House.

The New York Times is similarly projecting a Republican takeover in the Senate. According to the Times' statistical forecast, the GOP currently holds a 64% chance of reclaiming the Senate....

[Buckeye McFrog]

The WaPo is basically telling people don’t bother to vote.

I smell a rat.

[wildbill]

Remember the article posted recently about the computerized voter turnout program that the Dems unveiled in the 2012 election. It has no doubt been extended and revised since then.

For example, you can bet that every single person enrolled in Obamacare with a government subsidy that makes it free will be contacted and told their coverage subsidy will be taken away from them by the mean old Republicans if they don’t get out and support Dem candidates.

The problem with this type of ground game in politics is that it is under the radar and may not be seen by the Republicans with the result that it cannot be countered effectively.

[arasina]

No Cruz doesn’t have it. He is easily characterized as a crackpot and beaten down by the mainstream media.

At least he has already been through the media and political wringer. He has done a bit of pandering here and there but he's still my number one pick. I always keep in mind that everything that is publicized about a conservative Republican is done so in the mainstream media filter. They can make it appear as if the person is something totally different than reality.

Scott Walker if he wins, or Mike Pence.

Same with Scott Walker. Mike Pence is not really even on the radar. He's very low key. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. Who knows?

[arasina]

The WaPo is basically telling people don’t bother to vote.

I smell a rat.

That was my first thought as well. Liberals are very good at social engineering, media manipulation and outright lying. They are the Wizards of Oz.

[Windflier]

No Cruz Reagan doesn’t have it. He is easily charicaturized as a crackpot and beaten down by the mainstream media.

There, fixed it for ya.

[stevie_d_64]

You said the magic phrase “losing a lot since 2006”, you nailed the year...Very few I have seen here put that into a workable post...

You get a cookie!!!

[longtermmemmory]

there is some billionaire environwako who is funding an actual REPUBLICAN VOTER SUPRESSION group.

IOW watch out for trolls here,
kook threads,
red hering threads.
leftwing woe is me propaganda points.

(IOOW creationist threads, we are doomed threads, insane purist threads, dead ender candidate-with-zero-chance-of-winning threads )

[stevie_d_64]

Frustrating isn’t it???

Patience grasshopper...When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to venture forth and allow others to reap the benefits from your wisdom!!! ;-)

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Nice. Correct, no, but cute, definitely ;)

Except Reagan was a governor not a senator. And he didn’t shut down the government.

I have nothing against shutting down the government, in fact I kinda like it. But there are lots of parts of the country that were in no mood for it last year, and we are still paying the price in brand damage. Otherwise, for example, Mark Pryor would be in the same hopeless situation Blanche Lincoln was in. Ditto Kay Hagan. Shaheen. Begich.

Cruz = Goldwater. Love the guy, hate getting our asses handed to us.

Walker = Reagan.

Yes, Cruz is a leader in a way, leading lemmings off the cliff. I trust Cruz’ opinion. I’m terrified of his leadership.

How about Ted Cruz as Scott Walker’s AG? I could abide that!

[Windflier]

Cruz = Goldwater.
Walker = Reagan.

That's more of a point of view, than an accurate analogy. I could use the same names, but pair up Cruz = Reagan, and make a good case for it.

Walker is a fine Governor, but few outside of the most astute political junkies on the right, even know the first thing about the man, personally. There's simply no buzz around his name, due to the fact that he's not actively seeking to be a leader of the conservative right. He's barely made a ripple here at FR, even though he's done an outstanding job.

Like Walker, there have been a ton of great conservatives who could have done an excellent job as president, but they didn't have that 'It' factor that's necessary to draw people to them. Reagan had 'It', and so does Cruz (who, by the way, isn't just another Senator. The man is A+ in all the right categories).

Not long ago, I was of a mind that a presidential candidate HAD to have major executive experience, such has having been a state Governor. I'd still like to see that in our presidents, but we've reached a crisis point in this country that has caused me to set that aside in deference to other, more important leadership qualities.

Ted Cruz has all of the qualities I'm looking for in a president, and he's got my vote if he asks for it.

[Secret Agent Man]

100% chance they won’t do what’s necessary per conservative viewpoint.

[Veto!]

If Obama stays out on the golf course, it may only be an 88% chance. Every time he raises his ugly head, a million more people defect from the Democrat party.

[Secret Agent Man]

if all our guys had to do was jump one yard, they’d deliberately jump backwards.

if they had balls day 1 they’d do one two-part speech. first part. to valerie jarrett, the real person running the whouse while president worm-burner is cheating at golf - and then read her entire ‘payback’ speech right there, addressed to her and the administration. then second part as to how the senate will be run - nod to harry - and explain ow they are gonna live under the same thumb the repubs’lived’under since the nuclear’option was put in plae by harry. only fair. how can they object to their own rules now?

and then final stmt - obama and the democrat agenda is now dead on arrivall. nominees? dead on arrival. we’re not gonna have recesses. no recess appointments. in the house we’re gonna shoot down all executive orders. dead’on arrival. we are the bulwark put in place to stop you at every level. the voters want protection and we’re it.

and then just walk off.

[Din Maker]

McConnell (KY) could lose and we could still win control of the Senate. Then he would be free to just travel the country “crushing” Tea Party folks and true Conservatives.

[Din Maker]

He is easily charicaturized as a crackpot and beaten down by the mainstream media.

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They will try to destroy any chance of his ever being elected like they did Sarah Palin. BTW, the same RINOs who hated Sarah, hate Cruz also.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

If Ted Cruz is our 2016 nominee the analogy will match Goldwater, not Reagan. Great conservative but he’ll get crushed. He is Goldwater different time, same result. Don’t find out the hard way.

if you want a contemporary Ted Cruz analogy it’s Nancy Pelosi. Leftists love to hate Cruz just like we love to hate Pelosi. Democrats will NEVER win the House with Pelosi because the American middle finds it easy to hate Pelosi in a way they just can’t get riled up about Boehner, and leftists just don’t get it. Ditto Cruz - he’s our Pelosi, a great conservative, but despised by the middle for the government shut down. The shutdown is our Obamacare and it’s costing us perhaps 5% in the polls right now.

What we need - and I hate to say this - is a charismatic spokesman for our cause. We all assume that Reagan proved once and for all that free markets and peace-through-strength were good policies. But we have a new generation that “knew not Joseph” so to speak, who know not Reagan, who know not Carter.

Chris Christie is NOT my favorite “conservative” but he knows how to handle east-coast media snobs. When they argue with him they lose and when it’s over they know that they’ve lost.

east coast media: Minimum wage should be $15/hour
Christ Christie: That’s a stupid idea because... parents... kids... aspire.
east coast media: You’re fat.

That’s where Christie’s girth becomes an advantage - when liberals know they’ve lost the argument they resort to blatant,transparent ad hominems, which merely serves to underscore the extent of their defeat.

[Windflier]

If Ted Cruz is our 2016 nominee the analogy will match Goldwater, not Reagan. Great conservative but he’ll get crushed. He is Goldwater different time, same result. Don’t find out the hard way.

Come up to present time, my friend.

This country is on a knife's edge of tension, and there's little left of the nation's foundation stones our forefathers toiled to set in place. We are inches away from some truly historic moment in our nation's history. One that won't be remembered fondly by most who are forced to live through it.

We're going to need a Commander In Chief of extraordinary courage and capabilities to keep the ship of state from capsizing altogether. Politics as usual and 'general wisdom' aren't going to cut it when the very fabric of the social order is being ripped apart.

We're going to need a President whose mindset and caliber of character closely matches those of the Framers, who by your definition, would be considered unelectable right-wing radicals today.

In fact, we are *this close* to passing the stage where a political solution is even possible.

Oh yes -- we need someone just like Barry Goldwater or Ted Cruz to fight our way back from the brink.