Aaron Strife
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Btw there's another elections forecaster, Sam Wang who has Democratic odds a little higher than Nate. His record is better than Nate's as well.
Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.This is glorious.
To be fair, if the Senate elections were fully national Democrats would probably retain a majority.Around the year 2000, a republican congress pushes wall street deregulation into law, setting up for the 2008 crash. George Bush has 8 years and a mostly republican congress where he does absolutely nothing to scout out and stop the 2008 crash.
When democrats get handed the keys to fixed that screw up, republicans filibuster everything in 2009 and 2010 slowing things down a bunch. Republicans then take the house and attach Obamacare repeals/delays to everything, while trying to remove everything democrats like about existing bills whenever they come up for renewals, knowing democrats can't accept that, slowing things down to a complete halt.
But we're fed up with how Democrats haven't done enough to fix the problems Republicans made with all the obstructions Republicans are putting them through, so it's time to try something different and go with Republicans, I guess.
And because a couple red state democrats joined the republican filibuster when they had the supermajority, and one democrat signed those deregulations into law, apparently the entire democrat party is 100% equally bad as the republicans, so why vote for any of them at all?
Not to worry. The Electoral College is insanely tilted in favor of whomever the Democrats nominate. The GOP would have to run the table on swing states near perfectly - and their candidate would barely get past 269EVs.
Gaining control of a chamber that wasn't going to pass much anyway over the next two years is a consolation prize for the GOP. It's like winning Advil when you come in second place on Jeopardy.
See you in 2016.Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.
Tides... How do they work? They've turned.
Also, where does this notion come from that the Electoral College is more stacked in the Dems favor than the popular vote? Republicans prefer it for a reason, and that reason is the over representation red states receive in the midwest thanks to the Senate.
Just in time for the Republicans to take credit for an improving economy.
This wouldn't be the case if my fellow young voters weren't such lazy out of touch pricks during the midterms. The amount of people in their 20s who don't vote in the midterms is pathetic.
8 years of hillary being filibustered by republicans? can't wait. -_-See you in 2016.
Opposed to an insane GOP agenda that will be even worse?8 years of hillary being filibustered by republicans? can't wait. -_-
Most young voters prefer republicans according to recent polls...I don't understand how that is possible.
8 years of hillary being filibustered by republicans? can't wait. -_-
Most young voters prefer republicans according to recent polls...I don't understand how that is possible.
Why?Good!
Democrats have a way better work ethic, I've found, over the many years.Young Democrats are too busy working to answer their phones or to actively be polled.
Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.
Tides... How do they work? They've turned.
Well normally everyone is able to work together and compromise, however that hasn't been the case in recent years as you've probably noticed. Short of a democratic majority in both houses of Congress nothing was ever going to get done while Obama is in office.
If I remember correctly, Obama had a majority in both houses (including a super majority in the Senate) during his first two years in office, and he still had trouble getting things done.
To those who follow these things more closely than I, what kind of damage could this do to abortion rights and the progress made in recent years on marriage equality? There's a "prop 1" here in Tennessee that's a pretty straightforward attack on abortion, with banners hanging off of church signs demanding a yes, I'd imagine it'll pass when God is literally telling people how to vote. But gay marriage, you can't untumble those dominoes, can you?
Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.
Tides... How do they work? They've turned.
Expect the GOP to push more regressive voting policies to make up for their disadvantage in the EC. Can't expand your voter base? Do the next best thing and kneecap your opponent's voter base as much as possible.
Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.
Tides... How do they work? They've turned.
Hope you're prepared to be disappointed when the Republican civil war breaks out and they don't get anything done for 2 years and then lose seats in 2016.Damn right it is. The pretentiousness and arrogance of Democrats and, particularly, liberals has finally reached the breaking point.
Tides... How do they work? They've turned.
I'm starting to dislike"liberals" almost as equally as conservatives. Just a fucking useless voting block when you really need it. All of this bullshit could of been avoided in 2010 if the same god damn people who voted for Obama in 2008 just fucking showed up to vote.
As the education system gets worse the more likely they are to vote for idiots, Republicans got the strategy down pat.
Most young voters prefer republicans according to recent polls...I don't understand how that is possible.
To those who follow these things more closely than I, what kind of damage could this do to abortion rights and the progress made in recent years on marriage equality? There's a "prop 1" here in Tennessee that's a pretty straightforward attack on abortion, with banners hanging off of church signs demanding a yes, I'd imagine it'll pass when God is literally telling people how to vote. But gay marriage, you can't untumble those dominoes, can you?
Most young voters prefer republicans according to recent polls...I don't understand how that is possible.
You bring up an interesting point. I've maintained that the Republican party is actually playing defense in a sense that they can't pick up significant numbers in years like this one when the map and the type of election are in their favor. I've told my conservative friends that the Republicans need at least 55 seats to start getting anything done but they're looking to only get a maximum of 52 and they'll be working with more moderate republicans that won't want to go along with an extremely conservative agenda or anything that would hurt them or their blue and swing state constituents.It's worth noting -- and remember this when people tell you Dems dropped the ball in the Senate should they lose -- that since they won back the majority in 2006, Senate Democrats have consistently exceeded expectations. They won not only nearly everywhere they were supposed to, but in places where they messed up (i.e. Pennsylvania) they made up for in spades in Indiana, North Dakota and Missouri. Scott Brown had a short-lived period of bragging rights for having Ted Kennedy's seat but Elizabeth Warren took care of that.
I always mention to people in my age group (26) and younger that want to vote for a Ron or Rand Paul type that it's too bad that the Republicans hate Ron/Rand Paul and their policies. A young person may like the Paul's philosophies but they tend to hate the Republican party for being ass-backwards on social issues. For example, many young conservatives are for gay marriage and for abortion and for legalization of marijuana and for equal rights, and for a more secular government since they tend to be constitutionalists while the majority of the Republican party is not. This leads them to either stay home, or vote Libertarian, or vote Democrat, but not Republican.I'm in graduate school and the undergraduates who are 5 years younger than me have no formative memory of Bush or the Bush era starting from when they were politically aware. They're basically associating bad times with Obama and Democrats and didn't experience the cause. Attendance in the Young Democrats at this flagship University is a third of what it was when I first came here. So many are falling into the quasi libertarianism like Ron or Rand Paul.
Well, I'm sure the US public will figure out that it's voting against its interests once the environment is fucked, the police state is total, and the social safety net is dismantled. Or will they blame Obama for the next 8 years?
Well, I'm sure the US public will figure out that it's voting against its interests once the environment is fucked, the police state is total, and the social safety net is dismantled. Or will they blame Obama for the next 8 years?
now they can finally repeal obamacare
now they can finally repeal obamacare
now they can finally repeal obamacare
Honestly, I hope they go for it. I hope they get full control of the legislature (they will) and go full on bat shit crazy. Do it, please.
I'm going to have one heavy drinking night Tuesday... Scott Walker is going to win governor again, that human piece of fucking garbage in my state, Glenn Grothman will probably win his election, and the republicans will take the senate. Why the fuck are people damned stupid in this country/state? I truly don't understand. Not even a little.
I'm going to have one heavy drinking night Tuesday... Scott Walker is going to win governor again, that human piece of fucking garbage in my state, Glenn Grothman will probably win his election, and the republicans will take the senate. Why the fuck are people damned stupid in this country/state? I truly don't understand. Not even a little.
Please, feel for Texas man. We have had 14 years of Rick Perry, and we are about to get a carbon copy in a wheelchair. Then you have Dan Patrick who feels that creationism must be taught in schools, that abortion should be outlawed even the case of rape/incest, both want to fight against civil unions, not to mention what they want to do to education, etc. etc.