A complete rejection of President Obama, his agenda, and his ideology

[Mustang]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

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2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

 

[Antares]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

 

[Clementine]

A huge percentage of the country doesn't like the direction its heading and last I heard Barry and his posse are at the helm doing the directing.

Glad we only have two more years of that lame duck Barry boy. Can't wait to see the backside of his sorry ass.

It is indeed the policies people are against.

Of course the liberal media is busy finding other excuses.

This MSNBC idiot thinks it's partly because of old white people in the south, who apparently can't die fast enough.

MSNBC Old White People in the South Need to 8216 Die 8217 So Democrats Can Take Power Top Right News

It is common for the people to send a message to presidents by surrounding them with the opposing party. It doesn't happen this way when people are happy about the direction the country is headed. It's telling that traditionally blue states turned. Colorado and Illinois people opted for Republicans, which indicates that even the Dem voters are unhappy.

But the media will continue with the spin because they can't fathom people not embracing a big liberal government.

 

[Mustang]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

 

[Antares]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

I seriously question the intentions of someone who says "Ok you won NOW you MUST only send the President Bills he agrees with."

That is silliness beyond belief.

 

[Some Guy]

It's the two party system. You put one group of assholes in, they fuck shit up, so the only option is to put the other assholes in and give them another shot.

Rinse and repeat.

 

[BlindBoo]

Damn and just two years ago the Electorate wanted what the LIBS were selling.

Two years ago the American people had a choice between a guy who had signed universal government health care into law, and another guy who had signed universal government health care into law.

Republicans threw up their hands and stayed home in droves, and the Democrats who wanted others to pay for them re-elected Obama.

Last night, the Republicans didn't stay home. And neither did the Democrats, many of whom voted against Obama's allies. You see the result.

One of the problems with living by the lie as Democrats have for so long, is that eventually you get caught, and people realize you can't deliver.

That's what happened to Democrats this election.

Nope, the breakdown shows that mostly the conservative white voters voted Republican. Higher numbers in a nationwide vote will favor the Democrats.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

This is earth-shattering news, is it not? I mean, no other 2-term President in the history of the United States ever had his political party suffer a loss on the mid-terms, right?

Yup. Actually every single one, 2-term, 1-term and 4-term.

But let's all act like this is the first time. Yeah that's the ticket.

Party ideologues.... smh

We have won the most seats in the house since the 20's.

FAR from typical

 

[jasonnfree]

In 2016 the Dem voters will show up, not just ADHD brainwashed Pub dupes...

Blacks are never showing up like they did for Obama.

And those that do are learning the Dems are their worst enemy.

Blacks turn on dems, the latest from fox news. So why do republicans make it so hard for people to vote if everybody hates Obama anyway?

 

[BlindBoo]

Damn and just 6 years ago we rejected the GOP, their Agenda, and Ideology.

Fickle or just mid term demographics?

Try 8 years ago.

We did then too, but that was just a mid term that got the Dems a simple majority. 6 years ago they almost got to the magic number of 60 ( because they blah, blah , blah, ..... the failed Agenda.....blah, blah, blah..........fuck it, I'm going with fickle!)

 

[hazlnut]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

Gingrich must have been the worst history ever - piss poor.

He seems to know little about U.S. History and political trends.

 

[mudwhistle]

Damn and just 6 years ago we rejected the GOP, their Agenda, and Ideology.

Fickle or just mid term demographics?

Try 8 years ago.

We did then too, but that was just a mid term that got the Dems a simple majority. 6 years ago they almost got to the magic number of 60 ( because they blah, blah , blah, ..... the failed Agenda.....blah, blah, blah..........fuck it, I'm going with fickle!)

Blah blah blah muscles blah blah blah muscles....

 

[PredFan]

It's a realization, too late unfortunately, that liberal policies do not work. We told them that all the time but the idiot American voters have to be smacked upside the head with a brick to snap them out of their hypnotic trance the democrats put them in. Too late though afraid.

 

[francoHFW]

Actually, it's Reaganist/voodoo tax rates and policies, that Pubs have defended to the death (of the nonrich and the country), that aren't working. By 2016, O-Care will be loved and Pub BS will be obvious, and the young will vote. Read something.

 

[PredFan]

There is some epic left wing butthurt manifesting itself on this board.

Life is good!

 

[Mustang]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

I seriously question the intentions of someone who says "Ok you won NOW you MUST only send the President Bills he agrees with."

That is silliness beyond belief.

The point is to find common ground that you can agree to and not waste everyone's time legislating a bill that will die on the vine after weeks or even months of working on it almost every day.

 

[Antares]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

I seriously question the intentions of someone who says "Ok you won NOW you MUST only send the President Bills he agrees with."

That is silliness beyond belief.

The point is to find common ground that you can agree to and not waste everyone's time legislating a bill that will die on the vine after weeks or even months of working on it almost every day.

I would agree but Obama has never sought any "common ground" he has simply told the Republican's

"I WON"

 

[Roadrunner]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

---------------------------------------

2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

Congress should and will pass bills that are in the best interest of America.

That Obama will veto them should not be a consideration.

 

[Roadrunner]

Republicans who swept the Democrats from office last night, didn't run as a party with a stated agenda.
Many of the individual candidates ran on disagreeing with Obamacare and wanting it repealed. Others ran on the poor condition of the economy and the leftist actions that prolonged the recession for so long.

Overall, the election showed, not so much the people's approval of Republicans (which has been lukewarm for more than a decade), but on virulent rejection of President Obama and his agenda, his results, and his and ideology.

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2014 Midterms A complete rejection of President Obama his agenda and his leadership Fox News

Democrats and Republicans alike predicted that November 4 would be a big night for the GOP. The polling had indicated that the election – in the Senate and on the state level – was going to go their direction.

What began as cautious optimism has ended up just about as well as could have ever been expected. Even in races where Republicans didn’t end up with a victory, we saw closer races than predicted.

Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president. And it was about negativity and dirty tactics.

All in all, the net negative view of President Obama was over 30 points in battleground states.

This election represents a complete rejection of the president, his agenda and his leadership.

This is true in traditionally Republican states, but crucially in the states that defined his victory in both 2008 and 2012.

Newt Gingrich argued on CNN this evening that these tight races across the nation indicates that campaigns actually matter and that tonight is a good for American democracy.

I respectfully disagree. Tuesday night wasn’t about campaigns – it was about a deeply unpopular president, and American abhorrence of what he and his allies tried to do.

To this end, Tuesday night’s final result isn’t anything but deeply disheartening.

I see that the post-election analyses have begun.

Unfortunately, we can count on a couple of things to happen.

For one, we can count on Democrats to claim that this is NOT a rejection of their policies, per se.

Secondly, we can count on Republicans to claim that it IS a rejection of those polices and/or that it's an electoral embrace of conservative ideas and their governing philosophy.

However, there IS another even more likely possibility which bodes poorly for the country as a whole and is an indictment on the current state of politics and governance in America. It's a combination of apathy and disillusionment with the political process as a whole, gridlock in general, and politics as usual.

Since the US has a notoriously generally apathetic electorate which culminates in an embarrassingly low turnout of only about 53% of eligible voters in years when it's a presidential election year and even far less in off year elections, AND the fact that so many people are not engaged or invested in the process because they think their vote has little meaning, AND the fact that large amounts of money from undisclosed sources have been allowed to flood the process, AND the fact that people in generally are mostly completely turned off by all the negative campaign ads, AND the fact that a small highly energized segment of the electorate dictates not only who the nominees of their party will be but can determine the outcome of a general election, this election may have considerably more to do with a general disengagement of a majority of eligible voters than any kind of ideological rejection or support for any particular party or their policies.

But I fully expect everybody to put their own self-serving spin on the outcome in an effort to burnish the credibility of whatever their governing philosophy may be. With that said, it's almost a certainty that the Republicans will overreach in the reading of the results which frankly is not supported by the simple fact that the midterm turnout is so low.

And when push comes to shove, the Republicans will probably pass bills that they KNOW the president will not sign, and the gridlock will continue for another two years, just like it has for the last two years.

So, like Jake, franco,and JoeB you think we should ONLY send him Bills he will sign..

Amazing.

I seriously question both the intentions and the wisdom of people who waste their time crafting bills they know won't be signed into law when they also know they don't have the votes to override a veto.

I seriously question the intentions of someone who says "Ok you won NOW you MUST only send the President Bills he agrees with."

That is silliness beyond belief.

The point is to find common ground that you can agree to and not waste everyone's time legislating a bill that will die on the vine after weeks or even months of working on it almost every day.

Obama and the Dems have made it clear for six years there is no common ground.

 

[Roadrunner]

It's a realization, too late unfortunately, that liberal policies do not work. We told them that all the time but the idiot American voters have to be smacked upside the head with a brick to snap them out of their hypnotic trance the democrats put them in. Too late though afraid.

I think they are coming around.

Now, if Republicans accept it is in the best interest of the country to provide BC to those that need it, accept that abortion is here to stay, but most can be prevented, and that unwanted children are worse than free BC or abortion, and remember that gays are such a small minority the chances of a married pair interfering with the average person are miniscule, they might be able to get on with the business of the nation, which if fixing its economy and finances.