Can Democrats Landslide the Republicans?

[Katzndogz]

obama's future will heavily depend on what happens between now and election day. If he keeps alienating people, making missteps in the middle east and democrats start their general riots, he really won't have a prayer.

I see that he scrapped both Mars missions for NASA which virtually guarantees that he will lose Florida.

 

[Dragon]

Interesting how many posters here have obviously answered that question shooting from the hip, without reading the linked article by Nader or even the OP.

I think Nader is, as usual, well worth reading. Key point:

"There are answers that are more specific to account for the large election losses in 2010, the loss of the House of Representatives to John Boehner and Eric Cantor, and the prospect of losing the House and the Senate this November. Chief among them is that the two parties are vigorously dialing for the same commercial dollars to finance their campaigns. The resultant inhibitions and self-censorships bring the parties' real agendas closer together, erasing the bright lines that make elections clearer choices for voters."

Absolutely. The GOP has gone so far off the deep end that not only Obama but in all the Congressional races, too, the Democrats SHOULD beat them in a landslide. If they don't, it's nobody's fault but their own -- and the above is exactly why.

 

[georgephillip]

Possibly any Democrat who veers too far from the 1% party line will find herself running against a very well-funded primary opponent in her next campaign? We need a wall of separation between private wealth and the state that's at least as formidable as the wall between church and state. Republicans AND Democrats have controlled DC since 1860; maybe they're incapable of weaning themselves from the rich?