Yes, republicans will likey take the senate but...

[The Rabbi]

But anyway, when it's all said and done I expect the GOP to still be running the House, and the Dims will hold the Senate

I think it comes down to Obamacare. This fall is going to be a larger disaster than last fall was for them when people get their updated bills and options. However, you know the media and the crony capitalist companies in their pocket like BC/BS are going to try to wait as long as they can for people to realize that to get past the election. It's going to be tight because of the timing of the end of the year and the election. They may just not send out bills until it's past the election. We'll see.

People aren't that stupid. The Democrats are racking up corruption charges and appear to be all out of ideas (which is an improvement. They were full of bad ideas previously). That is classic dynamic for a sea change.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Given that the current poll averages state by state show the Democrats holding the Senate 51 - 49, predictions about the GOP being likely to win Senate don't have much basis in fact.

RealClearPolitics - 2014 Election Maps - Senate No Toss Ups

 

[kaz]

But anyway, when it's all said and done I expect the GOP to still be running the House, and the Dims will hold the Senate

I think it comes down to Obamacare. This fall is going to be a larger disaster than last fall was for them when people get their updated bills and options. However, you know the media and the crony capitalist companies in their pocket like BC/BS are going to try to wait as long as they can for people to realize that to get past the election. It's going to be tight because of the timing of the end of the year and the election. They may just not send out bills until it's past the election. We'll see.

People aren't that stupid. The Democrats are racking up corruption charges and appear to be all out of ideas (which is an improvement. They were full of bad ideas previously). That is classic dynamic for a sea change.

I hope you're right, but the people have up to this point not convinced me that they are actually not that stupid.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Our biggest economic problem is the enormous wealth inequality in this country. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. Since the recession there has been a significant decrease of high wage jobs and a significant increase in low wage jobs all while corporate profits are at an all time high. Productivity has increased 100% since the 30s for the Lower classes yet wages have only increased 8%. 95% of the income gains have gone to the top 5% of earners. Expert economists say this massive wealthy disparity will only lead to more economic crises. Do you really think republicans are going to do ANYTHING about this problem? No. They won't touch it. They will let it continue. We don't even need to come close to socialism to fix this problem. The wealthy class can still thrive with higher wages for the lower classes.

According to the CBO, raising the min wage to 10.10 will cost 500,000 jobs (big maybe on that). However it will lift 16 million people out of poverty. Not only that, but the higher wages means more consumer spending which means JOB CREATION.

Say what you want about Obama, but we have had consistent job growth since his first year in office. A slow recovery no doubt, but we should all be grateful the economy isn't collapsing.

Why should you vote democrat? Is it because they will fix everything? No. Of course not. The reason you should vote democrat is to keep republicans out of office. Democrats are simply the lesser of two evils.

The dems have done nothing constructive. Hence the landslide that's coming. R's will take control in 14 and 16 and then lose in 18. Both parties are nothing but shit.

 

[Edgetho]

Given that the current poll averages state by state show the Democrats holding the Senate 51 - 49, predictions about the GOP being likely to win Senate don't have much basis in fact.

RealClearPolitics - 2014 Election Maps - Senate No Toss Ups

The majority of those polls are phony.

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Thanks,

Nancy

You're gonna get CRUSHED in Nov. Won't even be close. I'm thinking between 10 and 15 seats you lose.

Your base is demoralized, young people are disinterested, they feel like the lying ********** in chief lied to them, Blacks got no reason to go look for their jumper cables without the Magic Negro running, the poor are getting kinda tired of being poor and worst of all...?

Republicans are MOTIVATED.

The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi, the IRS, gay butt ranger crap, Russia, Syria, Iran, Israel, Egypt, etc, etc is getting to people.

No single one of the ****-ups by the lying ********** in chief is enough to motivate Republicans but when you add them all together....?

It's pretty bad.

Keep dreaming libturd lapdog. I'll be laughing at you

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[Qball]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Our biggest economic problem is the enormous wealth inequality in this country. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. Since the recession there has been a significant decrease of high wage jobs and a significant increase in low wage jobs all while corporate profits are at an all time high. Productivity has increased 100% since the 30s for the Lower classes yet wages have only increased 8%. 95% of the income gains have gone to the top 5% of earners. Expert economists say this massive wealthy disparity will only lead to more economic crises. Do you really think republicans are going to do ANYTHING about this problem? No. They won't touch it. They will let it continue. We don't even need to come close to socialism to fix this problem. The wealthy class can still thrive with higher wages for the lower classes.

According to the CBO, raising the min wage to 10.10 will cost 500,000 jobs (big maybe on that). However it will lift 16 million people out of poverty. Not only that, but the higher wages means more consumer spending which means JOB CREATION.

Say what you want about Obama, but we have had consistent job growth since his first year in office. A slow recovery no doubt, but we should all be grateful the economy isn't collapsing.

Why should you vote democrat? Is it because they will fix everything? No. Of course not. The reason you should vote democrat is to keep republicans out of office. Democrats are simply the lesser of two evils.

Oh, babu...

I wont get into this whole thing right now, but let's take your list of things Americans supposedly support:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

One and three "most Americans support" Because Free Money. That doesn't mean it's a good idea Because Economics. If most Americans support background checks for gun ownership it's probably due to most Americans not knowing much about gun rights issues (because background checks already exist) and Democrats using incidents like the attack on Gabbie Giffords and the Sandy Hook shooting to scare people into thinking crazy people having access to firearms is the fault of the government for not doing due diligence. Number four is only popular because of the liberal tactic of Not Calling Shit What It Really Is. You guys call it a "path to citizenship for illegal immigrants"; we call it what it is, which is "amnesty for people currently breaking the law".

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Dude...having this much of a hateboner for Republicans is not a good look. It makes you sound less like someone who's interested in politics and more like somebody who hasn't gotten laid in awhile. Just saying.

Likely the reason Republicans will take back the Senate is because Obama and Democrats spent most of his first time sucking the air out of the room by shilling for your precious health-care reform and little else.

 

[Katzndogz]

Under the obama curse, our credit has been downgraded, China surpassed us as the world's largest economy and our military is being systematically destroyed.

What's not to like?

 

[Billy000]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Our biggest economic problem is the enormous wealth inequality in this country. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. Since the recession there has been a significant decrease of high wage jobs and a significant increase in low wage jobs all while corporate profits are at an all time high. Productivity has increased 100% since the 30s for the Lower classes yet wages have only increased 8%. 95% of the income gains have gone to the top 5% of earners. Expert economists say this massive wealthy disparity will only lead to more economic crises. Do you really think republicans are going to do ANYTHING about this problem? No. They won't touch it. They will let it continue. We don't even need to come close to socialism to fix this problem. The wealthy class can still thrive with higher wages for the lower classes.

According to the CBO, raising the min wage to 10.10 will cost 500,000 jobs (big maybe on that). However it will lift 16 million people out of poverty. Not only that, but the higher wages means more consumer spending which means JOB CREATION.

Say what you want about Obama, but we have had consistent job growth since his first year in office. A slow recovery no doubt, but we should all be grateful the economy isn't collapsing.

Why should you vote democrat? Is it because they will fix everything? No. Of course not. The reason you should vote democrat is to keep republicans out of office. Democrats are simply the lesser of two evils.

Oh, babu...

I wont get into this whole thing right now, but let's take your list of things Americans supposedly support:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

One and three "most Americans support" Because Free Money. That doesn't mean it's a good idea Because Economics. If most Americans support background checks for gun ownership it's probably due to most Americans not knowing much about gun rights issues (because background checks already exist) and Democrats using incidents like the attack on Gabbie Giffords and the Sandy Hook shooting to scare people into thinking crazy people having access to firearms is the fault of the government for not doing due diligence. Number four is only popular because of the liberal tactic of Not Calling Shit What It Really Is. You guys call it a "path to citizenship for illegal immigrants"; we call it what it is, which is "amnesty for people currently breaking the law".

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Dude...having this much of a hateboner for Republicans is not a good look. It makes you sound less like someone who's interested in politics and more like somebody who hasn't gotten laid in awhile. Just saying.

Likely the reason Republicans will take back the Senate is because Obama and Democrats spent most of his first time sucking the air out of the room by shilling for your precious health-care reform and little else.

Yeah that's it. I am sexually frustrated. You called it.


Idiot.

 

[Meathead]

Yeah that's it. I am sexually frustrated. You called it.


Idiot.

Perhaps you could channel your sexual frustrations toward something more constructive, like...well pretty much anything besides apologizing for Obama's failures.

 

[Unkotare]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

If their ideas are so popular, Billy, why will they lose the Senate?

Because Americans have only two choices. .

There are many political parties in America.

 

[Katzndogz]

Actually the Dims are the greater of two evils.

But anyway, when it's all said and done I expect the GOP to still be running the House, and the Dims will hold the Senate.

Hopefully the House will have enough power to keep Obama in check, and make his remaining time in the WH mostly useless.

Not even democrats think they will hold the senate. Democrat senators are weak in their own states. It's not only how the Senate is perceived nationally.

The democrats are more than the greater of two evils. They have moved into absolute evil. The country needs an exorcism to rid us of this kind of evil.

 

[Spoonman]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

perhaps you should wake up to the fact that legislation like this is exactly why the republicans will take over the senate

 

[Avatar4321]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

perhaps you should wake up to the fact that legislation like this is exactly why the republicans will take over the senate

They can't accept that their policies are unpopular or ineffective because it means they might be *gasp* wrong.

 

[FJO]

...The country is fucked if they do. Congressional democrats may be mostly useless, but they at least push legislation that popular opinion supports:

1) Raising the minimum wage
2) Background checks for gun ownership
3) Extending unemployment insurance
4) Path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

Yes Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, but guess what? He still has twice the approval ratings republicans do. Even democrats have higher approval ratings. So why will republicans likely take the senate? I have no idea. They are corrupt, self interested, scumbags. Americans need to wake up. I dream of a world without republicans and their propaganda machine Fox News.

Our biggest economic problem is the enormous wealth inequality in this country. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. Since the recession there has been a significant decrease of high wage jobs and a significant increase in low wage jobs all while corporate profits are at an all time high. Productivity has increased 100% since the 30s for the Lower classes yet wages have only increased 8%. 95% of the income gains have gone to the top 5% of earners. Expert economists say this massive wealthy disparity will only lead to more economic crises. Do you really think republicans are going to do ANYTHING about this problem? No. They won't touch it. They will let it continue. We don't even need to come close to socialism to fix this problem. The wealthy class can still thrive with higher wages for the lower classes.

According to the CBO, raising the min wage to 10.10 will cost 500,000 jobs (big maybe on that). However it will lift 16 million people out of poverty. Not only that, but the higher wages means more consumer spending which means JOB CREATION.

Say what you want about Obama, but we have had consistent job growth since his first year in office. A slow recovery no doubt, but we should all be grateful the economy isn't collapsing.

Why should you vote democrat? Is it because they will fix everything? No. Of course not. The reason you should vote democrat is to keep republicans out of office. Democrats are simply the lesser of two evils.

If only Democrats didn't squander the opportunity they were handed in 2008.

If only they created good legislation, put money toward infrastructure instead of settling for photo ops in front of bridges, put their weight behind comprehensive immigration reform in the first year of the Obama administration as explicitly promised, crafted a health reform law which was good enough that they didn't need to lie about it, honored pledges about lobbyists and transparency, ... little things like that.

If they had been trustworthy, perhaps their hold on the Senate would not be endangered now.

If only republicans in Congress had funded those infrastructure and jobs programs when they were proposed.

If only those "shovel ready jobs" Obama joked about, when he finally realized that they were not shovel ready, had been shovel ready!

 

[ogibillm]

i do expect republicans to gain seats in the senate. not sure about gains in the house. that said, i do expect the pendulum to start swinging away from republicans quickly after the election.

 

[FJO]

Given that the current poll averages state by state show the Democrats holding the Senate 51 - 49, predictions about the GOP being likely to win Senate don't have much basis in fact.

RealClearPolitics - 2014 Election Maps - Senate No Toss Ups

You are probably right. November is a long time off and Republicans have an unsurpassed talent to mess up their own chances.

 

[Billy000]

Can an rw here tell me how exactly republicans would fix thińgs? Tell me specifically what will republicans do fix our economy with the issues I have brought up?

Let me guess: tax cuts and deregulation? Guess what. Neither one of those policies would fix shit.

 

[FJO]

Can an rw here tell me how exactly republicans would fix thińgs? Tell me specifically what will republicans do fix our economy with the issues I have brought up?

Let me guess: tax cuts and deregulation? Guess what. Neither one of those policies would fix shit.

Getting a veto proof majority in the Senate would render Obama an impotent emperor-wannabe, would be the first step to normalcy.

 

[Billy000]

Can an rw here tell me how exactly republicans would fix thińgs? Tell me specifically what will republicans do fix our economy with the issues I have brought up?

Let me guess: tax cuts and deregulation? Guess what. Neither one of those policies would fix shit.

Getting a veto proof majority in the Senate would render Obama an impotent emperor-wannabe, would be the first step to normalcy.

Ok and after that? What?

Pure hypothetical. Let's say republicans controlled all three branches. How would they improve the country?

 

[Spoonman]

Can an rw here tell me how exactly republicans would fix thińgs? Tell me specifically what will republicans do fix our economy with the issues I have brought up?

Let me guess: tax cuts and deregulation? Guess what. Neither one of those policies would fix shit.

can anyone explain to me how the democrats have ever stopped deregulation that they claim republicans started?

can anyone tell me the legislation that allowed deregulation?