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It’s going to be more than one race that surprises the 'baggers. The Senate can be held; only a couple of seats are in danger, and we have a legitimate chance to take 1-2 seats away from the GOTP. The current balance will be held. What matters is making gains in the House, and on that front, the D-Trip needs to do a LOT more than it’s doing right now.
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Weirder than Mississippi?
When I think about Harry Reid as Senate leader, a man so feckless he couldn’t even get his side of the aisle to not filibuster against him, and then contemplate the notion that, if unseated in Nevada (which could well happen) he’ll be replaced as leader by Chuck Schumer who, in partnership with Dianne Feinstein, gave us this radical Supreme Court, all of a sudden I’m really not so fired up about saving the Senate for the Dems.
Maybe violently crashing the economy into the fucking ground and utterly destroying the middle class is what’s needed to shake the Fox News watchers out of their delirium. Maybe it’s better that it happen in a way people notice than the boiling frog scenario we have now with Clinton/MacAuliffe Third Way corporate-toe-sucking neoliberal “Democrats” who are turning up the temperature on us a degree at a time.
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“violently crashing the economy” and “utterly destroying the middle class” is exactly what bush did and left for obama in 2009.
it sure shook up the fox news watchers, and they still blame the dems for it.
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“saves Obama from facing an antagonistic Congress for the last two years of his presidency.” Dylan you apparently haven’t been following Obama’s presidency closely have you? He has faced an antagonistic Congress from day one. The GOPTP have been diverting, subverting and sabotaging this country since he was elected.
On top of that his own Democratic party appears to not care one iota for the country, demonstrated by the way they refuse to actually fight against the draconian policies and positions taken by the “other side”. Yes they sort of speak out, fuss and wring their hands but they aren’t fighting for anything but their own jobs.
An interesting article by Ralph Nader pointed out by @pbmom
https://blog.nader.org/2014/08/08/what-the-democratic-party-does-well-doing-itself-in/
I am beginning to think that we may be faced with only one political party in the future, one where that pays homage to their Corporate gods and forgets that it is the American people who work and pay taxes to support them. Without the American peoples’ success there will be only corporate overlords who sure couldn’t survive without the people for whom they hold so much disdain.
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we’ve always had one party, it’s just marketing to force you to pick a side with issues like welfare or abortion to keep you interested, when really it’s not too different from mcdonald’s vs. burger king, or coke vs. pepsi.
That “violently crashing the Economy and utterly destroying the Middle Class”?
The FOX News Watchers been there, did that.
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No, there are profound differences between a party that has people like Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown in the Senate, and a Party that has Inhofe and Ted Cruz in its Leadership. Wake up.
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I’m confused. What exactly is he for. What exactly is he against?
Not even in the same ballpark.
However, the Mississippi general probably won’t provide any blogosphere fodder like the primary did. I believe Cochran has a double digit lead.
Agreed - Alaska is a Shamalyn movie, Mississippi is Lynch, maybe Waters level of bizarre.
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For: shoveling tax dollars from the Lower 48 into the gaping maws of people dumb enough to live in Alaska.
Against: not shoveling tax dollars from the Lower 48 into the gaping maws of people dumb enough to live in Alaska.
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Everything should start becoming much clearer in about 2-3 weeks, once the polling really kicks in after Labor Day.
That being said, I think Begich is in a good spot heading into the General. Ratf_cking Miller into the republican nomination would have made it a gimme, but I still think he can beat Sullivan.
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I just can’t believe that all politics is local, and that a Senate candidate could possibly be playing to the electorate.
I’m going to go lie down now…this is just too much for me.
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Legalizing weed and raising the minimum wage will be on the ballot in Alaska and it’s thought that will draw progressives to come out and vote out. BTW, those three republicans are the most unsavory men I’ve seen in a long time, particularly the one who is in perpetual need of a shave.
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He has a weatherman telling him which way the wind blows.
Uh oh, looks like the Very Serious People in the beltway might be wrong again. Maybe the Republicans won’t with the Senate. I never believed that they could, but I’m also not a Very Serious Person.
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“Odds-makers giving Republicans the edge for now.”
That’s inaccurate. Nate Silver rates the race even, NYT’s Upshot has Begich at 65 percent chance of winning, WaPost puts Begich at 84%.
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I find it very curious - even amusing, if it weren’t so bad - that ALL Republicant / Tea Troll ads & campaigns now are saying all they want to do is make sure Obama and Biden are not happy, gonna give Obama many bad days, stick it to the black man, “be a thorn in his ass” etc.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING related to creating jobs, improving the economy, building infrastructure, fighting terrorism, stopping the NSA, immigration reform, tax reform, … NOTHING!
Their only campaign theme is “Fuck That Black Man!” And people are buying into it.
What has become of the America I grew up in?
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