Posted on 10/18/2013 10:40:32 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Next years midterm elections for Congress are now a tossup between the Republicans and the Democrats, according to the betting at the Iowa Electronic Markets the only sportsbook in America allowed to bet on U.S. elections.
Nancy Pelosis chances of leading the Democrats to a House majority have more than doubled in less than a month to about 50% as a result of the government-shutdown fiasco, according to betting on the exchange.
And the Republicans, who appeared to have a lock on the elections just a few weeks ago, have seen their chances collapse at the same time.
Back in September, oddsmakers gave the Republicans a one-in-four chance of gaining seats, improving their overall control of the lower house. Thats now down to one-in-twenty. (The numbers sometimes dont add up to 100% because of trading spreads.)
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Therell come a point when Obama realizes that he should have taken Cruzes very reasonable offer.
In my opinion, Cruz could not lose on this. He won, in the long run, no matter which way this went. And, frankly, the “loss” may actually be to the benefit of Conservatives in the long run.
The bible is big on letting evil come to full fruition so there is no doubt - and then it is destroyed.
Dems are crowing a little too early. We still have over a year to the congressional elections and Obamacare hasn’t had a chance to wreak its havoc across the country yet. A year in politics is a very long time.
So? What’s the difference?
Sorry Hostage, there is no such thing as a moderate republican or democrat, they are either in the conservative or liberal camp.
The so-called moderates especially in the senate is why we got killed the last two weeks. I am not going to reward them for that, even if we vote for them and we “win” when it comes time to stand up and be counted we know that “win” will bite us in the butt see John Benedict Arnold McCain.
The time worn and thread bear Republican booge man of vote for us even it we are moderates/liberals because the democrat boogey man will get you is done. The moderate/liberal republican boogey man did more damage and got us——again.
No more moderates/liberals for me.
The odds of the out-party losing a mid-term election against a lame-duck president are pretty long. Don’t believe the hype.
They talk about the need for a “Third Party”.
To get that, we need a “Second Party”, first.
I believe only 4 seats went to the Dems.
This is because voters no longer pick their Representatives.
Representatives pick their voters.
LOL!
/johnny
Yeah, just like Bush 41 was a shoe-in for re-election in March 1991 with a 90% approval rating.
Snore.
So I guess this means the Obamacare programming money was actually spent on programming for National election fraud. That would both explain why the Obamacare rollout was completely amateurish and the odds are favoring Dems.
What a "priceless" tagline!!!
The cartoon ain't bad either...
The best way to turn things around is to point to the all the problems of Obamacare and let everyone know that Republicans did their best to try and delay the disaster.
The best way to turn things around is to point to the all the problems of Obamacare and let everyone know that Republicans did their best to try and delay the disaster.
With the shut-down, Republicans had a chance to stop the imposition of Obamacare—They failed.
I’m done holding my nose—2012 and Romney was the last time.
Why should I vote for a candidate and party that do not oppose the Democrats or represent my interests?
I fully expect the House to go Democrat in 2014 as a lot of disgusted conservatives will be staying home.
If you don’t have a conservative on the ticket worth a damn, then you’re going to be sitting out the election.
If you vote for a democrat to spite the republicans in your district, you’re delusional at best.
If I were to have a moderate on the republican ticket and no conservative worth a damn, and if such a moderate were liberal on social issues like VAWA, Homosexual marriage and smoke all the pot you want, AND was conservative on fiscal issues such as defund Obamacare, then I vote for the moderate who might be more aptly called a libertarian. I wouldn’t like it but it would be better than sitting home and letting the democrat union goon rep take the election in a cakewalk.
But such a moderate would get a 2 year term while I would be working behind the scenes to scout out a strong tea party conservative that could persuade the voters we have the better smarts.
I will say I did spend some time over the last couple of weeks contacting various reps and sending a firm message about what their votes would mean to me. I didn't waste a breath of air on the so-called leadership, but those I did contact voted correctly (no) on the capitulation resolution.
You are one of the very few on this thread who see and recognize the hand of the Chicago Machine's workmanship.
We saw our last "honest" national election in 2008. In 2012 the fraud machine proved it's worth to the MarxoFascists, who did a great job in convincing the country that Obama won 'fair and square' in the popular vote. Now they will do the same thing in key "races" to ensure that power is transferred and remains in the MarxoFascist Party of the Ruling Class.
It's disheartening to read so many clueless people who continue to look at the consequences of a velvet coup - and pretend that's not what really happened by treating the erection of tyranny over us like a silly horserace that they can place bets on to win 'next time around'.
This thread reads like a gambling addict who can't stop putting hope in his next 'big chance ' to score big - even though the fact remains that the House rigs the game in their favor.
The game is rigged folks. Rigged in the Ruling Class' favor to ensure that while they give us an illusion of choice - the Party will pick their "winners".
Cook County went national. History teaches that Marxists who achieve the level of power this party has - NEVER LEAVE OFFICE VIA ELECTIONS. Yet so many on this thread are deluding themselves into thinking that politics is just a game to be played having no understanding of the beast and it's nature that now rules the country.
If they understood history, they would know what time it is. But they don't - so they continue to pretend that we can vote out tyrants in next year's "elections".
Then when Nancy Pelosi is made Speaker again, they will join the Rovians in blaming Conservatives like Ted Cruz for the loss.
This is what Marxist regimes and dictatorial Statists do. But hey - let's put all your faith and hope in another election.
Only hundreds have been able to sign up for a health care plan at the Obamacare websites. The Wall Street Journal reported:
Okay now we will try the landline # 1-800-318-2596 listed above or 1-800-318-2596 = 1-800-FAU-CKYO.
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