[2ndDivisionVet]

I expect the Republicans to somehow throw it all away between now and November.

[arderkrag]

Oh, of course. They always do, aided by the “hold-your-nose-and-vote” brigade. Oh, yeh, you’re doing everyone such a favpr by voting for any Republican on the ticket... ::snort::

[Mark17]

I expect the Republicans to somehow throw it all away between now and November.

I keep saying, they do not call them the stupid party for nothing.

[Ray76]

  Here's Johnny

[Graewoulf]

” - - - Craighead County has not been represented by a Republican in the state senate since reconstruction. - - - “

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skinkinthegrass]

history probably will prove you correct.
if there's any chance, GOP/e will blow it.

[robowombat]

This may be somewhat akin to what is going on in Louisiana and might be called the ‘Revenge of the Dixiecrats’. It is clear that in a state that is forty something per cent black as is Louisiana that the current GOP control of both houses of the legislature is a bit odd. Digging deeper, it seems in many rural parishes the local Democrat political leadership are white Blue Dog Democrats who detest National Dem policies. All they want to do is hold on to power at the parish level and make sure that the men (mostly) that get sent to baton Rouge will bring home some pork whether they have an R or a D after their names. These folks have zero interest in ‘community activism’ mode of stirring up the torpid mass of the blackamoors to vote heavily on election day. I suspect this sort of attitude is now spreading to other Bluedog strongholds.

[GeronL]

With amnesty and all the other crap the GOPe is apparently going to pull on us, they will lucky to exist as a going concern after the elections this year

[mrsmith]

Final results:

•Republican John Cooper: 4,314 (57.21%)

•Democrat Steve Rockwell: 3,227 votes (42.79%)

[Bullish]

And even if they do win they’ll want to go back into ‘power sharing’ mode and let liberals shit all over them again.

[MrEdd]

I expect the GOPe to try, and for their candidates to begin losing primaries.

[RIghtwardHo]

While this is nice, special elections are a bell-weather for absolutely nothing.

[nathanbedford]

Even if the Republicans prevail and take a majority in the Senate, how much will it matter? If speaker Boehner and newly elected Majority Leader McConnell are running the Congress in the shadow of Barack Obama's veto pen, what will they do that differs from what they did when they had majorities under George Bush?

Mark Levin is the one who is making this point consistently, the Republicans have not even written a bill repealing Obamacare. The Republican elites are preparing not to repeal it but to shape it. The same elites are going to pass amnesty to appease the Chamber of Commerce and collect their campaign contributions. They have just passed a $1 trillion budget gimmick and they justify every pusillanimous surrender openly as the only way they can avoid a government shutdown.

Is there any bright and shining historic stand that these people have taken which gives us genuine hope that they will actually change the headlong course the country is taking toward tyranny and disaster?

[Yogafist]

Of course they will, its called amnesty.

[Excellence]

Health insurance lobbyists own both parties.

[Zhang Fei]

25% black and Hispanic district:

http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_State_Senate_District_21

Assuming all ethnicities voted in proportion, and blacks and Hispanics voted 100% for the Dem, Cooper got 2/3 of the white vote. Not ideal, but good enough for a win.

[bmwcyle]

I wonder who the NSA is studying this week? /sarcasm

[usconservative]

I expect the Republicans to somehow throw it all away between now and November.

I wouldn't take that on a bet myself. The Republican party has an uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory time, after time, after time.

That's why they're referred to as the STUPID Party in my house.

(Alternatively, the Democrats are the EVIL Party.)