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This seems not optimistic to me, but realistic, given current trends. We'll see.
1 posted on 04/11/2010 4:59:53 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

Let’s go for 100. There are at least that many incumbents that should be fired in this Worst Congress Ever.


2 posted on 04/11/2010 5:02:13 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

Tom Price is a good man. Pete Sessions, on the other hand, is an idiot.


3 posted on 04/11/2010 5:02:18 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

But Steele said a few months ago that we can’t win.


4 posted on 04/11/2010 5:02:59 PM PDT by byteback
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
They can't slack off any. They need to keep fighting hard to make or better that number; with Rock of Gibraltar Solid Conservatives.
5 posted on 04/11/2010 5:03:14 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

yeah... but are there enough senate seats up for grabs to get the senate too?


6 posted on 04/11/2010 5:05:20 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

If anyone can screw a good thing up, its senate pubbies!! Watch out for Grahamesty, Lugar, the Maine looney ladies, etc. to screw this up!


10 posted on 04/11/2010 5:20:38 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (November can't come soon enough!)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

Doesn’t mean squat unless they have an established agenda for specific changes and enough votes in the Senate. Newt gave us the Contract for America. I sat glued to CSPAN watching the House vote in the changes on property rights protections. Then the legislation simply died in the Senate. With Obama in the White House, they will also need enough votes to over-ride a veto. The best they can probably do until 2012 is neuter the progressive’s agenda in Congress, although Obama will push the envelope on implementing his plans through the federal agencies.


11 posted on 04/11/2010 5:24:39 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

You don’t have 56 seats. Wishful thinking.

You may get 40 but 56 is daydreaming. Hope you do and hope they are real R’s.


13 posted on 04/11/2010 5:27:36 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

The Democrats deserve to lose 150 seats. only the hard-core govt dependocrats should be even thinking of supporting them.

But we need to not just stop at Congress. In races for Statehouse, Governors, Mayors ... dogcatchers ...
Anyone with a “D” needs to be radioactive and swept from office.

This will take time, effort and money. Save America - Defeat All Democrats.


18 posted on 04/11/2010 5:44:48 PM PDT by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

I sure hope Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-#1) goes down in flames. What a disaster she’s been.


23 posted on 04/11/2010 5:55:27 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
Check Key House Races for a list of competitive House seats in 2010.
25 posted on 04/11/2010 6:21:24 PM PDT by randita (Sarah Palin has the same computer that I have.)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
Would prefer NO Predictions!

Expect anything; and be prepared for it. Count on Repub Victory; but keep the rhetoric 'down'. . .in this case; think saying nothing is more powerful.

27 posted on 04/11/2010 6:38:12 PM PDT by cricket (We cannot allow t he 'man who would be king' to be one!)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

As always, winning isn’t enough. We need more than “Throw the bums out!” as a scheme.

We need to put alternatives in place that take care of the concerns of the public, but do not lead us down the path of governmental control.

There must be a vision to follow.

Our choice: Do we avoid pain? or do we approach pleasure?

In politics, running from pain will only lead us to more pain. We must have the pleasure of a workable policy, written down for the people to see, i sufficient time for them to debate it for real, instead of the vague discussion of the penumbras eminating from “The One’s” Head.


28 posted on 04/11/2010 6:42:22 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Forgiven_Sinner; All

Seems to be inline with Nate Silver’s (Dem) predictions at FiveThirtyEight.com. He’s predicting that Dems could lose 50+ seats in the House, maybe even as many as 79!

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/generic-ballot-points-toward-possible.html


29 posted on 04/11/2010 7:25:49 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (LOLcat sez: "ObamaCare: Do Not Want!")
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
I predict the Republicans will get their asses handed to them on a platter in November 2010 and we will head even more rapidly into irretractable Marxism-Leninism as an economi nation and as a social system.

Provided:

a) they stay RINO and run as me-too, polite Moderates; and b) take the attitude such as in this article that they are going to "predict" (sic) a "gain" (sic) of "56" (sic) seats. This is all up to GOD, and comes down to our resolve and humbleness, and also hours and hours of shoe leather being worn out by troops on the ground, many of them by average people NEVER BEFORE involved in precinct politics before, coming in from the masses of the Tea Party and under a drafted Compact by the NEW Republican Party that commits it to killing once and for all "Compasssionate Conservatism", and returning to Ronald Reagan and TRUE CONSERVATISM.

Seven months is a long, long way way, and the Democrats are going to CREAM US at the POLLS if these warnings are not heeded and this self-assured, arrogant, boastful, pride-filled, overassured smug talk continues. We had better run like we are in for a whipping by Obama even worse than he gave us in 2008.


30 posted on 04/11/2010 8:28:16 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (2012 Prediction! Pres. Biden vs. Fmr. SOS Clinton....with Fmr. Pres. Obama still in mental rehab)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

It all depends on the laziness of the obamatrons. This next election, there should be fewer of these losers voting, so there is a chance to take a good many seats, but again, pie in the sky for 40-60 seats.


32 posted on 04/11/2010 9:40:33 PM PDT by SgtHooper
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

From his lips to God’s ears.


33 posted on 04/11/2010 10:44:57 PM PDT by no dems (Palin / Rubio 2012)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

It’s much better to yell about gaining 100 seats than to whisper about “maybe gaining 25 - if that’s okay with you mister media.”


36 posted on 04/12/2010 5:31:44 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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