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Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year
Politico Magazine ^ | January 6, 2014 | Professor Larry J. Sabato, UVA

Posted on 01/06/2014 11:29:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 01/06/2014 11:29:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Not if they can help it

They have some kind of mysterious gig going on rove is all too happy to run around defending.


2 posted on 01/06/2014 11:51:33 PM PST by stanne
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Ah! a republican rout... at the polls..

Yeah.. well barring massive voter fraud by legal voters and massive illegal voter fraud.. whether amnestied or not..

You could be right...
then there’s the serious possibility of voting machine virus’s or trojans.. or outright ballot box stuffing...
but I don’t want to be downer...

Hey, very republicans even care about those things..


3 posted on 01/06/2014 11:52:56 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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The Republicans really could have won it all the last time around too.


4 posted on 01/06/2014 11:54:19 PM PST by RC one
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Don't worry. The GOPe will think of some way to screw everything up.
5 posted on 01/07/2014 12:01:08 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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Finally Sabato is beginning to face reality. This is good because he is one of the leading voices of Political Science and Politics/elections in Virginia and on national talk shows.

Also, he’s not a hardcore leftist, but more of a moderate liberal with an honest streak. Wonder how long he will last if he continues to predict Democrat defeats.

This Global Warming we are now experiencing in Virginia (and around the country) is teaching a lot of people what kind of bullshit some of the “climate change” scientists have been preaching, including Michael Mann, now at the Un. of Virginia.

Gasoline prices have risen again and this hurts when you are trying to pay heating bills.

ObamaDoesn’tCare failures, impending “taxes” (fines) and the loss of millions of insurance policies held by “you can keep you policies if you want to” voters esp Democrats, and ridiculously high deductibles, and high unemployment have made “believers” out of some of the “true believers”.

Whether this will still be on the minds of the mindless “low education voters” in the Fall remains to be seen, but even some of those “Stuck on Stupid” are now beginning to become “unstuck”, and they vote.

Obama’s 57th State winter vacation taken while parts of paid-in-American blood Iraqi cities fell to Al Qaeda is now even on the front pages of the Wash. Post. Well golly gee whitakers, even the marxists are taking notice of the Messiah’s failures.

One problem: John Kerry promised the Iraqis aid in their fight against Al Qaeda. They should ask the So. Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians of 1973-75 just how good a promise that is (ask those who survived).

Ben Ghazi. The dagger in the heart of Comrade Hillary, backstabbing bastard John “f***king Kerry, Comrade King Obama, and the cowards of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

I hope that some congressmen and women have the balls to drive that dagger in so deep the the Benghazi Four rise from their graves and shout “Hoorah”.

One thing that Customs/ICE and TSA could have done last week that would really shown that they are on the ball would have been to demand to see Obama’s Hawaiian Birth certificate before he could come back into the US.

Wouldn’t that have been a bitch!

Oops, he’s married to one. Sorry!


6 posted on 01/07/2014 12:06:58 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The Republicans are seriously getting close to losing my votes forever.

I’ve never voted for a democrat and I never will, but if pubbies are going to act like secret democrats with an (R) by their names I guess I’ll just have to stay home and watch the destruction of my country from a distance.

This is a position I never thought I’d take but I’m sick to death of being betrayed by a bunch of lying sacks of shit.


7 posted on 01/07/2014 12:09:10 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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The Republican brand needs to be thought of as an electrical appliance, with Tea Party endorsement of a particular candidate as that Underwriters Laboratories logo signifying a level of safety so you can be reasonably assured your house won’t burn down.


8 posted on 01/07/2014 12:24:34 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Sabato ignores two critical facts.

First, in 2010, Black and Hispanic turnout was very low.

In 2014, Democrats are completely focused on getting those two groups to the polls, especially in certain Red states like Texas, where a large Hispanic turnout could knock out several GOP congressmen.

Second, Sabato is basically unaware of the total disgust felt by most Conservatives for the GOP leadership.

Since Obama was re-elected, we have surrendered on ObamaCare, we have surrendered on gay marriage, we have surrendered on the budget, and, before the November election, we will probably surrender on Amnesty.

Sabato does not understand the lesson that was taught in 2012 when 4 million Conservatives stayed home.

That number will go up in 2014, when even more Conservatives will stay home because they have no Conservative candidates to vote for.

My 2014 prediction.....

Republicans have no chance to win the Senate.

Republicans will lose House seats, but will maintain a small majority.

9 posted on 01/07/2014 12:24:44 AM PST by zeestephen
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I don’t trust a thing Sabato says due to the partisan role he played when George Allen ran for governor in Virginia


10 posted on 01/07/2014 12:29:49 AM PST by RginTN
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He supported Allen?


11 posted on 01/07/2014 1:02:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
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No. Sabato helped the Democrat by accusing Allen of saying the N word during college.


12 posted on 01/07/2014 1:11:50 AM PST by RginTN
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To: Bullish
I'm coming to the conclusion that the ĞOPe really are Dems who faked their credentials just to win the election. They haven't a shred of concern for true Republican ideals. Their biggest concern is being accepted by Dems.
13 posted on 01/07/2014 1:23:17 AM PST by NoExpectations
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I'm coming to the conclusion that the ĞOPe really are Dems who faked their credentials just to win the election. They haven't a shred of concern for true Republican ideals. Their biggest concern is being accepted by Dems.
14 posted on 01/07/2014 1:23:18 AM PST by NoExpectations
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A Republican sweep? If the Republicans are Tea Party canidates, I’d say Great. If it is a RINO sweep, I’d say the same old crap is in charge.


15 posted on 01/07/2014 1:40:45 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014 the year of dead RINOs)
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This fills me with about as much excitement as would knowing that the crips are doing much better than the bloods at recruiting teenagers in my town.


16 posted on 01/07/2014 2:10:49 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Having some small say in who gets to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
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Oh no. They will find a way! They can’t hurt the Dems feelings! Besides, who needs the Senate.


17 posted on 01/07/2014 2:11:55 AM PST by jch10 (The Republican Party cannot win without the TEA Party. Too bad only the Democrats know it.)
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Didn’t Sabato think Romney would win?

I WANT to believe.... I really really do !


18 posted on 01/07/2014 2:42:54 AM PST by Baldwin77
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Rigged voting machines equals required Demwit wins.


19 posted on 01/07/2014 4:14:41 AM PST by Old Yeller
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Once again the republicans will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. They have such a great history of doing so, why expect anything different this time.


20 posted on 01/07/2014 4:30:30 AM PST by DaveA37
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