Posted on 03/12/2014 3:28:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The latest WSJ/NBC poll tells us that the overall electoral environment for Democrats is worse than it was in 2010 when Republicans had their best midterm performance since Harry Truman was president:
-- The president hit a new low for job approval in the poll of 41 percent, 7 points below where it was at this point in 2010. Respondents’ esteem for President Obama’s handling of the economy and of foreign policy are both markedly worse than four years ago.
-- Among registered voters, Republicans held a 1 point advantage on the generic congressional ballot, 4 points better than at this point in 2010.
-- The overall approval of ObamaCare among all adults – 49 percent saying the law was a bad idea and 36 percent saying it was a good idea – is identical to four years ago when it passed in March 2010.
SINK, SANK, SUNK
Whatever they say in public, Democrats know that the defeat of their candidate, Alex Sink, in Tuesday’s special election in Pinellas County, Fla. is a very bad omen. If they cannot win in districts like these – won twice by President Obama – and with well-funded, well known candidates like Sink, there’s little reason to believe much of the palaver about Democratic strategies for blunting Republican advances this fall. Outspent, hampered by a Libertarian candidate and with some nagging party divisions lingering on Election Day, David Jolly carried the special election to replace the late Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla. The race provided a revealing snapshot of voter attitudes about ObamaCare and the motivation of the Republican base. There’s a long time to go until November and Democrats have just begun to spend their massive war chest, but the shape of things looks bad for the blue team’s chances to hold the Senate....
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I see a few being very likely.
Sasse, Brannon, Shannon, and McDaniel. Others will be harder
The main difference is that the Republicans had issue to campaign on in 2010. This year, they have given up on every issue. They won’t even do anything about ACA.
Enough, I hope, to help the fence-sitters grow a spine. Safety in numbers for our herd of "leaders".
I don’t know about the mid-term elections but I say a bumper sticker that said ‘Hillary’ and she’s not running yet. After seeing that I thought I would make my own bumper sicker that would say ‘No Hitlery, but I would probably get a rock thrown through my windshield.
Sure they will, they’ll make it permanent just like they did Social Security, welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, the minimum wage, the EPA, OSHA, affirmative action, and on and on.
Nor will they do anything serious to rein in 0bama's unconstitutional power grab. They will, instead, focus on making amnesty a reality. I'm done with the GOPe.
the GOP strategery seems to be
“set back, and hope the pendulum just naturally swings back far enough to get some of us elected”
If you can't stand the climate change, get out of the kitchen.
Sad.
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