Your simplistic bifurcation of "the right" and "the left" exposes your monolithic mindset. If you're enjoying Turdblossom's War with the TPs, well, so am I. If Repubs, with their 21% approval/72% disapproval from the American people should control both chambers from 2014-2016, the mayhem between the corporate flunkies, TP berserkers, and evangatolla bible humpers should provide quite the tawdry spectacle!
He wouldn't have blocked them if they were good bills. Most of 'em were way out in leftfield someplace and designed only to get the senate to block them. Btw, a current ABC/Washington Post poll shows that 72% of Americans disapprove of the House Republicans. That's horrendous.
What a biased crock! Reid has been lockstep with what The Kenyan wanted! There were many good bills! Geeez!
They may have been good bills where you come from but, by and large, they STUNK and were deserving on nobody's time.
So we are now moving from 'the GOP has not offered a plan', to 'the plans they offered were not to our approval' Progress
The plans were not intended for anybody's approval except the base back home. So they were a combination of "no plan" and "not to our approval." Say, why don't your boys offer up a plan to cut Medicare off at 75?
But what was the lefts existing plan...it was sold to the left and voted on by the left alone. That does not make it 'no plan', just a crappy plan.
Senate, the Republicans pick up Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia which is a gain of six seats. But Kansas goes to the independent Orman who will caucus and vote with the Democrats leaving the senate 50-50 and still in control of the Democrats with Joe Biden casting the tie breaking votes. The house the GOP will pick up between 5-10 seats.
2014 U.S. Senate Scoreboard (9/21/14) According to this blog, here's the latest. Kansas Democrats pull a stealth switcheroo, and now GOP incumbent Pat Roberts has fallen behind. Meanwhile, Scott Brown closes slightly on Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire. And, as it points out, with Karl Rove leading the way, the Dimbocraps just might keep their majority. Read more @ http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/09/2014-us-senate-scoreboard-92114.html
The Marxist majority in the Senate remains, Reid continues to stop legislation and the country continues to slide into irrelevance and the 3rd world. Oh and Obama gets to select more crappy judges....
Another bold prediction....The Colorado state house changes hands. When state polling shifted from registered voters to likely voters, the results went from a tie to a solid win for the republicans....Not much time let for that to change though I am only speaking f a few current polls,
I think the Democrat prime campaign strategy of "Don't vote for them because they are so bad" may not work this time. They've controlled the government for 8 years and can't see where the Democrats have helped only kept them in government subsistence.
2014 Mid-Terms Okay, so it's a conservative site but the predictions and commentary is worth reading. More @ http://adayattheracesblog.com/2014/09/22/6-weeks-to-go-6-things-to-watch/
Everyone should walk softly with their predictions with the recent history of polling on both sides. Harder to get a cross section of voters these days with cell phone and internet communications, people don't want to be bothered with them, even giving false answers that have to be weeded out.
What happens is that liberal establishment Republicans lose. The nation is already doomed assuming we continue to vote for our enemies.
Whilst some folks are in a perpetual snit over the imaginary "Liberals!" that fester in their noggins, one curious "real world" finding is that Repubs are pissy about their own politicians. The spectacle of the GOP's corporate toadies, TP wacko birds, and theocratic evangelatollahs ravaging one another in the 114th Congress can only contribute further to the public disenchantment with the once-respectable "Party of Lincoln," that currently boasts a 19% approval/70% disapproval level of public confidence. For Democrats and Independents with a penchant for Schadenfreude, and those who just enjoy internecine mayhem, it'll be fun to watch!
Generic polls don't matter so much as polls for actual candidates in various districts and states. People tend to love their congressman but hate the Congress, for example. I think Republicans will maintain control of the House, and make up ground on the Senate. I think it will be closer to a 50-50 split, with either party just barely holding a Senate majority.
Unless Obama goes above 50% by 1 Nov, I do not see how the dems keep the senate and I still figure 5-10 new seats in the house...
If the voters vote Republicans back into power, they deserve to get screwed. Didn't learn anything when Bush was President and how we were losing 750K jobs everyday to foreign countries. Also it seems like the House of Representatives with a 6% approval rating would all be voted out. They absolutely have done nothing to help this country from coming out of the recession that President Bush put us in. The Koch brothers are spending billions on Republicans to get control of the senate, but it would be a big set back for this country to go Republican just when the country is doing so good. Jobs are back, industry is coming back. Unemployment is down to 6.8 percent. I do not believe the Latino's and Black will support the Republicans. They know what the party stands for. All I say is remember how Bush left this country when he left office. Obama had a mess and has pulled this country from going into a depression.
