2014 Election Megathread

[Grey Fox]

I guess the fact this congress & the next one are not going to achieve anything is now totally 100%.

[CountDeMoney]

Ted Cruz is already hinting at impeachment.  Yay for America.

The Republicans are not going to be fooled by Ted Cruz's act again....well ok not so soon anyway.

Sure they will, especially when the vote him as majority speaker.  Obama may be Cruz's #1 target, but Mitch's private bathroom is in his sights at the moment.

[CountDeMoney]

I guess the fact this congress & the next one are not going to achieve anything is now totally 100%.

Think it's fun now, wait until Barbara Boxer has to hand the chairmanship of the Environment Committee over to the Senate's biggest EPA hater, fossil fuel industry puppet and author of The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.

I suspect President Obama's last 2 years will be filled with veto busy work, doing stuff like killing spending bills with "Personhood Amendments" attached.

[Grey Fox]

Obama's last 2 years & the first 4 years of Clinton/Clooney/Donkey president of 2016.

[CountDeMoney]

These particular Republicans don't care about the future, not even of their own party.  There will not be a single Senate confirmation of anybody:  no judges, no ambassadors, on executive branch leadership, nobody.  They need to lynch the negro now, now, now and make him pay for his uppityness.

[alfred russel]

I guess the fact this congress & the next one are not going to achieve anything is now totally 100%.

This is not true. The current Congress can't achieve anything because the House wants to do Republican things, and the Senate wants to do Democrat things. So they never want to do the same thing, and nothing gets done.

Assuming the republicans win, both the House and Senate will want to do Republican things. So they will do Republican things. Those things will then be vetoed by the president.

GF may be right after all. 

[11B4V]

Seedy your shrillness has reached new heights.

[11B4V]

The Daily Show will be epic, not to mention Chris Mathews.

[CountDeMoney]

Seedy your shrillness has reached new heights.

The GOP that we once knew keeps getting more and more distant in the rear view mirror, man.  It's an embarrassment.

[derspiess]

We voted.

Looking for an Ohio GOP sweep

[11B4V]

Seedy your shrillness has reached new heights.

The GOP that we once knew keeps getting more and more distant in the rear view mirror, man.  It's an embarrassment.

This I will agree with. But, what is the cause for the Dems to take a big hit like this? Are they just as disconnected?

[frunk]

This I will agree with. But, what is the cause for the Dems to take a big hit like this? Are they just as disconnected?

It would be unusual if the Dems held on.  It's the pattern that elections during a second term president swing to the other party.

[Jacob]

Seedy your shrillness has reached new heights.

The GOP that we once knew keeps getting more and more distant in the rear view mirror, man.  It's an embarrassment.

This I will agree with. But, what is the cause for the Dems to take a big hit like this? Are they just as disconnected?

From what little I've read, the cause is that this time around the demographics in the seats being contested favour the GOP. 2016 looks to be the Democrats' year by the same metrics.

Don't know if it's true, but that's what I've heard said.

[Eddie Teach]

This year will be dangerous for Democrats in swing states who rode Obama's coat tails in 2008. 2016 will be dangerous for Republicans in swing states who won due to Obamacare backlash. But they can be saved by a strong Presidential candidate.

[derspiess]

Seedy your shrillness has reached new heights.

The GOP that we once knew keeps getting more and more distant in the rear view mirror, man.  It's an embarrassment.

This I will agree with. But, what is the cause for the Dems to take a big hit like this? Are they just as disconnected?

Obamacare and Obama.  Neither are particularly popular right now.