Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama’s slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year’s congressional races and may even threaten their House control.
Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in 2006 and 2008, helping the party claim a decisive majority as voters soured on a Republican president and embraced Obama’s message of hope and change. Many of the new Democrats are in districts carried by Republican John McCain in last year’s presidential contest; others are in traditional swing districts that have proved tough for either party to hold.
From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama’s $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.
#59 One party control is bad…unless there were term limits…to restore the founding Father’s idea of citizen rule…these professional politicians have bankrupted the country and sold it to corporations and any special interest that pays…
Real term limits…then if a particular party had control…it would still be representative of the people.
Alfred….as mentioned elsewhere if you remove the corporate purchasing of congressmen the need for term limits decreases. You don’t treat ebola with a tube of ointment.
#55 – That’s why Paul failed so miserably in the 2008 election, right? He’s been running for years and has never gotten anywhere, that’s because the vast majority of American voters, even when he runs in a major party, don’t agree with his platform.
That’s not changing any time soon.
I think that the ones who don’t pass the Corporate Welfare programs stand a better chance of getting in next year.
Republicans have historically been for Corporate Welfare, and Democrats, on occasion as well.
The Democratic Party has strong leadership now, unlike the Republican Party, who only has the likes of Joe the (unemployed)(not really a)Plumber, and Sarah (I quit) Palin.
It really depends on the economy. If it gets better, you will see people voting for their best interests, and more Democrats will get elected. If things get worse, people will once again vote for people who say that government can do no good. (Personally, I don’t know why anyone would vote for someone who said that the government can do no good. Why would I vote for someone to prove this, rather than someone who knows that the government can do some good, and have people who want to make things that government does better.)
Obviously this isn’t about putting the Republicans back in power. This is about having one party in power. It was bad when it was the Republicans, it’s bad now that it’s the Democrats. I’m all for a split government that has to compromise to get anything done.
My fairly liberal co-worker said it best. “America is at it’s best when we have a Democrat in the White House, and a Republican Congress. The president won’t go to war, and the Congress won’t spend any money.”
Sure. We’ll see how far a Palin/Limbaugh or Beck/Gingrich or that weird Indian version of Mr Rogers guy will go.
I’m actually OK, as long as they drop the Christian Taliban albatross the party seemingly wants to hang on to.
#63 Perhaps in the past he seemed extreme…now he seems like a prophet…
As a member of the “silent majority,” I might have liked him, but would have voted for the Republican candidate…even a McCain whose cap * trade folly is well known.
But no longer…Paul’s the man, so is Palin…anyone who shows by their actions they are against statism…they will reduce government and restore the constitution’s authority over Congress.
Both Palin and Paul have proven themselves honorable, true to their word…walking the walk, not just talking the talk.
#63 Another reason Paul has a better shot…the left’s smearing the right as racist…the Democratic playbook…doesn’t work anymore…the public has been hit with it once too often…especially when it was used against them at town halls..
The British press says millions were at the march in Washington, more than at Obama’s inauguration…
Our press, in the tank for Obama, won’t reveal that.
One protester’s sign said “it don’t matter what this sign says…the press will call it racist!”
I recall the smear machine, moveon.org etc, linked Paul with some far right group…the public will see through that ad hominem this time.
“… On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
#62 I once was ambivalent about term limits…there is something to be said for experience…
I’d rather suffer the incompetence/inefficiency in getting bills passed, than the efficiency of tyrants to sell us out.
Citizen rule requires citizens rule, not professional politicians whose self interest is in pleasing special interests…those who will keep them in power.
Term limits, severe term limits, guarantees citizen rule…and if a politician is truly loved…he can come back after skipping a term.
#52, What part of the lesser of two evils
do people not understand?
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
RON PAUL
#63 – ’tis true, he has not gotten the support he needed when he ran for President in the past. Let’s face it, when times are good the average American sticks with the status quo and picks one of the two parties, thereby perpetuating the problem until we hit a serious economic lapse, the likes of which we are currently in the throes of.
I think Paul is gaining momentum now. Will it be enough? Time will tell. I support his platform primarily on the basis of economic and foreign policies. Not everyone agrees. I think we can all agree that “more of the same” isn’t helping us now, nor will it beyond 2012.
#51 Oh, poor boy. Only now you’ve noticed that I’ve been calling you asleep? I’ve been calling you like that because frankly, you make absolutely no sense. If you really were awake, you would have never written half of the silly stuff you’ve.
So please, wake-up already.
Now, If you think that got me with that… don’t know what to call that really, it takes a little bit more than that, not to mention a more intelligent, awake person to pull it off.
While you’re at it, learn something from #54. That was orders of magnitude better than your rant.
#57 This one was quite rich. As if we needed more proof that you’re asleep, you called Bobbo a repug. Wake-up already, will you? Sleep walkers like you always hit a wall .
#71–Loser==”The lesser of two evils is still evil.
RON PAUL” /// Demonstrating exactly what? In context, that he misses the point completely. All subtlety is past him. That happens when you stop thinking and start spouting DOGMA!!!
#72–Carcarius==”I think Paul is gaining momentum now.” /// Yea, just like Ralph Nader is. Fantasy Politics: Nader vs Paul. Who would win, whats the spread?
#73–Pedro==thank you for noticing I’m a raving liberdrool. But you know, say one thing conservative sounding, or as in my case, mock a conservative, and people think you’ve been sucking dick your whole life. I’d have given you credit for your excellent studies of Chavez but I couldn’t remember your nickname for him, so I skipped it.
The question will be:
For the Democrates they can say:
Do you want to vote for the party that brought you the Wall Street Crash and massive layoffs or the party the rescued the country from BUSHNIK economics (privatize gains but socialized loss)?
For the Republicans they can say:
1.) Do you want to vote for the party that brought you Guantanamo torture chambers, torture, unlawful detentions ….
2.) Do you want to vote for the party that brought you tax breaks for the rich and nothing for the rest of you.
3.) Do you want to vote for the party that brought IRAQ, let Bin Laden escape …..
4.) Do you want to vote for the party that reamed the Patriot Act down you throat based on lies?
#72 You mean Kuzco.
I guess most people on here approve of our current government. How sad.
Bobbo,
All of your thoughts are a theoretical construct.
Love,
DA
#77 Don’t let that mislead you…its not a representative sample…
Vice President Cheney is more popular, according to the polls, than our Congress.
# 79 Alfred1,
Is this another one of your, call a random Tea Party goer poll; plz stop, making me laugh so hard, it hurts.
“Vice President Cheney is more popular, according to the polls, than our Congress.”