In Senate, GOP Braces For Cold November

[babylonsister]

In Senate, GOP Braces For Cold November
Republicans are in such perilous shape heading toward Election Day that they argue a four-seat loss would count as a "moral victory."

by Jennifer E. Duffy

Sat. Aug 2, 2008


Republicans might as well kiss their Virginia seat goodbye. Two others are in almost as much danger. Overall, only 11 of the 23 GOP seats up for grabs this year are truly safe. Democrats, meanwhile, have only one "vulnerable" seat among their 12 on the line in November.

Buoyed by a political climate even more hospitable than the one in which they gained six seats in 2006, Senate Democrats can barely contain their glee at the prospect of expanding their razor-thin majority by five to seven seats.

Senate Republican leaders no longer even try to argue that the Democrats' one-seat majority is in jeopardy or to play down predictions like that of Democratic

Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer, who boasts that his party will pick up "a whole bunch of seats." Instead, Republicans characterize a four-seat Democratic gain as a "moral victory" for their party. They are focused on holding down their losses and protecting their incumbents.

How did this year's Senate playing field become one of the most lopsided in recent memory? A quartet of important factors--political climate, math, money, and retirements--are all working against the GOP this time.

By any number of measures, the national political climate is extremely hostile to the Republican Party. By a wide margin, voters believe that the country is seriously on the wrong track. And they are not optimistic that the economy will soon improve. Democrats now hold a 13.5-point advantage over the GOP in party identification, according to the cumulative results of Gallup surveys taken in the first six months of this year. Including voters who called themselves independents yet lean toward one party or the other, 52.7 percent of respondents identify themselves as Democrats and 39.2 percent say they are Republicans. Four years ago, the Democrats' ID advantage was just 2.7 points.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20080802_9590.php

[whistle]

1. No more republicans... no more republicans... no more republicans,

[ColbertWatcher]

3. (My signature!)

[Xipe Totec]

2. a four-seat Democratic gain would be a "moran victory" for the Gophers nt

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. A growing 8-year major clinical depression...

Would lift immediately from me if they got slaughtered in November. That said, I dare not get my hopes up. I did in 2004 and it about destroyed me.

I hope it's so cold their asses freeze and break off. No greater threat has faced this nation, in my lifetime, than the repukes in general and southern repukes, those used car salemen and village idiots to a man or woman, in particular.

[babylonsister]

6. I hope their asses break off, too!

:rofl:


Hey, is this you? I saw that second article today and thought of you; and then there's this!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheisskopf

Scheisskopf is always too busy planning parades to fulfill his wife’s masochistic sexual fantasies and replies to her requests, ”Don’t you know there’s a parade going on?” Instead, she sleeps with Scheisskopf's cadets, so they can all get revenge on her husband, and so can she for some “unforgettable crime she couldn’t recall.” Mrs Scheisskopf is well read and has a Maths major, but can not count to twenty eight without getting into trouble every month.



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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Well, the name has a long history.

Comes from Blue Oyster Cult, their pyro tech named "Shithead" and fictitious character a friend of the family invented: Tandalayo Schwartzkopf.

Now you know too much and I will have to give you Death by Noogies. ;-)

[spanone]

5. i believe the routing of republicans will be much greater than the media leads on

people are pissed

people KNOW these fuckers have been in control for the last 8 years

people KNOW the economy has gone to shit

people KNOW they are putting their paychecks in their gas tanks

people KNOW iraq is a shithole and a death sentence for our youth

i believe people KNOW

[C_U_L8R]

7. what's cooler than cool?

Ice cold !

You think you've got it
Ohh, you think you've got it
But got it just don't get it
Til' there's nothing at all.

[bigmoon]

8. Keep pushing drilling and they will lose all their seats

They're so stupid they think that is their big issue

:crazy:

[Trajan]

9. I dont believe it ...

Expect the worst .... WORK for the best ....

[babylonsister]

10. I do; I've been reading this for months. They are so screwn. nt