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NY-9 and NV-2 Race Results

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by tallanvor, Sep 13, 2011.

  1. tallanvor

    tallanvor Contributing Member

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    New York -9 would be Weiner/Schumer/Ferraro's old seat (Queens/Brooklyn). Results can be found here

    UPDATE: AP calls it for Bob Turner (GOP).

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    Nevada -2 is a Republican stronghold (Everything not Vegas). Results can be found here

    UPDATE: AP calls it for the GOP guy.

    No need to worry libs. mc mark assures you that Republicans aren't viable. Winning in the bluest congressional district in the country proves this.
     
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    If it were liberal victories, we would have 50 replies by now talking about how Obama would be a guaranteed lock for reelection.
     
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    A lot of lefties on this board are crying themselves to sleep tonight, Ha Ha Ha....how sweet it is!!!
     
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    I don't think anyone believes Obama is a lock, especially with the economic situation. Still. with the complete lack of intelligent Republican candidates, he has a pretty good shot at being re-elected. Sadly, the Republican candidates are a cesspool of misfits and blowhards.
     
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    The enthusiasm for Obama has waned, and now Democrats aren't turning out for him. He clearly has a problem with Jewish voters -- just look at his abysmal approval rating in Israel -- that is starting to crack his Jewish base here, as evidenced by tonight. He also has no credibility on economic matters after causing our economy to go into a double dip, despite benefiting from the most accommodating monetary policy in history under The Bernank. That shows you just how bad his policies have been -- not even 2 years of zero percent interest rates, QE1 and QE2 could camouflage his destructive policies. Sorry but you have to be a total trainwreck to not have a prosperous economy under those monetary policy conditions made possible by the Fed. Just a total disaster and NY's Democrats saw through the flim-flam man's fraud tonight when they went to the polls.
     
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    I think the republicans have a chance if Huntsman or Romney get the nomination. If slick hair, the crazy lady, or 999 pizza man get nominated no chance in hell they can win a national election.
     
  7. tallanvor

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    When it rains on the Democrats, it pours. What a terrible couple of months for them.

    8 points is pretty large. I wonder what the White House will have to say. I would go with: 'How could Brooklyn not want someone with this kind of style?'

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    Esteban shows Mrs Esteban this clip and she was laughing her ass off!

    Carry on........
     
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    Rather amusing, actually.
     
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    I think Obama is a lock vs. the current GOP field.
     
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    Sounds like you hate "lefties"
     
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    Obama is done, and what conventional wisdom dictates is that Romney will likely be swept into power in 2012 along with massive gains in congress.

    We'll have an all conservative congress, President, and judicial system and with that much power, we can expect taxes, sensible regulations, and social programs to be cut significantly. Expect Health care to be gone and financial reform to be overturned too. This may lead to yet another collapse.
     
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    Versus what exactly? I see the rant but where are we headed now with recent jobs reports, uninsured figures, and poverty numbers?
     
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    It takes years and years to recover from what happened in 2007 and 2008. It took a decade to recover from 1929. People want instant results and when they don't get them they want to return to the same things that failed before.

    Stimulus is to prevent things from getting to 20% unemployment. It's to stop the bleeding. It's triage. You have to let the economy recover to a large degree on its own.

    The middle class lost a lot of wealth - and thats the engine of the economy. All that wealth has to be rebuilt. And what you do is keep stimulating the economy until it starts showing life. We almost got there and aren't too far away. 9% unemployment is really bad, but it's not as bad as it was nor as bad as it has been in the past.
     
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    What's ultimately going to happen is that the Republicans are going to be swept into power if current economic contingencies (largely not to blame on the President) such as a double-dip recession based on European sovereign debt will occur.

    However, if the Eurozone resolves its' problems, and the economy upticks, Obama is suddenly the guy who killed Osama, destroyed Al-Qaeda, liberated Libya etc.

    Worst-case scenario---a Perry presidency swept by disjointed rage at factors beyond presidential control, seen as a vindication of Austrian economics, and conservative austerity policies. If that leads to Cameronomics (UK coalition ftl) in the face of the low historical yields on American treasury bonds---disaster. Even worse if the Republicans take it as vindication of a social conservative agenda that threatens science and engineering (the two real drivers of economic growth in the face of demographic declines).
     
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    Prediction today: The 113th Congress will be the most Republican since Reconstruction, with 270+ Republicans in the House, and a majority in the Senate. I expect Obama to outperform Congressional Democrats pretty significantly, maybe enough to win reelection, but then he'll have to decide whether he wants to go along with Republicans for the most part, or veto a lot of legislation.
     
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    and i predict this country continues its rapid downward spiral.
     
  19. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Yup. We've seen what happens when Republicans control all the gov't, they just set up the economy for massive deficits and reckless deregulation.
     
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    Funny stuff. Let's not bother discussing which party would actually stop the spiral - because it wouldn't be either one. I don't believe a second term of Obama will improve anything, though I do believe Perry could very well add to the pile of $#*#.


    Btw it amazes me how extremely left-leaning the D&D section of Clutchfans is, perhaps aided by the fact that the prime right-leaning posters undermine the entire position by being predictable and ineloquent. I feel like right wingers on this forum are just parodies of themselves while the left runs amok with a perception of the moral high ground.
     
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