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Senate, 2014

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rimrocker, Oct 6, 2014.

  1. justtxyank

    justtxyank Member

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    That may be true, but how dumb do democrats look when they are out there pretending not to support him? Or not wanting to admit to voting for him.

    I mean, lol, did anyone buy that?
     
  2. justtxyank

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    Republicans hold Kansas and Georgia, meaning they need 1 state to take the senate.

    North Carolina and Virginia both in play which is surprising.
     
  3. Major

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    Looking like a clean sweep for the GOP in the competitive races, except for NH. Virginia would be an out-of-nowhere pickup, and Landrieu will get a chance to pull off a miracle in a runoff. GOP doing very well in Governor races as well.

    Oddly, all those same voters are overwhelmingly approving minimum wake hikes in some red states like Arkansas and Nebraska.
     
  4. bigtexxx

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    Tonight's results really put in doubt Obama's judicial nominees...
     
  5. Jayzers_100

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    Arkansas now has two Republican Senators for the first time since the 1870s...shame.
     
  6. justtxyank

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    Iowa and North Carolina officially fall. Republicans control the senate and it looks like it will be 54 votes when Alaska and Louisiana are done.
     
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  7. bigtexxx

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    Mandate.

    Boom.
     
  8. rudan

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    Good, finally the civil war is over!

    Only holdover is miss piggy from Louisiana, she should get kicked out next month.
     
  9. Hustle Town

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    Even Governor Pat Quinn (D) loses in Obama's home state. Wow. Democrats got their asses kicked (pun intended).
     
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    Does this mean that Keystone XL might get approved? What do you guys think?
     
  11. cml750

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    It should be approved.
     
  12. Major

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    Keystone is on hold because of a lawsuit by Nebraska landowners right now. It's gotten lost in the shuffle, but the original opposition to it was on conservative individual rights' grounds, and whether the state had the right to take land using eminent domain to benefit a private company.

    Until that lawsuit is resolved, nothing is happening with Keystone.
     
  13. subtomic

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    Americans get the government they deserve....when the economy tanks again in 2 years because the GOP deregulates everything and decimates the spending power of the middle class in order to enrich the .0001%, I hope all the dumbasses who voted for these reactionary scum (or stayed at home and didn't vote) foot the recovery bill for those of us who weren't #!%*ing morons.

    And I hope Ginsburg realizes that by not retiring last summer, she's just ensured a generation of terrible reactionary judicial decisions as there's no chance in hell that any jurist left of Scalia on his worst day will be approved.

    The democrats prove once again that they're terrified to campaign on their own success and allow the GOP to scare the population into voting against their own interests.
     
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    [​IMG]
     
  15. Bandwagoner

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    you should head over to the democraticunderground.com where they are saying Fox is worse than ISIS.
     
  16. tallanvor

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    what successes have they had? what do you think the democrats should of run on? They tried abortion and it failed miserably.
     
  17. TheresTheDagger

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    Republican's pick up Governors in:

    Massachusetts
    Maryland
    Illinois
    Arkansas

    (all traditional Democrat strongholds)

    and hold in

    Michigan
    Florida
    New Mexico
    Wisconsin
    Ohio
    Iowa
    Colorado (maybe)

    ALL these are Presidential battleground states.
     
  18. val_modus

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    Reduced unemployment from about 10% to 5%
    Wall street has never done better
    Sustained economic growth after 750k jobs lost per month under Bush
    Providing healthcare to millions of Americans (kids stay on parents' plan till 25 years old, no one gets denied on preexisting condition, etc)
    TARP has recovered virtually all of its costs
    More jobs created in 2010 alone than all of Bush's years
    Infrastructure spending reintroduced after years of neglect
    Stem cell research
    Dodd-Frank wall street reform
    food safety legislation not seen since Great Depression
    Repealed "Don't Ask Don't tell"
    Gay marriage legalized in more states
    Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (only 5 Repub senators voted for this)
    Got us out of Iraq
    Closed secret detention facilities
    Tried to close Guantanamo Bay
    Increased funding to VA
    Put an end to Bush-era stop-loss policy
    Increased funding to student financial aid
    GI bill
    FDA reform
    cut taxes on 95% of American working families
    Extended unemployment benefits
    Reversed Bush standard that climate change was a "hoax"

    Cut the crap..
     
  19. TheresTheDagger

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    In the Maryland Gubernatorial race, Anthony Brown lead by double digits in the polls until two weeks ago when Barack and Michelle Obama started showing up at campaign rallies. Instantaneously, his favorability dropped.
     
  20. fchowd0311

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    Nah... It has more to do with majority of Americans being laymen and gullible to "buzzwords" which Republicans are really great at hammering down such as "Benghazi", " ISIS" etc.
     

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