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The Mid-Terms Results Thread [W:517]

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Grim17 said:
You know it's a Republican "Wave" when you hear Andrea Mitchell say it... Which she just did on the NBC's live internet broadcast as they pronounced Hagen's defeat in N.C.
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Rachel Maddow said it too. Can't wait to listen to Rush tomorrow.
 
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MMC said:
Michigan Lady P? Rauner has won the Governorship of Illinois. One of the Demos major Strongholds.
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Maryland, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois-are you FREAKIN KIDDING ME? :lol:
 
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NIMBY said:
Tell me who threatened the nuclear option before Frist/McConnell last decade.
I'm tired of being nice about this lying from people who deny they are Republicans.
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No on cares about last decade, it has no baring on what is going on today. Democrats won in a wave in 08 and decided to push their agenda without a single Republican vote on Obamacare (which they won with a mandate so I don't blame them for doing it). Then after Republicans took the House, that's when gridlock began again. Let's face it, the reason nothing is getting passed today isn't because McConnell, up until tonight he was the MINORITY LEADER. If Reid wanted, he could of worked with Boehner to get stuff done. Instead, both side passed meaningless legislation to die on the other one's floor. Well now one party controls all of congress, and I hope that whether it's Boehner or McConnell (or really someone else... I know it's not likely, but I wish we could have a new Majority leader, someone new and fresh) that can work directly with Obama.
 
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Grim17 said:
Thank God... He is one of the most slimey politicians of our time.
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:agree: I missed that one somehow! It just gets better and better!
 
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poweRob said:
I'm curious to see how accurate Nate Silver was again.
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Not all, the purple states were kinda on. VA was a catastrophe.
 
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Hamster Buddha said:
Oh hey how did the Wine thing go? My wife wants to know...
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Not sure on that. Hopefully it will be allowed in grocery stores. I don't drink but that is one of the dumber laws around
 
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X Factor said:
Rachel Maddow said it too. Can't wait to listen to Rush tomorrow.
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I haven't listened to Rush for months, but I think I'll be tuning in also to hear what he has to say about it.
 
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Zyphlin said:
Welp, that didn't take long...

Ted Cruz just stated he thinks the same method of passing Obamacare (reconciliation) should be used to vote for repeal of Obamacare. He recognizes it'll likely be vetoed, but it was one of the top 2 or 3 issues that got republicans elected this time out and he feels it's their duty to at least make every attempt to repeal it.
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I happen to agree with him. The exit polls clearly showed Obamacare to be something that is of most concern to the voters. Let them use the process the Democrats used to pass the thing, to overturn it. Take it to Obama's desk and let him veto it. Then come back to the Senate and start dissecting it apart piece by piece on the parts they can, some which they have bipartisan support and take them to Obama's desk. No longer will Congress be the party of "No", if legislation doesn't move, it rests on Obama's head.
 
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Hamster Buddha said:
No on cares about last decade, it has no baring on what is going on today. Democrats won in a wave in 08 and decided to push their agenda without a single Republican vote on Obamacare (which they won with a mandate so I don't blame them for doing it). Then after Republicans took the House, that's when gridlock began again. Let's face it, the reason nothing is getting passed today isn't because McConnell, up until tonight he was the MINORITY LEADER. If Reid wanted, he could of worked with Boehner to get stuff done. Instead, both side passed meaningless legislation to die on the other one's floor. Well now one party controls all of congress, and I hope that whether it's Boehner or McConnell (or really someone else... I know it's not likely, but I wish we could have a new Majority leader, someone new and fresh) that can work directly with Obama.
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This could actually be a good thing for Obama, as it was for Clinton...having to play ball.
 
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Perotista said:
You saying the one who threatens to nuke but doesn't is worst than the one who threatens and drops the nuke.
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Heya Pero :2wave: .....How did I do with that Senate and the Pollsters I was using? ;)
 
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US Conservative said:
This could actually be a good thing for Obama, as it was for Clinton...having to play ball.
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But Clinton had to play ball because he was up for reelection 2 years after.
 
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Anagram said:
Perhaps. Jack Conway has already declared and he is a strong candidate. Still, other states like that, Republican nationally and Democrat locally, have become more and more Republican locally. Many Southern states have just recently elected their first Republican legislatures since Reconstruction.
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We'll see but I doubt Republicans will be in as strong a position a year from now when the election is held, I'll believe it when I see it. In my adult life, despite us electing GWB twice and hell I think we voted for Romney by like 20 points, we still still end up voting democrat for governor. Kentucky is just weird...
 
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US Conservative said:
True dat. But Obama has a "legacy" to think of as well...besides being the worst and most Nixonian POTUS in history.
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wut?

most nixonian president? what does that even mean? More than Nixonian than Nixon? ANd what do you mean by Nixonian?
 
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NIMBY said:
What difference does it make?
Thurmond was a Democrat before he switched--so was current Senator Shelby .
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I hate em all. Anytime you switch, it's just so blatantly a power grab and complete lack of convictions. Like that guy who flipped from dem to rep last go around and lost in the primaries, I say good riddance to him. Put it another way, I'd rather lose to a Dem that I at least knew where they stood on issues, then have a Rep up there that I'd have to keep watching to stab me in the back.
 
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US Conservative said:
True dat. But Obama has a "legacy" to think of as well...besides being the worst and most Nixonian POTUS in history.
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Here's his legacy:

Barack Milhous Hussein O'Carter
 
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Governorships won by Republicans in Maryland, Illinois, Michigan.......? Wow.
 
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Wow, GOP is having a great night for Statehouses. Saying MD and CT are leaning their way too. Crazy.
 
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MMC said:
Michigan Lady P? Rauner has won the Governorship of Illinois. One of the Demos major Strongholds.
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I know - I am thoroughly embarrassed to have made that error! I was so elated that the Republicans will control the Senate, I screwed up! I missed that Crist has conceded too - that's what happens when you get phone calls from excited children! What an exciting night this has been! Wow!
 
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US Conservative said:
This could actually be a good thing for Obama, as it was for Clinton...having to play ball.
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I don't think Obama gives a ****, and really why should he? I mean Clinton was facing a re-election so he had to. Look if Obama was going to play "ball" he would of done it after 2010.
 
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PerfectStorm said:
Tonight was an absolute an utter ass kicking. I remember when some were saying the Republican Party was dead after 2008.
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There's one particular extremely partisan liberal poster on the forum that declared it dead in 2009...you know, before the landslide in 2010 and then the wave this year.

This is why the ridiculous calls that EITHER party is "dead" after these kind of elections is just laughable. It's going to take some time before either party truly really is "Dead" and it'd probably need MULTIPLE ones of these in a row for such to cause a sizable switch to what the second major party is in this country.
 
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