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Party operatives agree that an election conducted on disputes over the deficit, health care legislation, the stimulus, the bank bailout, and/or climate change will work to the disadvantage of Democrats.
You can throw terrorism and war into that mix too. So their answer to all this?
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Among the techniques to achieve this goal are floating negative stories in the press, taking full advantage of sympathetic bloggers to create a hostile portrait of the GOP opponent, and actively using "less visible" means of communication such as phone banks, direct mail, and canvassers.
Talk about tired old crash and burn strategy.. They better find God, they're gonna need him.
As stated in the other thread, this was all done by one pollster. Other pollsters show a different story. Also as it related to Dodd being out, Blumenthal is now in. Its safe Dem. This little Rasmussen polling and silly Washington Times article have also included match ups against candidates who have given no indication of actually running (Pataki)
This basically comes out to a wash. Previously the GOP had a decent chance at picking up CT & the Dems had a decent chance at holding ND. Now the Dems have a decent chance of holding CT & the GOP has a decent chance of picking up ND.
While you are technically correct, i'd like to remind you that this still equates to a minimum of one additional seat that Dems will have to pick up if they are to retain the majority.
Seems like a pretty ripe time for a third party to make its entrance. I doubt it'll happen of course. We will play the red-tag blue-tag you're it game.
While you are technically correct, i'd like to remind you that this still equates to a minimum of one additional seat that Dems will have to pick up if they are to retain the majority.
There's no way that's going to happen. People are tired of them blaming the "other" party. They took over in 2006-2008. They took a super majority in 2009. The last thing anyone will fall for is it's all the other people's fault. Incumbents have hard enough time keeping their seats and them having no ground to stand on isn't going to go well for them. The best they can do is start blaming each other for what's going on now.
While you are technically correct, i'd like to remind you that this still equates to a minimum of one additional seat that Dems will have to pick up if they are to retain the majority.
It is still a wash. The GOP still needs 11 seats to regain the majority. If anything the Dems come out slightly ahead here. Dorgan's retirement no question helps the GOP and makes it a much easier pick up for them, but it isn't certain. CT looked like a pick up for the GOP, now with the extremely popular AG Blumenthal running they don't have a chance in hell.
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