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Former New York mayor Ed Koch predicts that the Democratic party will face a 'tsunami' in the November mid-term elections, in an interview with Israel National Radio's Yishai Fleisher.
Let 'em have their security blanket. It's about all they have at this point.
Mid-terms generally bring some losses to the majority, and you watch - Faux News and the usual suspects on this forum will spin it into the biggest victory in history if they gain a few seats. Because that's never happened before.
In any case, I think they are grossly overestimating. But then they did that during the POTUS election run-up too. And then they thought that Brown winning was some massive defeat. Grasping for straws.
Let 'em have their security blanket. It's about all they have at this point.
Mid-terms generally bring some losses to the majority, and you watch - Faux News and the usual suspects on this forum will spin it into the biggest victory in history if they gain a few seats. Because that's never happened before.
In any case, I think they are grossly overestimating. But then they did that during the POTUS election run-up too. And then they thought that Brown winning was some massive defeat. Grasping for straws.
It's not pro-GOP, or even anti-Democrat, but anti-incumbent. If things start changing and unemployment drops, Democrats' approval ratings will go up and they may only loose a few seats.
However you'll see Wolf Blitzer spinning it into "people hate democrats literally" as he always does.
There are still divisive party primaries for Republicans to get through. Candidates seen now as being credible Republican challengers may seem somewhat less credible after their own party gets through with them. NY-23, and all. And there's the still unknown reassurance factor that comes along if/as the economy continues to move in the strongly positive directions that it has been. The Republicans have literally nothing of their own to campaign on. They haven't contributed anything. If they get boxed in as the Glenn Beck Party of the Empty-Handed while the Democrats run as the party that faced up to challenges and got things done (keep in mind health care benefits will be kicking in by Fall as well), that won't bode well for them. And there's the considerable influence that Obama himself still wields. The hatred for him so frequently shown in C-D threads does not infect most indie voters and indeed makes them worry about the right no less than anyone else. Extremism doesn't often win elections, and the right is a lot futher from the political center than most of them seem to think.
What was once a "safe dem" seat may now be up for grabs.
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