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Republican takeover of the Senate?

How will you feel about the results of the November elections? What do you think the results will be?

Virtually all the news I come across predict giant losses for Democrats.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/consensus-point...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-midterms-20101...

As a person who believes things based on evidence, I have few reasons to predict a different future. Why are Democrats only speaking up for themselves now, two weeks from the day? As Cenk Uygur once said, they are terrible at the game of politics.

I think the American people will rightfully deserve what it gets in November. If the people want to remain backwards, then let's keep the status quo. Let's keep neglecting our schools and hospitals, and keep scratching our heads when other nations are shooting past us on student test scores and health care. Let's keep giving generous leniencies to the rich.

Sure, the Democrats have major problems delivering "Change", but I don't want to give the Greater Evil an advantage by not voting. I'm going to vote, and I'll be waiting to see if most fellow Americans are as decently sane.

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Permalink Reply by LarryL on October 17, 2010 at 9:44am

I'll vote too, but I think most of American has been so disillusioned by the political process and so apathetic in general that the voter turnout will be far short of what it should be to save the democrat majority.

Yes, the American people just might get what they deserve, but they are taking those of that do care down with them. I'm thinking about jumping ship and swimming to a slightly more sane Canada.

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Permalink Reply by Objection on October 17, 2010 at 10:08am

Well, since I'm contracted to the Army Reserves for 5 more years, I'd go down with the ship. Save me Larry! I shudder at the thought of a Republican president in 2012 @_@
What country is Palin going to go to war with next? Canadia?

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on October 17, 2010 at 5:52pm

Dont worry about Mrs. Palin going to war against Canadia. She would have to locate it first.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on October 17, 2010 at 6:00pm

That and Russia are the two counties she CAN locate.

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Permalink Reply by sk8eycat on October 17, 2010 at 10:13am

I vote by mail, and I sent my ballot in last Friday. It aggravates me that in California the mail-in ballots are counted after all the "live" voters are counted; something wrong with that, I think.

Oregon votes by mail only, and I think they have a higher rate of returns than other states. No sane person wants to drive around looking for a parking place, stand in line waiting to sign in, try to figure out all the judicial candidates that nobody has ever heard of, AND 10 or 20 ballot propositions that are worded so strangely that you need a law degree to figure out what they mean.

I think more people would be inclined to vote if they could mark their ballots at home, and mail them in. So it costs 44 cents...so what? And I think the machines that do the counting would be much more difficult to hack since they aren't connected to the net.

Anyway...If either Mug Wite-Out or Cow Flop Farina get elected in this state, I will seriously consider taking an overdose of my meds. The GOPhers have definitely lost their collective minds, and that rumble you hear is Barry Goldwater....spinning...spinning...spinning.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on October 17, 2010 at 5:55pm

If the Demoscrats lose a significant number of seats, that's their doing for being such weenies. I am Democrat and feel that Republican politics will ruin democracy, but I can't help being disillusioned by the Democrats by squandering an amazing turnaround this past 2 years. They have deservedly earned contempt. I don't know what to do or think.

The American people deserve the politicians that they elect. Only problem for me is I am an American person and I don't think I deserve who the American people elect. That makes me.... conflicted.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on October 17, 2010 at 6:21pm

Take off, nuke the site from orbit.... it's the only way to be sure.

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Permalink Reply by Riomarcos on October 30, 2010 at 12:34am

It's impossible to beat the Republicans without money. All my friends are Democrats, but out of whole bunch of us, I'm the only one that ever donates money to the party. Sitting at home and complaining and even voting doesn't win any elections. Money talks. The media started spreading this meme that the Tea Party is a hit and that the left is disillusioned with Obama and it just caught like wildfire.

I think Obama is doing a bang-up job. He's not a king that can just say 'halt!' and stop all the companies to quit lobbying congress or add health care to the bill of rights. Especially after the Supreme Court decided that it's fine for big companies to pour as much money into lobbying as possible. Obama started the pull-out from Iraq, McCain wanted us there for 50 years, Obama lifted the ban on stem-cell research, he started getting the prisoners out of Guantánamo, and he passed the closest thing to universal healthcare this country has ever seen. He also managed to get taxes from all the fat cats that were hiding their money in Switzerland, and made it harder for them to just tuck money away in offshore accounts.

I think if folks are disillusioned with Obama, they need to think back to the Bush era and try to remember what that was like. I read an interview with supposedly 'left' winger on the BBC in Michigan that was so disillusioned with Obama that he was going to vote Republican. What is that going to accomplish?