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2002: Democrats received 45% of the votes and took 46.9% of the seats. 2004: They received 46.6% of the votes and took 46.4% of the seats. 2006: They received 52% of the votes and took 53.6% of the seats. 2008: They received 52.9% of the votes and took 59.1% of the seats. 2010: They received 44.8% of the votes and took 44.4% of the seats. 2012: They received 49.1% (plurality) of the votes and took 46.2% of the seats. The difference was bigger than most of the previous decade, but smaller than the 2008 victory. It was close enough that I'm not ready to say "2010 gerrymandering has ruined the decade!" or anything. A significant number of Republican wins were very close, I think there's a fair chance of 2014 re-takeover if the Republicans get blamed for all the budget nonsense (and people keep it in mind for 2 years). Lycus fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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Inferior Third Season posted:Yes, the 22nd amendment only refers to the president. The way it is worded, it may even be possible for Obama to run for VP, and take over as president again if needed, since it only talks about electing the president, but I am not a constitutional scholar.
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They're more GOProstrate or GOPassive, really.
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Of course Rand Paul is going to do well with NH Republicans. I wouldn't expect anything else.
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FadingChord posted:(Speaking of how American politics always being about trolling people, the Federalists specifically made it legal to criticize the Vice President while making it a federal crime to criticize the president or Congress. For all the hemming and hawing about how the Founding Fathers gave us a sacrosanct Constitution, they sure did gently caress everything up a couple times.)
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I guess McCain doesn't want to leave the Senate chambers via anyway other than on a gurney.
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It boggles me that people actually like that in a governor.Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!"
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Haha, Rand is losing his cool over this. Want to capitalize on this, Cruz?
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FMguru posted:Clinton 1992 was a second-tier national figure, but a first-tier candidate compared to the rest of the Class of 1992. Pretty much all the bigger-name Dems, frightened by Bush's 91% approval rating after the Kuwait War, came down with severe cases of spending more time with their families - Cuomo, Biden, Kerry, Kerrey, Nunn, Gore, Bradley, and so on. Who was higher-tier than Clinton? Tsongas, Brown, Harkin?
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jeffersonlives posted:Bernie, clarifying his recent comments hinting at a presidential run, says if he does run, it would "probably" be as an independent a la Nader instead of in the Democratic primaries. Silly on a number of levels, I think.
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I think all these "death of the Republican Party" scenarios that left-wingers like to fantasize about are just too naively optimistic. I remember them being popular right after 2008, and things didn't pan out that way.
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If it ultimately happens, I'll be happy about it, but I'm too skeptical now.
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Insurance companies won't be as wealthy as they are now, but yeah,I figure private health insurance will be a thing that rich people have so that they don't have to wait their turn behind poor people to get all their health care.
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jeffersonlives posted:The idea of impeachment or a recall drive is already being floated and Christie is at war with the Republican legislative caucuses, so probably a lot.
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HFX posted:In my opinion Hillary would be a terrible choice for a candidate. She carries a lot of negative baggage and negativity left, right, and center. Then again, the Republicans can make even worse choices than Romney.
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It's in Scalia's living will to be kept on life support until a Republican president is inaugurated.
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skaboomizzy posted:Hillary will cakewalk through everyone except Biden, who will put up token resistance through the early states. Schweitzer is campaigning to be the new Biden, aka "outspoken, quirky VP who appeals to blue-collar types who wouldn't normally vote for a woman (or minority) President". 95% of the electorate doesn't know that the VP has nothing at all to do with the President's agenda, it's all image. Schweitzer and his adorable dog will show up wherever, fire off a few down-home quips. That's his ceiling.
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A million goons cried out in anguish when Feingold lost to a Tea Partier.
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Joementum posted:I think there's enough desire for a female Republican candidate that she could make a serious run of it, even from the non-traditional House member perch.
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What about Ryan?
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I figure a good parallel to Christie might be Rudy Giuliani. If I remember correctly, lots of people where convinced that he was going to be the nominee in 2007, and then he completely crashed and burned when the actual primaries started.
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"See how bad I am at political retribution? I tried my hardest and the best thing I an come up with is 'he did badly in high school social studies'. I don't have enough aptitude for this to do anything as sophisticated as the traffic scandal."
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Haha,  really wants him to run again. Every time Mitt said "no" he just kept on trying to convince him.
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Dick Morris is an amazing human being. How does he keep convincing people to pay him for analysis?
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I personally like how Hawaii's only leaning Obama.
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Slate Action posted:Nate Silver poo poo talking Dean Chambers constantly was amazing and we can only hope for something that hilarious in 2016.
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Joementum could be a thing in 2016, as Joe Scarborough is kicking the tires on a possible 2016 run Look at how well Jon Huntsman did. Who wouldn't want to drive in the "Jon Huntsman lane"?
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Whenever a 3rd party candidate* that acquires some degree of popularity runs for president and loses, people seem to stop giving a poo poo about them right after the election. I think prominent left-wingers are better off focusing their time and money in trying to get people elected to city and state government, and then build up slowly. I like Bernie, but I don't think running for president would be worth anything. *My opinion of him running in the Dem primary isn't much different. Lycus fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Gyges posted:Wonder how the world would change if Vice President Lieberman had been sworn in with Bush.
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Pinterest Mom posted:The Senate was actually split 50/50 at the time. A tie vote would have been broken by the President of the Senate, one Albert Gore Jr Lycus fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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poo poo, thought it was in December. Guess that's just the deadline for casting them. Well, whatever would've end up happening, it would've been enjoyable to watch.
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Edit: drat it wrong button
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The only legit experience for becoming president is being president. Repeal the 22nd amendment, only nominate ex-presidents from now on.
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Taerkar posted:Increased Death Penalties!
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I don't think Rubio's been a favorite for a really long time, but I don't think any one is favored enough for anyone to predict that they're gonna be in the general. Some polls say Paul, some say Huckabee, etc. It's still completely up in the air.
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Cruz strikes me as the new Ron Paul, that is: small but super-vocal fanbase.
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Texas. Keep 'em contained.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:The GOP shouldn't be that deep into self reflection yet. Besides, they're not gonna self-reflect if they're still winning Congress. I think you need several straight losses in every branch before you're goin' "Oh poo poo, what are we doing?"
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Right-wingers have a tendency to put homosexuality, pedophilia and polygamy under the same umbrella of "sexual deviancy". You're either a sexual deviant or you're not, and if you're advocating rights for one type of sexual deviancy, you're advocating for it all.
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More amusingly, Palin would lose Alaska to Clinton.
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