Head is telling me 50-50 split. Udall and Braley win, Orman caucuses with the Democrats or starts a "fuck y'all" caucus with King or something. Begich, Pryor, Landrieu, Nunn, Grimes lose in addition to WV/SD/MT which are foregone conclusions.
Because they keep electing morons that impede progress. It's a vicious circle created by fat cats with fat wallets to keep the people placid about everything. I normally dont like condensing complicated stuff to a one-liner like this. But everything speculawyer said is true and then some. They should look at the whole picture instead of just looking at their pockets. I'll go one step further and say most of the Americans are stupid and downright idiotic when it comes to politics. We cherish values like "I wanna have a beer with him" over "He has a PhD in economics". Michael Grimm, who has been indicted on 20 counts of fraud and threatened to throw a journalist over the balcony is leading by 4 points. That slimeball Christian Conservative congressman from Tennessee who is staunchly pro-life and heavy on family values forced his mistress to have abortions, and he is going to win on Tuesday. Because the voters think "they are like them". Smart politicians have to behave like idiots to appeal to idiots. Look at Obama. He also does it sometimes. Its IDIOTIC. Republicans have mastered the American politics and have the whole country eating out of their hands when it comes to their creation myths (high deficit is bad! government is evil!), and our idiotic citizenry now thinks Republicans are more adept at handling economy and foreign policy. Goobmints am evil! dumbocRATS are vampires who want to destroy you with social safety net programs and EPA! Elect us, we will go and show those politician snakes HOW to run a proper government. 2 years later, it's the same thing again.
Seriously, just look at that list of all the good things the GOP House and GOP members of the Senate have helped bring about.
Yeah, I mean, middle and low-income voters should prefer left-wing politics when it comes to economics and I suppose that means they should vote for the Dems if the economy is their chief concern. But, the point being made here is that the improving economy has only been noticeable to the wealthy. It's disingenuous to say they should look at the big picture and be happy when their lives, for the most part, haven't gotten better under a Democratic presidency.
Going by the ad tone benchmark (neg ads means candidate is desperate to move numbers, positive ads means candidate is winning going away,) it's Ernst in a landslide. Finally saw a positive Braley ad this morning, but it's been all attack other than that for the past few weeks. I even saw a negative yard sign for Braley in my neighborhood.
I can understand it being an elected office, but why is it a partisan office. That's just crazy
The local elections here are depressing. Why is coroner an elected office?
Something upward of 80% of Obama's ads in both 2008 and 2012 were negative. I question this line of thinking.Squirrel Killer said:
Because it was a tax position
The local elections here are depressing. Why is coroner an elected office?
He doesn't believe in thinking before he speaks unfortunately.
They are I think. Democrats who didn't vote in 2010 are making up a big chunk of 2014 early voters.
I rest my case
The American Dream
But we're still likely going to lose.
That's fucking fraud. I don't give a fuck what the law/our rights say, our laws and often rights tend to be ass backwards and this is a textbook fucking example. It's a mailer designed with the sole purpose of intimidating/scaring voters.
Good.
Sadly I think it falls under "FREEDOMS". I think US courts traditionally are very apprehensive on stopping things that are in the grey zone between offensive versus free speech
Explain to me how this is free speech?
I think this is better suited for metabolism to answer, but I mean the courts ruled that Fox News can spew legit bullshit under "News" banner, moved away from fighting words doctrine, protects hate speech etc. I think this is small beans compared to some of that stuff.
Metamucil can lecture to me all he wants; while I accept the reality of the situation that does not make it right.
What was the Pos/Neg distribution in the last week of those campaigns?
I'm not awake enough yet this morning to do the research, but I seem to recall a case where deceptive design of a mailer overrode the free speech argument. I think it involved the use of a seal that imitated a state's official seal (maybe WY or MT?) The design of the KY GOP mailer looks to me to cross the deceptive line, but IANAL.
Congratulations on voting!I voted for the first time today!
Too bad it's in dumb shit Texas where my vote mean nothing.
What does any of that have to do with being grateful? The economy isn't good. People aren't finding work and have given up, most people say they're worse off now, most people dislike Obamacare, etc. Throwing out GDP numbers isn't going to change anything.
Is wi right to work or did he just bust public unions?
