Republicans will need a national wave to take back the Senate in 2014

That said, let’s recall that at this time two years ago, Republicans also had an attractive playing field: They had to defend only 10 seats, while Democrats had to defend 23. And yet Democrats actually ended up netting two seats.

The short story is that the USA is a center-left country.

In the worst economic “recovery”……when the unemployment is almost TWICE as when Obama took office………when his policies all relied on debt, debt, debt…….Obama still managed to pick up Additional Seats in the US Senate…..and topped 300 again in the electoral college winning re-election.

The US is a center-left country.

In 2010, Republicans probably threw away three seats when they nominated weak candidates in Colorado, Delaware and Nevada. Then, in the just-concluded election, they threw away, at a minimum, two more seats in Indiana and Missouri (thanks to the disastrous candidacies of Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin). And that’s not counting other Senate races where different Republican candidates might have performed better or even won in Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and Virginia.

And the media (Yahoo News, CNN, all local TV stations) ran non-stop the 1 gaffle committed by Akin. And Akin’s gaffe was repeated later by Indiana Senate candidate Murdock, which led to non-stop media coverage of the same story over and over and over again.

Yet, Missouri and Indiana voted AGAINST Obama, but voters there elected Senators who will back Obama’s policies.

Go figure.

The media is part and parcel of the Center-Left wing paradigm of this country.

The Republican candidate is not permitted to make even 1 gaffle…..or else, he or she is “toast” and the media will repeat it for months.

We have seen this liberal media trend in every US Senate election (Montana and Virginia both in 2006, I think….GOP candidates said the wrong thing, and the media spread it non-stop).

where different Republican candidates might have performed better or even won in Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and Virginia.

Think about that for a second……the GOP even lost the North Dakota Senate Race????

In a year where voters are supposed to Punish the Incumbent Party due to the bad economy, supposedly “conservative” North Dakota elected a Democrat Senator who will support the policies of President Obama while at the same time voting against Obama for President?

Go figure.

This is a center-left country.

I am not suggesting that conservatives “throw in the towel and give up.” I am just saying the facts are facts….and the majority of voters do not care about limited government or constitutional restraints nowadays.

Our savior is more government, and the method is more spending.

56andwarmweather on November 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM

The only thing that will create a wave election against democrats is for people to experience the full force of their policies.

darwin on November 29, 2012 at 2:47 PM

And when I point out to people that the reason why they have Not experienced the full force of the Keynesian policies of President Obama is because of Debt, Debt, and more debt borrowing….due to China and other countries and entities purchasing our T-bonds….and also that USA citizens will have to repay that Debt back with interest……..then the conversation kinda ends, and people tend to get silent.

The silence is deafening.

We are a center-left country.

We look for the Federal Government to solve all our problems that we create..

The federal government is the savior, and the method is spending.

We really are a center-left country.

56andwarmweather on November 29, 2012 at 3:02 PM