How Hillary Clinton Won the 2014 Midterms

This article's persuasive thesis is that Clinton is looking great in 2016 because the number of Congressional seats up in 2016 in Democratic leaning districts is far greater than that in 2014.

But that's true no matter how the results were last night, and if the results had gone the other way last night, it would have, if anything, said that they'd lean even further in favor of Hillary in 2016.

What I expected the article to say, and which it doesn't, is that there's always a yin and a yang here, and that last night's results might have told us all one thing that will surely help Clinton in 2016.

If you don't get your ass out and vote, then you have no one to blame for the government you elect! Therefore, it's of tantamount importance to get out and vote.

I'm sick and tired of an American populace who can only get excited about whether their chief executive represents the political image they want, don't give a crap about the rest of government, don't show up to vote in midterm elections so as to provide a representative government, and give us the kind of Congress we are about to have. I'm also sick and tired of a Democratic party which goes more by polls than reality, WHICH IS FAR BETTER AT KNEEJERK REACTING TO POLLS THAN CREATING A MESSAGE WHICH CHANGES POLLS and did everything they could to throw Obama under the bus in this election...... how did that work for you, Democrats!?

“Take a look at this: gas under $3 a gallon – under $3 a gallon. Unemployment under 6%, whoever thought? Stock market breaking records every day. No wonder the guy is so unpopular.”David Letterman Add to that Osama Bin Laden is dead and Americans have health insurance! And what do the Dems do? By and large act as if Democratic leadership deserves to be dismissed as ineffective. Why? Because of the damn polls which are a result of their having no ability to be on message and stay on message. They're fools!

And then there may well be the Democratic constituencies, who having real gripes with Obama (like his horrible record on immigration and deportation, among other things), who are happy to shooting themselves in the foot by not voting and failing to support Dems for Senate.

A curse on all our houses!

Updated On: 11/5/14 at 08:42 AM

"This is exactly why the GOP, if they were smart, would start polishing up that turd known as Marco Rubio."

I'm sure they'll run right out and take your advice.

Liberals are the scum of the earth. Tim Scott won South Carolina and moments later Twitter was full of people calling him an Uncle Tom. Mia Love has won Utah and I'm sure they will be just as racist to her as they were to Condi Rice.

The GOP is the party of inclusion, despite all the hatred that liberals throw at them.

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Goth, how in your mind is a party that fosters anti-gay marriage sentiment, miniority disenfranchisement, anti-immigration mentality, restriction on women's rights, and panders xenophobia the party of inclusion?

There is a reason "miniority" voters turn away from the GOP in droves, and it's not because the Democrats are Machiavellian (would that the party was moreso).

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Updated On: 11/5/14 at 09:44 AM

Goth will let you know as soon as Fox News tells him.

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The GOP is the party of inclusion, despite all the hatred that liberals throw at them.

I mean...I can't even.

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Isn't Rubio kind of centrist?

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Rubio is most definitely not a centrist. He's a tea bag Republican. (Trust me, I know-my family is in Florida.) He even said in an article that there is no need for a centrist Republican candidate.

Goth, please answer my question. Do not change the topic. How is the GOP the party of inclusion when it supports alienating policies to miniorities?

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How is the GOP the party of inclusion when it supports alienating policies to minorities?

Actually, that's a question we Democrats better answer before the next election: How (and why) do the Republicans keep getting minority candidates elected as Republicans?

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Meanwhile, many conservatives are saying, "The GOP will just screw this up, the way they've screwed up every other landslide they've ever had."

(But we should stop asking why women vote GOP and start forcing Democrats starting with the White House to pay women equally, because that **** is just embarrassing.)

Anyway, there are lots of articles like this appearing on blogs:


BUSTLE.COM: 9 REASONS WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULDN'T BE WORRIED ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS TAKING THE SENATE

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Say whatever you want, but here are the facts. Obama started his Presidency with control of both the House and Senate. In six years, he lost control of both.

I hope Hillary Clinton can fart rainbows like Obama did, because people are tired of the way things are now.

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