The Republicans Are in Big Trouble: Mid-term elections prediction for 2014

[Major Hogwash]

23. Collins will be primaried, exactly for the reason the Tea Party faction hates her, she claims to be

. . a moderate.
In order for her to win her primary, she will have to run way to the right.
And if she does that, just in order to win her primary, she will be toast in the General election in the fall.
People may have short memories, but these days, they also have the internet.
And the internet changed the way politicians have to run for office now.
The YouTube channels help catch otherwise careful politicians saying dumb things all of the time.

There are more registered Democrats living in Kentucky than there are registered Republicans in that state.
Not only that, but Mitch McConnell was only 4 points ahead of Ashley Judd in polls taken just 2 months ago . . . and Ashley hadn't even announced that she was running for the Senate.
Plus the fact that Mitch only has a 33% favorable rating in his own state!!

You can't be the Minority Leader of the party in the Senate and expect to be re-elected just for saying "we don't want to discuss that" every single time an issue is brought to the Senate floor.
And yet, that is what all of those filibusters are all about.
So, McConnell is not secure in his re-election bid, at all.

As for South Carolina, they are the only state where both Senators are up for re-election next year.
Frankly, I'd like to see Lindsay Graham go down in flames.
But, I think there is a better chance that the new Senator, the one that just got there, will be thrown out of office.
He's a poser.

Chuck Hagel is from Nebraska.
I don't know why people from Nebraska wouldn't see that as a good thing for their state, since he is willing to work with President Obama as the Secretary of Defense.
Nebraska is not in the South, so they don't operate the same way there as the Tea Party faction members do in other states.