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

[sofa king]

37. A very nice summary, Hogwash!

I think it's also fair to add that billions in investment by corporations has yielded a result that is far more damaging to themselves than if they had left politics alone in the first place.

Defense contractors in particular have harmed themselves to the tune of a trillion dollars, and it is a virtual guarantee that they will seek to make some of it back by reducing political payouts to their Republican candidates, who were too stupid to stay bought (it was the President's Debt Committee ruse that did that).

The 2014 election is shaping up to be very different from the last mid-term election of 2010. In addition to the already increasing democratic momentum, the accelerating pace of the Great Republican Die-off, and the reduction in corporate political donations, there is also the economic recovery which we are already enjoying as a result of the expiration of tax cuts for the rich, and the fact that Republican gerrymandering can no longer keep pace with Republican-caused demographic shifts as more and more Americans fall into the underclasses.

The big problem now is how to motivate Democratic voters in rural and suburban districts without President Obama on the ticket. I think the answer to that is for the President to campaign alongside Congressional candidates, and to make the election a de-facto up-down vote on the President's policies.

Looking beyond that to the general election of 2016, I think it's entirely possible that the GOP is going to confuse the silence of death and destitution with the silence of disinterest, and blow that election preaching to a dead audience. It is a predictable result of the reberverating tragedy of the Bush Era.