Predict the future...

[Supergirl]

Will the Dems lose both the House and the Senate? Will the defy most of the pundits and hold both? I'm going out on a limb and saying they're not going to lose as badly as people have been predicting. I don't think they'll lose the Senate, and I think they'll lose some seats in the House but not as many as some might think they will.

[Spurminator]

In the future people will be distracted on a daily basis by emotional wedge issues and continue to be convinced that the two parties are vastly different and are not controlled by the same interests.

[RandomGuy]

I think the overall result will be very near parity with the Dems retaining razor thin majorities in both wings of Congress.

[coyotes_geek]

small rep majority in the house, small dem majority in the senate.

[Winehole23]

I concur with Supergirl and coyotes_geek.

RG's contrarian take is just possible, which is to say, it is very unlikely. But it is not impossible.

[Winehole23]

In the future people will be distracted on a daily basis by emotional wedge issues and continue to be convinced that the two parties are vastly different and are not controlled by the same interests.Loyalties to brand and tribe run strong.

[MannyIsGod]

House is gone, Senate is likely not.

If the GOP doesn't win the House though they'd better be ready with some crazy spin control.

[DarrinS]

Obama would benefit from losing both.

[baseline bum]

Obama would benefit from losing both.

True. At least then he'd have an excuse for signing turds of bills.

[RandomGuy]

I concur with Supergirl and coyotes_geek.

RG's contrarian take is just possible, which is to say, it is very unlikely. But it is not impossible.

Yeah, I began to re-think that the second I posted it, but heck, I'll stick my neck out and keep it.

As with anything, it depends on who turns out and why.

[RandomGuy]

True. At least then he'd have an excuse for signing turds of bills.

For all the bitching that the GOP has done about nasty parlimentary tricks being played to have issues for Dems to run on, everyone knows that the GOP will do exactly the same when their time comes.

They will produce pieces of shit bills about funding troops or something everybody agrees is a good thing with ideological "poison pills" in the fine print, so that they can say "the president vetoed funding for our troops in the field".

[jack sommerset]

Dems will lose house next week. Dems will lose senate and presidency 2012. Repugs, teabaggers and independents will unite and start kicking illegals out, war in Afgan will end, taxes will be lowered, unemployement will be around 4 percent, our deficit will stop growing and no left wing nutjob willl ever hold a position of importance regarding the future of the greatest country on Earth.

If for some reason the senate will go to the repugs next week, the left talking heads will explode!

[hater]

Dems will lose senate and presidency 2012.

to who? to Palin? :lmao

[CosmicCowboy]

Republicans narrowly take the House...(10 seats?)

Democrats narrowly keep the Senate (2 seats?)

Total gridlock as nothing can get bipartisan support and if it did it wouldn't be veto proof.

This actually works to Obama's benefit for 2012 as he now has the Republican House to blame for everything.

[MannyIsGod]

Its not really about who he has to blame but 1st term members of congress having to defend their seats when the public generally hates all of them.

[RandomGuy]

Dems will lose house next week. Dems will lose senate and presidency 2012. Repugs, teabaggers and independents will unite and start kicking illegals out, war in Afgan will end, taxes will be lowered, unemployement will be around 4 percent, our deficit will stop growing and no left wing nutjob willl ever hold a position of importance regarding the future of the greatest country on Earth.

If for some reason the senate will go to the repugs next week, the left talking heads will explode!

You forgot the words "I wish" at the beginning. :p:


Honestly, I would be perfectly happy turning over the keys to the belief block you represent. Give you 10 years to do whatever it is you please with the national government, for good or ill. At the end of the ten years we can see what worked and what didn't.

[coyotes_geek]

This actually works to Obama's benefit for 2012 as he now has the Republican House to blame for everything.

Depends what happens with the economy between now and then. If the republicans get control of one or both houses and things improve, it could be bad news for Obama.

[101A]

Depends what happens with the economy between now and then. If the republicans get control of one or both houses and things improve, it could be bad news for Obama.


If the economy improves; the President gets the credit.

Always.

[coyotes_geek]

If the economy improves; the President gets the credit.

Always.

I dunno. I agree that's how it usually works, but this seems like it would be a unique scenario. If the republicans get control of one or both houses and they spend the next 2 years fighting Obama on basically everything, and if the economy gets better during that time then they'll be able to say "look how much better things got once we stopped Obama's socialist policies!". It will just be rhetoric, but rhetoric wins elections.

JMHO at least.

[word]

Well, it would help if I didn't confuse the word lose and hold. I'm the single vote for 'lose the senate not the house' vote. Because I can't read, apparently.

[Wild Cobra]

to who? to Palin? :lmao
I would say that is very possible. She has been getting a great deal of practice at the art of speaking. I'll bet in 1-1/2 years, she will not be weighed down by poor choices of words, and will have a better knowledge of events.

[Winehole23]

Well, it would help if I didn't confuse the word lose and hold. I'm the single vote for 'lose the senate not the house' vote. Because I can't read, apparently.It could happen to anybody. A fouled ST ballot ain't so bad. Not this one, anyway.




(Wave is still coming)

[Winehole23]

most craptastic US Congress ever

[Winehole23]

Right now, we have no realistic idea how much worse things can get.