This is like someone saying, “If the Colts can’t beat the Giants by more than 21 points, it’ll be a humiliation for the Colts.” I think the winning side gets to determine how it feels about its victory.
One other prediction: Democrats’ lectionaries will substitute “obstructionist” behavior (the minority party in the Senate stopping legislation) for “heroic” (the minority party in the Senate stopping legislation).
I have no idea what the specifics are. I’m taking at face value your representation that “Some 40,000 voter registrations seem to have just sort of wandered away.” And I’m pointing out that federal law provides a remedy for a voter who is eligible to vote in an election for Federal office, but whose name does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place.
My ideals for a free and fair election would involve banning “walking around money.” I suspect yours don’t, so I believe that you and I don’t share a common vision of what “free and fair” elections look like.
One of the things The West Wing has taught us. The POTUS stamps it AND signs it.
If they can motivate the Republicans (assuming they win the Senate) to end the filibuster as it currently exists, then it will be damn well heroic! Bring back the talking filibuster!
I think I’m going to cling to my prediction of a month or two ago, albeit with far less certainty: 50-50.
I do readily admit that the Republicans are trending to 51 or 52 seats, but the electorate is extremely volatile this year. I’m hoping for the best, and I see 50-50 as the best my party can hope for.
That includes Orman as a D, which. . . who knows. If his vote gets the Republicans to 51 or the Democrats to 50 (and then Biden), well, he’s going to be offered everything but the kitchen sink by both parties.
I think Republicans take the Senate. I won’t like it, but that’s the way the polls all lean.
I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Ain’t over till the fat lady is dead.
It would be useful if posters would state who they want to win, so that the correlation between preference and prediction would be more apparent.
In the runup to the 2012 elections there was much wailing about how the Republicans were in denial about the polls and that the Democrats were better than that, but ISTM that the same holds for both sides. This is supported by what I see here (& in other threads) but there are some whose ideology is not so well known.
Other than “gotcha ya”, what purpose does this serve? My posts in political threads on the SDMB since 2002 have made it amply clear which party I support, and if you haven’t figured that out by now, I’m not going to do your homework for you.
The notion that Republicans are uniquely predisposed to wishful thinking seemed to be of great interest to a lot of people on this board for the past two years, judging by the number of posters who kept harping on it. I can understand why a lot of these people would be less interested in the subject now, but for some the interest lingers.
Not everyone is following you or your posts since 2002. However as it happens your post to this thread was pretty explicit as to who you support, so all is well.
What is wrong with kentuckyians that keep voting for mcconnell
McConnell’s a guy who just needs to go away. But you can’t beat something with nothing. She couldn’t even admit that she voted for Obama in 2012. How is that giving KY voters an honest choice?
My prediction stands: 53 GOP Senate seats.
OK, well that makes sense, but. . .
You’ve been around the board long enough to have a good idea of who supports which party, if you really cared enough to pay attention. I’m sure there are posters who don’t generally post in political threads who have been drawn in by the election today, but I doubt if they’re the wishful thinkers you are looking for.
Generally I don’t care enough to pay attention (although in some cases it’s hard to miss). It’s relevant to this particular thread, though. Plus, it’s not all about me.
A marvelous false equivalence, equating the blocking of a fair number of bills one party doesn’t like, with blocking pretty much everything the other party tries to do.
1/3 = 1. Bricker math.
Nah, baby. Bricker math is counting up all the money hopeful liberals are going to send me, and the Little Sisters of the Poor.
One of the first races called was McConnell winning.
How wrong were you, say, on a scale of 1 to 10?
Say goodbye to Orman.
Well, my “51 or 52” also appears to be wrong. I hoped for the best; I got the worst. shrug It happens.
On to 2016!