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2010 Midterm Election Preditions

What will be the result of the 2010 midterm elections in the US?

  • Republicans will sweep to victory in both houses of Congress

    Votes: 2 4.8%

  • Republicans will make significant gains but only win back one house of Congress

    Votes: 7 16.7%

  • Republicans will make modest gains but Democrats will retain majorities in both house of Congress

    Votes: 16 38.1%

  • The number of seats controlled by each party will remain about the same

    Votes: 11 26.2%

  • Democrats will control even more seats than now

    Votes: 4 9.5%

  • I thought we were an autonomous collective

    Votes: 2 4.8%
  • Total voters
    42

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What do you think will happen in the US midterm elections in 2010?
A big year for republicans like 1994? Or something else?
 
Republicans will make modest gains but Democrats will retain majorities in both house of Congress
Unless President Obama does something really stupid, which so far he has not.

That said, it is also possible that GOP loses seats, since what they are currently trying, in terms of "no True Republican" in re conservatives stands to cost them center/center right votes in the next scrap at the ballot box.

Having a great deal of trouble reading how that plays out, given the loss in NY in part due to this precise tactic of trying to exclude the middle.

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The GOP will win back the House, but the Senate is unrealistic given the number of Republican versus Democrat seats up next year.
 
I predict that things will remain about the same.
I think that the economy will be improving and unemployment will be falling by that time.
People will feel better about the way things are going.
 
On Planet X, the total number of seats in Congress will remain about the same.
 
The country's leaning to the left and there's some potential for third party candidates. The GOP still attracts looney politicians like drunk blondes attract hard dicks.
 
I think the Republicans will make significant gains, but not because people are re-enamored with the party, more as a means to express dissatisfaction with both parties. To tell the truth, this would see a good time for third party alternatives across the spectrum to make a stab at congressional seats.

A good strong centrist fiscally conservative, socially moderate party could pull from both the Dems and the Repubs. A nationalistic, moral values party could siphon off the far right whackadoodles. A good hard green, anti-war party could scrape the fringe Left.

Ultimately this might leave about 15-20% of the electorate as Republicans, 20-25% as Democrats, a good 30-40% or so as centrists, and 15-25% or so split between the fringes. Of course until a lot more third party candidates start getting elected, people in general aren't going to accept that voting for them is a legitimate option. More choices among parties that accurate reflect voter perspectives, is a good thing, IMO. Though it is only second best to the elimination and outlawing of all parties...again, IMO.
 
Too freaking early for predictions. A lot can happen in a year.
Taking this as a given. my prediction is that the GOP might pick up a few seats, as the opposition party generally does in off year elections,but they will not come within a million miles of pulling off another 1994.
 
If the Republicans can build a big tent policy than they have a chance, if tea baggers, 9/12ers and birthers become the face of the party in the minds of many Americans not so much. It won't be because people are really switching parties but because they just won't turn out for an election. The Republican party needs to decide what they are, and if they choose the "no true Republican, everyone not like us is a RINO" line than they will not have significant gains for awhile.
 
fullflavormenthol said:
If the Republicans can build a big tent policy than they have a chance, if tea baggers, 9/12ers and birthers become the face of the party in the minds of many Americans not so much. It won't be because people are really switching parties but because they just won't turn out for an election. The Republican party needs to decide what they are, and if they choose the "no true Republican, everyone not like us is a RINO" line than they will not have significant gains for awhile.
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Sorry, "9/12ers"?
 
The GOP needs talk radio to help them turn out the voters. That is what made the 9/12 action seem as "successful" as it seemed.

They are going to run the party right into the ditch.
 
if the Tea Baggers (I love that name) continue their right-wing conservative Jihad, and demand that all obey their will, Democrats will definetely retain control of both the House and the Senate.

Now, if the GOPers actually find their brains, which they hid in their basement since 2001, there is a chance they might win back a few seats, if they come to their senses. But that is doubtful.
 
Darth Rotor said:
Having a great deal of trouble reading how that plays out, given the loss in NY in part due to this precise tactic of trying to exclude the middle.
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good point. i forgot about that. indeed, if nothing major happens, and the right-wingers play the same game they did in NY 23, they will lose seats.

woo hoo!!!!
 
leftysergeant said:
The GOP needs talk radio to help them turn out the voters. That is what made the 9/12 action seem as "successful" as it seemed.

They are going to run the party right into the ditch.
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Or, as I like to say it, these Tea Party nutters take the attitude that they'll either run the GOP or run it into the ground.

Yet, despite all the evidence that the TPers are frothing to purge moderates from the GOP, there are still those here who insist that NY23 was simply an isolated incident that will not, nay... cannot, be repeated elsewhere. Denial is a sad thing to see.
 
America will split into two countries. Rational America and Teabagistan.

I believe the capital of Teabagistan should be called Shriek.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Or, as I like to say it, these Tea Party nutters take the attitude that they'll either run the GOP or run it into the ground.

Yet, despite all the evidence that the TPers are frothing to purge moderates from the GOP, there are still those here who insist that NY23 was simply an isolated incident that will not, nay... cannot, be repeated elsewhere. Denial is a sad thing to see.
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You may be right. And they may get elected, the way the economy is tanking. Wouldn't that be something? Might be time to register Republican, because the GOP primary votes are likely to be the only ones that matter in 2010.

:cool:
 
Brainster said:
Might be time to register Republican, because the GOP primary votes are likely to be the only ones that matter in 2010.
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At this rate, that will only be so because there will be only a choice between a Democrat and a known lunatic.
 
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