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Topic Started: Nov 10 2006, 10:00 AM (155 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Speaking of mandates....heard this one on the radio today...the change of leadership in both House and Senate rested on a total of 73,000 votes. You change that many votes in key races, and Congress remains Republican.

It's an interesting stat...
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JBryan
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Compare that with '94 when Republicans gained 52 seats, most by 10 point margins or more.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


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John D'Oh
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Isn't this much the same as Bush's extremely slender majority in 2000?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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JBryan
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The point is that their hold on the majority is tenuous at best. They are the majority now and they are entitled to full excercise of that regardless of the margins. But come two years from now they have a lot of seats to hold on to in normally Republican districts that they only won because the incumbent was tainted somehow by scandal. If Republicans do the right things in the next two years (quite an accomplishment since they have done all the wrong things in the last two) and field a good presidential candidate they could turn the whole thing back around.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Jolly
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Ok, you can say you heard it here first....

Bobby Jindal will soon decide whether to run for Governor of Louisana (he was defeated by Blanco last time) or U.S. Senator.

Landrieu's power base has always been the Dem vote from New Orleans. Among Democratic Senators, she is considered the most easily defeated, since a lot of that base is no longer there....and that is saying something, since Louisana firmly believes in having Senators in senior positions, which takes longevity in office.

Jindal won reelection to the House with almost 80% of the vote...and he has built some heavy-duty credentials within the state in the last couple of years...I think he gets elected to whatever he wants...
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John D'Oh
Nov 10 2006, 10:09 AM
Isn't this much the same as Bush's extremely slender majority in 2000?

Well, the VP was a tie breaking vote in the Senate for a while if I remember so less close than that but the Senate is close.


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Jolly
Nov 10 2006, 10:00 AM
Speaking of mandates....heard this one on the radio today...the change of leadership in both House and Senate rested on a total of 73,000 votes. You change that many votes in key races, and Congress remains Republican.

It's an interesting stat...

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JBryan
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Why on earth is that sour grapes?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Jolly
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From Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: sour grapes
Function: noun plural
Etymology: from the fable ascribed to Aesop of the fox who after finding himself unable to reach some grapes he had desired disparaged them as sour
: disparagement of something that has proven unattainable <his criticisms are just sour grapes>


Therefore your comment is bovine scat.


I'm not talking about anything unobtainable, I'm talking about how close this election was. It is not a mandate, and most smart people are talking about how the Republicans lost, not how the Dems won.

If you'd like to pare this down just to the Senate, Republicans lost control by less than 2000 votes. I would say in a national election that counts as close.

No, I would say that your sour grapes comment illustrates some deep found fear that even after all of the media frenzy, the Republican scandals, and the war in Iraq, this was not the blowout many would paint it to be.

Now, let me put it plainly...If you don't like what I have to say, carry your ass, buddy-rough. Because I'm afraid you're gonna hear a lot more of it.
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