Republicans didn’t do as well as they could have...
Winning = losing.... ’d say the big problem with the “winning = losing” spin for Democrats is that President Obama is still toxic, his “pen-and-phone” imperial presidency bluster is going to be swept off the table by panicked Party leaders worried about 2016, Obama himself would rather spend the next two years golfing and finding teenage audiences still willing (or forced by their teachers) to sit all the way through one of his speeches, and there are some sharp Republicans out there who understand the importance of bleeding political capital away from the Democrats by forcing them to oppose legislation popular with the American people.
Democrats lost because they ran away from Obama...
The election was just an anti-Obama temper tantrum...
Republicans only won because of “dark money”...
Republicans won because white racists and cranky old people support them
This election was just a bout of anti-incumbent fever: In which not a single Republican incumbent in the Senate lost? This one’s dead already, but I can still hear its death rattle on Twitter. It should be rolling through the crematorium by lunchtime.
This election proves democracy is broken, so we should get rid of it: Popular in the egghead community, but a non-starter with everyone else. Let me break this gently to the furrowed-brow set on the Left: we’re not going to abolish midterm elections, or abolish Congress in favor of a dictatorial presidency. KEEP READING
◼ So if the GOP wins, it really loses. On what planet does that make sense? - MRC
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday morning, Politico's Jim VandeHei absurdly claimed that Republicans would be in big trouble if they took control of the Senate in the midterm election: "...even if Republicans win, I think they're going to be in a hell of a jam. In that they're not going to be able to get anything done."
VandeHei predicted Senators like Ted Cruz would be "breathing fire" and that "ultraconservatives" would control the party: "... and it's what's gonna make governing almost impossible over the next two years. This happy talk that things can get done is nonsense if you look at the history of the last four years in terms of how these House Republicans want to vote and what the base of the Republican Party responds to."...
◼ The liberal media is in full pout mode....The 10 most delicious liberal election disaster headlines - Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
◼ Why the media, seduced by the polls, were stunned by huge Democratic defeat - Howard Kurtz/FOX
...as one Republican after another declared victory, there was another aspect to the coverage that struck me: The focus remained solidly on the Democrats and why they had so badly blown the election.◼ Could it have been the GOP simply had better ideas?, Be kind. Dealing with that takes times. - Discussion at Lucianne
In 2006, the story, in a nutshell, was DEMOCRATS WIN. In 2014, despite the headlines about the GOP seizing control of the Senate, the story was, in essence, DEMOCRATS LOSE....
