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Dems not expected to take over House, even after massive campaign spending

by: Karl Marx

Sat Nov 03, 2012 at 14:43:00 PM EDT


The Pelosi assault has been repelled.

The AP reports that the House is likely to stay in GOP hands.

"Candidates, both political parties and hordes of corporate, labor, ideological and other groups have spent a record $1.1 billion on House races since this campaign cycle began last year, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Yet by the time the last votes are counted Tuesday, Democrats may pick up a handful of districts but are widely expected to miss their goal of gaining the 25 additional seats they need to grab control of the chamber."

"Candidates, both political parties and hordes of corporate, labor, ideological and other groups have spent a record $1.1 billion on House races since this campaign cycle began last year, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Yet by the time the last votes are counted Tuesday, Democrats may pick up a handful of districts but are widely expected to miss their goal of gaining the 25 additional seats they need to grab control of the chamber."

Make way for Tisei.

Karl Marx :: Dems not expected to take over House, even after massive campaign spending
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And according to the linked article... (1.33 / 3)
...the main reason is the gerrymandering by Republican controlled legislatures gave the big F You to the voters and cut out safe seats for their incumbents.  And despite the dishonest headline you gave your post--implying that the Dems have far outspent the Reps--the story you link to in no way suggest that the Dems have spent more cash in this cycle.

And no matter what happens in MA, the article predicts Dem pick ups in the House, making it far harder for the Republican radicals to push their agenda.  


Really Geo999 (0.00 / 0)
...you rate my comment a zero, for apparently citing the information contained in the article that is the supporting document for this post.  Basically you rated facts a "0".  No surprise I guess.  

[ Parent ]
Low Rating For Whining (0.00 / 0)
I'll give this a low rating for whining about the obvious. You are actually complaining about gerrymandering? Geez  ...take a look at the Mass delegation. How do you suppose that we always get such fine "representation"? Just coincidence?

[ Parent ]
I gave you a zero for misreading Karl's title. (5.00 / 1)
It just blows me away that you got "the Dems have far outspent the Reps" from this title ...

Dems not expected to take over House, even after massive campaign spending
 WOW - that's a whole new level of CRAZY Festus.  That is beyond "Foaming at the Mouth Crazy" or "Bat Shit Crazy."

Dude, you are so crazy you're starting to hallucinate. You should splash some water on your face or something.  Just try to pull yourself together.  

Molon Labe


[ Parent ]
"despite the dishonest headline you gave your post--implying that the Dems have far outspent the Reps" - Simple (0.00 / 0)
He's not implying that you fool.  His headline is clear

Dems not expected to take over House, even after massive campaign spending
Where did you get "Dems have far outspent the Reps" in that title?  You're crazy Simple and you need to stop smoking that shit!  I'm rating your comment with a zero due to poor reading comprehension.  This isn't BlueMassGroup Simple, just because you imagined something doesn't make it true.

Molon Labe

[ Parent ]
Classic (5.00 / 1)


"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

[ Parent ]
He is in full blown crazy mode (0.00 / 0)


Molon Labe

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It's what I see in (0.00 / 0)
ALL of my politically active lefty friends.

They're INSANE right now....and they know why.

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard


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Hey Simple! Do Democrats ever gerrymander? (0.00 / 0)
Of course they do. Case in point: Massachusetts, the birthplace of the gerrymander. In fact much is invested in winning State House battles for that purpose. The GOP won many state capitals. What do you expect the GOP to do?

"Work is the essence of Man."

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Massive spending? What's the difference between the two parties? (0.00 / 0)
Pelosi and company were hoping on big coat-tails from Obama. Now they are worried about keeping what they have and maybe at best picking two or three seats. It's proven financially costly to them.

Here's Politico!

Nancy Pelosi has spent much of the past two years proclaiming that Democrats had a great shot at reclaiming the House and returning the speaker's gavel to her hands.

But her drive to regain the majority for Democrats is on the verge of a complete collapse. Democrats are expected to pick up five seats at best - a fraction of the 25 they need. On the eve of the election, some party officials are privately worried that Democrats might even lose ground and drop one or two seats to the Republican majority.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s...

The same article has some spending figures. Thirty to 40 million difference is chump change. That difference is the cost to the GOP for retaining its lead.

No matter how you slice it the Democrats grand strategy of MediScare has not worked.  

"Work is the essence of Man."


[ Parent ]
Here is one example of hardball GOP tactics... (4.00 / 1)
...that combines aggressive gerrymandering and obscene amounts of outside money to try and steal a seat.  Folks around here may cheer if this seat goes GOP, but it could very well be a Richard Tiesii or other GOP candidates in the corporate cross hairs if they "don't behave"

I'd love to hear a defense of a political system that has transformed a sleepy congressional rural district that required $450,000 "war chest" into a$9 million feast of special interest spending.  


Not sure if gerrymandering will ever end. (0.00 / 0)
Whoever is in power benefits by being able to gerrymander.

I wonder if increasing the size of the House would help matters any in addition to simply making the House more representative.

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"That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said." - Metropolitan (1990)


[ Parent ]
No Gerrymandering will never end... (2.00 / 1)
...although I haven't followed the results of the "commissions" that closely, they sometimes result in shooting a state in the foot--blindly looking at a map and data and getting ride of a congressman who has a ton of power and delivers for a state (regardless of their party) and keeping a rookie with no power.

[ Parent ]
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