Perhaps Americans deserve what's coming to 'em if they vote GOP

[Cali_Democrat]

If Americans support the GOP this coming November, then the only conclusion one can come to is that they don't want a number of issues to be addressed.

Unemployment extension? Americans don't want it:

GOP Blocks Bill To Extend Unemployment Benefits --- By One Vote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251352687

Minimum wage increase? Americans don't want it:

Republican-Led Filibuster Blocks Minimum Wage Bill in Senate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014792641

Elizabeth Warren's student loan refinancing? Americans don't want it:

Senate Blocks Elizabeth Warren's Student Loan Refinancing Proposal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251366648

Immigration reform? Americans don't want it.

Boehner: House won’t pass Senate immigration bill

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014491216

Americans think the GOP will protect them from Ebola, ISIS and abortions. Apparently these are the top concerns for Americans at the moment which is evident by their desire to vote GOP.

Costa Rica anyone?

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Who's "counting" the votes? Corporations beholden to the 1%, that's who!

"We may be beholden to the 1%, but trust us, all your good guys lost. Sorry!"

[Cali_Democrat]

3. I think if you look at polls, Americans want GOP a the moment

It's pathetic.

[RadicalGeek]

4. But Why

I think a lot of it has to do with the Democrats not "Learning From Success"; populist, economic-inequality-based candidates win.

Also a refusal to ask the GOP "What's your plan"

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Nobody is examining the GOP

Right now everything is about Ebola, ISIS, abortions and terrorism.

The media is ignoring the other issues.

[Andy823]

5. Actually

I think that the polls are pathetic and most are slanted for the GOP. I pay no attention to the polls, the only that that I want to see is the numbers on election night. That's all the really counts.

[belzabubba333]

7. maybe cause the Gang Of Psychos do polls and dems in general dont

[brooklynite]

15. Funny, that's what the Republicans were saying in 2012...

...denying reality (whatever the cause) is not a good approach.

[pscot]

2. In aggregate, we don't seem to be

a whole lot smarter than sheep.

[belzabubba333]

6. costa rica is where randi rhodes ran off to

[hifiguy]

8. If I were 10-20 years younger

I would be off to Australia or New Zealand like a shot, never to return except for vacations.

[belzabubba333]

9. i'd like to go now - sell everything, retire and leave but my wife would never ever do it

[Seeking Serenity]

11. Except they quite likely wouldn't allow you to.

Back in the 90s, DH and I tried to emigrate to Australia. After filling out a ton of paperwork, we got a very polite "not just no, but hell no."

Most countries are like that, actually.

[KingCharlemagne]

12. The Democratic Party, in a pathetic reprise of the 2010 debacle, is illustrating

Harry S. Truman's observation made long ago:

The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat . . .

(1952)

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Truman was right

If you look at the current cop of Dems running for Congress, they are all running to the right. Everything from clean energy to immigration. They think they have to run to the right of Obama in order to win. One candidate won't even say if she voted for Obama.

They all think the ticket to getting elected is running to the right...away from Obama.

[KingCharlemagne]

14. I told my wife about an hour ago that this year's Dem Party ratioanle seems to be

"Vote for us because we're not as crazy as the other guys."

While that slogan is indisputably true, it is also true that voters in mid-terms need a far greater motivation to get out and vote than stale rehashed versions of 'lesser of two evilisms'.

My prediction: liberals, radicals and progressives will do just fine, just as they mostly did in 2010. Blue dogs and centrist Dems will take another walloping, exactly as they did in 2010.