The media is predicting a huge GOP landslide this fall.

[Kablooie]

Hoo boy.
I'm reading more and more articles about how the tide is changing and Republicans are becoming giddy over their fall opportunities.

According to the news, polls show a huge swing towards the right.

If the media is correct we are in for at least two years of absolute, rock solid, dead stagnation in government with Obama getting the blame.

And the shrill, illogical, paranoid screaming voices will feel emboldened to screech even louder.


I hope they are wrong (of course), but I am seeing this news popping up just about everywhere I look nowadays.

[tonysam]

1. The media WANTS it to happen n/t

[laughingliberal]

5. Yes. The longer Democrats have the majority, the more chance some of them will grow a pair

and stand up to the corporate powers. We need to get our financial reform bills passed before they are further watered down and start in on workers' rights (EFCA) in time to use the populist message (the real one) for the midterms.

[breadandwine]

49. And it IS going to happen. Because Democrats are WIMPS who don't fight.

If the GOP were in our shoes, they would be smacking the hell out of the other side and we don't. They would also be going after the Supreme Court for "legislating from the bench" and being "activist." They would be moving to impeach Supreme Court justices just like they successfully impeached Clinton. It didn't matter that they couldn't convict. They would impeach anyway. We don't because we are WIMPS. We always bring a knife to a gun fight. We don't fight, we don't answer them, we don't hit back.

[Patsy Stone]

2. They always do.

That's their job.

If you build it, they will come.

[Captain Hilts]

3. I think they're wrong. 'More of same' [Dem victory] just isn't as good a story for them.

The media likes changes and upsets.

[zipplewrath]

4. Certain places

There are certain "red" places that went "blue" recently and the GOP suspects they can "get them back". Mayb they can, maybe not. If they get a few, this will be their "big win". I'm dubious that there will be any kind of 1994 style shift here. We'll lose some seats probably. Mostly just a numbers game now.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. A Union organizer I know

said right before the health care vote that their projections showed us losing 25 seats, not enough to flip the balance of power. And that was before we regained the momentum.

We will lose seats, but not enough to give the Republicans control again.

[mdmc]

14. I agree - the GOP has a problem

1. Teabaggers - they want small govt. guns. lower taxes..
The GOP gave us the PATRIOT ACT, Bank Bailouts, and two loser wars. Plus a huge deficit.
The poor GOP can't go to the teabaggers and say "Vote for us! Under Raygun, Bush, and Bush we lowered taxes, lowered the deficit, and cut big government." their record is awful.

The teabaggers are pissed at the corporatism. And they are pissed at Obama. But the GOP don't seem to have an answer to corporatism.

[yellowcanine]

15. Democrats are almost bound to lose a few House seats because they picked up so many in 2006 and 2008

Some of those seats are traditional Republican seats which will revert back. However my feeling is that the loss of both House and Senate seats will be minimal and possibly Democrats may break even or better in the Senate.

[daleanime]

22. We could lose two seats...

and the MSM would call it a landslide.:mad:

[FSogol]

7. Correction: The media is trying to influence a GOP landslide. It will not happen.

[grahamhgreen]

8. Let's. fix the Health Crapsurance bill by passing a public option! Problem solved!

[DearAbby]

9. I honestly don't see it

the GOP are polling at their lowest, teabags even less. You can't win elections with those numbers. I think the media is hyping a fight that isn't going to be there.

[greencharlie]

31. source or it didn't happen... nt

[DearAbby]

44. :)

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm

[GoCubsGo]

52. You CAN win with those numbers if...

...your opponents get so demoralized by incessantly hearing that they're going to get slaughtered in the elections that they stay home and don't vote. Just look around here at DU. It's already starting. One would think that people would remember what went on when the republicans were running the Congress. Apparently, their memories are really, really short these days.

[stubtoe]

10. Well, that's the preferred narrative, anyway.

We'll see what really happens.

[Raschel]

11. The media pretends Palin is smart too. I don't believe there'll be a landslide.

Republicans are becoming a minority.

[Ikonoklast]

12. 'The media' also report on Lindsey Lohan's latest drunken escapades.

Sensationalism, it's what fuels the whole circus.


If it's on the airwaves, it needs to be taken with a grain of salt three meters square. Reality and the media have a tenuous relationship, at best.

[BurtWorm]

13. A friend of mine who works for the Obama administration told me

that they believe the GOP is in too much of a shambles to make the kinds of gains the media are talking about. They're not worried, he says. They think the GOP is taking the wrong tack on financial reform and it's going to kill them with middle class voters.

I would love to believe my friend, but I worry that the Obama people are not the most reliable readers of the political mood, judging from the health care reform debacle--although they did finally win that one, from their and the Republicans' perspectives.

[yellowcanine]

17. "the GOP is in too much of a shambles" has a nice ring to it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Agreed. The Dems took easy street in Massachusetts and ended up packing Kennedy staff

offices and leaving Washington to that tea bagger Cosmo-not, Scott Brown.

Let's hope Dem leadership is smarter this time around, but don't hold breath.

[meegbear]

16. Links? I'd like to read 'em myself.

[JaneQPublic]

18. The media were wrong about Hillary being the Dem candidate in 2008

Their accuracy in prognostication leaves a lot to be desired. Until they do better at accurately telling what HAS happened, they should lay off trying to tell what WILL happen.

[Arugula Latte]

45. The same thing that happened to Hillary could happen to the Rethugs.

She was arrogant and over-confident about her pre-ordained slot as the nominee, and it backfired.

[southernyankeebelle]

20. Get up off your asses and go vote.

[yellowcanine]

21. The douchebaggers are doing everything they can to fire up traditional Democratic voters.

Watch the Hispanics in the Southwest, for example. The anti-immigrant shit may come back and bite the Republican Party and the douchebaggers big time. McCain is moving to the right on immigration to counter Hayworth. If Hayworth wins the Hispanics will flood the polls and boost the Democratic candidate. If McCain pulls it out he will have pissed off a lot of Hispanic voters and they may exact revenge on him at the polls. Nevada and is another place where the Hispanic vote could help Democrats.

[EC]

23. Thats what they were saying in 2006 and

2008 too- It's wishful thinking...


on a side note: I'm hearing remarks at work from my workmates that know I'm a Dem, that they like the new healthcare bill...they are indies (they say) one even said he was HAPPY with it...

[tom_paine]

24. Since they write the backstory of the Corporate Oligarchs and their corrupted "voting" machines, it

would not surprise me if that is exactly what happens, and it doesn't matter who votes for whom because it's all secretly counted proprietary software often routed through neocon "transfer points" and altered there, like Smartech.

If anyone thinks about blabbing, well, they can just remember the example of Mike Connell, eh?

I still would advocate voting, if only to participate in Reality TV and also just in case I am wrong about this.

[Michigan-Arizona]

37. +1000

[WilliamPitt]

25. They so badly want it to be true

But the 'Baggers will present the problem of a divided base, the Michael Steele mess is totally screwing up their fundraising, and if they filibuster the financial reform legislation, well...it'll be a trainwreck.

The Dems will lose seats, to be sure; something like 45 House districts elected Dems in 2008, but the majority of voters there also voted for McCain. The math isn't favorable, but I hardly expect to see a bloodbath.

[Ozymanithrax]

26. The media is betting on Obama's impeachment...

They are also carefully creating drama in order to keep people glued to their tubes.

[onenote]

28. link?

[Ozymanithrax]

30. Not a link, a prediction...Last time Republicans took over under a Democratic President...

We went to 24/7 investigations until the Bill Clinton caught his dick in his zipper, and then they impeached him.

That was the ultimate win/win situation for the media. Constant drama, high ratings. It played to the Republican's tactic of politics as war.

I predict that if Republicans win the House they will begin constant investigations to find something to impeach Obama for. It won't matter what it is. Hell, they even know that they can not get the Senate to uphold the Impeachment. But it is political theater and political war combined. That is what they do.

[Solomon]

42. Step away from the pipe.

They can't impeach Obama for just anything they choose.

[Ozymanithrax]

48. To Republicans, impeachment has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors.

I lived through the Clinton years. Republicans investigated him 24/7, until they found something. They made up a lot of shit on the way, but Clinton helped them in the end by doing something they all did. In the house all they need is a simple majority. These people will investigate Obama until they find something and then vote for impeachment.

It will probably begin with his birth certificate. They will do it, not because they believe it, but because a lot of their constituents have concerns and they want to set those concerns at ease. If they don't find something, the right wing spin machine will make stuff up.

This is the way they do business.

It won't matter if an impeachment is not approved by the Senate. The point is to destroy a political enemy. For Republicans, politics is war.

[HipChick]

27. The media also said that people would not vote for Obama because of the 'Bradley' effect

yeah ..he won by a landslide..

[ashling]

29. Even if the Republicans LOSE seats,

the story will be that they won. They will say that it was always just a game of expectations (smoke here) and that a loss was really a win (mirror there).
:puke:

[Bluenorthwest]

32. This is so lacking in facts, links and specifics

that it becomes that which it claims to decry.

[kentuck]

33. "Inside" media leaders believe country will be better with Repubs ...

..in charge of at least one branch of government. It may stop potential violence.

[liberal N proud]

34. The media is projecting

They keep repeating that using the mantra that if they repeat it enough times it will happen.

If people think government is gridlocked now, just wait. If the pukes win big in November, it will be a shootout between the White House and the GOPers. It will be a negative congressional session.

But then the media will just blame Obama going into 2012 and then they can take back the White House and start more wars and recessions.


:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[kentuck]

41. Good point.

They do project.

[Xenotime]

35. The GOP is seeing their party wither away.

[Bitwit1234]

36. Since the media is owned by republicans who else would they say are going to win

get real...There are not enough Americans out there to put that crap back in office. since the MSM covers ever spittle the GOP utters and you don't even hear a whisper from the other side, of course you would think the whole world thinks the GOP is wonderful.

And the Democrats are to blame. They had a chance to change the Media and they refused to do so...so what ever comes down is on their head.

[Gman2]

38. I dont give a shit how good they are sitting, it is time to improve our mandate.

It is moot, we toil, we strive, we beat ass. And when the baggers, and Rethugs are disheartened, and we are strong, we will push on. and on. And when we win this time, it becomes much harder year by year, to run neocons. Demographics will see us in power, till we are splintered by a new center left party. Till then, elections are ours to lose. And when the rethugs start spewing in earnest, Reagan bromides wont cut it. And when Obama calmly explains why their ideas are all juveline, and not well thought thru, and lectures them about reality, they will further be marginalized.

[cbdo2007]

39. Where are you seeing this?

I'm not seeing these polls or anything like that. Of course we'll lose some seats but that's to be expected.

[gulliver]

40. I think we have good politicians on our side now.

Nothing beats having a brilliant President and a bunch of really good politicians in our line-up. I think there are going to be some big surprises in store for the GOP the closer we get to the election. House GOP is made of straw.

[elocs]

43. In an off-year election, it will be about turnout. Democrats do not need to be wildly enthusiastic,

they just need to be bothered to get out and vote. It is typical for the party in power to lose seats in an off-year election, but it should be possible to keep those losses to a minimum.

That being said, I would hate to be a Democrat and go home and defend the billions and billions and billions of dollars that went to bailout big banks and big business when in comparison the average American Joe or Josephine who was hurting didn't get much. That's going to be a tough one.

[EFerrari]

46. Less than half of Americans even trust the media. n/t

[seattle_blue]

47. Instead of reporting to the masses

the media is simply trying to manipulate the masses. Everybody wants to be on the side that's winning. That's their playbook.

[B Calm]

50. Just have to make sure we get out the vote! We outnumber them!

[Juneboarder]

51. MSM = Misleading

Don't ever believe what's spewed from MSM; it's just trash.

[Odin2005]

53. Corporate Media psy-ops. Don't believe a word of it.

[Grand Taurean]

54. The media is owned by corporations

which the GOP supports.