Are you going to vote this Fall?/Do you think we'll retain Congress?

[onehandle]

Read carefully.

I left out the choice of losing the Senate, but not the House. I think this scenario is very unlikely.

Other is there for more complex situations. Explain.

[yurbud]

1. OTHER--I will vote for Dems, don't know the outcome, but it will be Obama & Congress's fault if they

lose

[xchrom]

2. +1

[Vincardog]

3. +2

[FrenchieCat]

5. -3

[Sherman A1]

17. +3

[FrenchieCat]

4. It will be the fault of the media that has worked so hard against

this administration...

as well, those who have helped the media along with their
constant self-fulfilling prophecy of announcing Dems as losers
of the 2010 election starting as far back as March of 2009,
through a series of disinformation as to what could realistically be achieved vs. what they themselves wished for, while ignoring
political realities, as well as anything positive coming out of this administration..... as that would get in the way of their constant condemnation for this admin not having turned the entire country around and on its head by now.

[AndyA]

8. -1.

The Democrats and Obama are not innocent in this situation, not by a long shot. Yes, the media played a part but the media didn't pick compromised Max Baucus to screw up health care reform, and the media hasn't prevented Obama from dealing with Don't Ask Don't Tell.

[Faryn Balyncd]

11. You're right. The media did not pick Baucus, nor Simpson, nor Paul Ryan & the rest.

:kick:



Contrary to some, the best way to support this administration is not to blindly enable capitulation.



:kick:

[yurbud]

14. Did the Obama administration TRY for what could realistically be achieved or pursue

a DLC, corporate friendly agenda?

On health care and later on finance reform, they pretty obviously backed weaker bills and twisted progressive arms to get on board instead of backing more progressive bills and twisting the arms of the Blue Dogs and DLCers, who are often more politically vulnerable and in need of the presidents help, as Blanche Lincoln's primary challenge showed.

If Obama had withheld his active help of her or over backed her opponent, the outcome could have been different or at the very least, the election would have been much closer.

[pscot]

6. +4

They will blame progressives, for not clapping loud enough. That script has already been written.

[AndyA]

9. +5. n/m

[Beartracks]

22. Sure, the Dem leadership might disappoint...

... or perhaps de-inspire a lot of Democrats. However, elections are won or lost based on the VOTES of the PEOPLE.

Dems don't vote, Dems lose seats. Dems the breaks.

I'm not saying anyone reading this is planning to abstain from voting. But if you know anyone sitting on the fence selfishly thinking, "Meh, Obama didn't keep his promise to me," then do what you can do convince them of their patriotic duty.

:patriot:

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[yurbud]

23. I think that would be a stronger argument if the Obama admin hadn't been making it since

they finished the inaugural address.

[hulka38]

35. +4

[and-con]

7. I will vote

I don't know what we will retain, but i know if I don't vote we are less likely to have anything.

[JanusAscending]

10. I will vote Democratic,

and.....drum roll...we will retain BOTH the Senate and the House!! So there!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. I will vote. We will retain Congress in 2010

Our majority will be smaller but this will NOT be a redux of 1994. The primary election of so many teabaggers has thrown enough (previously) "sure" pickups (or seat-holds) into question. The Republicans will have a daunting challenge to keep ALL of THEIR seats and then sweep an additional 39 Democratic-held seats in the House. Possible? Yes. Probable. No.
As for the Senate, I believe that it is mathematically impossible for them to take control of the Senate unless some Democrats switch parties (who?) and the Republicans sweep all of the Senate seats- of which a few are currently in question given the primary election of teabaggers for some of those races.
Nah. I really can't see it happening. People's favorability ratings for Republicans are still really low (aren't they still lower than for Democrats?) and there's been too little time since when they were last in office for people to completely forget how they (mis-)managed government the last time they ran it.

Saved for future reference.

[Dawson Leery]

15. Since there are

six seats that the GOP are going to lose, they actually need a 45 seat net gain to have a majority.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. Even better (for us)

:thumbsup:

The GOP is *favored* in this election pretty much only because the economy still sucks and, consequently, the voter's wrath is going to be more targeted towards the Democrats because we're in control of WH and Congress. With them being out of power (and we know how much they HATE to be out of power), their voters are also inevitably going to be much more more mobilized to vote.
The "Tea Party", however, has turned out to be somewhat of a *mixed* blessing for the GOP and, oddly enough, for the Democratic Party as well in all of this. All things considered, this election is NOT necessarily going to be the resounding victory for the GOP as it might have been if more "establishment" candidates had won their respective primaries over their "teabagger" rivals.
As long as we make a good final campaign push post-Labor Day and make a halfway decent GOTV effort, we should hang out to our Congressional majorities and keep "Speaker Bohner" from becoming a reality :puke:

[Dawson Leery]

13. Yes. And I will be working the phones and polls too.

[felinetta]

18. I will work the phones, too. And I can't vote cos this ad will not disappear and it covers

voting for retaining both house and senate. That is what I'd
vote for.

[bigwillq]

19. I will vote.

Don't know how the races will turn out. Not in the predicting business.

[Hekate]

20. We have some extremely important local issues up for grabs, but I always vote anyway

Have been a Dem all my life and that won't change with the wind.

Hekate

[Robbins]

21. Mark My words

I am voting.I am holding my nose here In Missouri and voting for Robin carnahan despite the fact she Is for keeping the bush tax
Cuts.This Is going to be a redux of 1982 not 1994.Republicans will win seats In the House and Senate but Democrats will keep the
majority.Granted Republicans will be able to fillerbuster everything In the senate.Obama's numbers are rising to the mid to late
40's In approval.This will Mirror 1982 when Reagan's number rose to 42 percent after being In the 30's which limited Democratic
gains on Election Day.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

24. I will vote Democratic this fall - but I'm having a hard

time getting interested in getting involved in any campaigns.

[saltpoint]

25. I'll be voting Democratic up and down the ballot

and expect Democrats to retain the House and the Senate.

[Zavulon]

26. I will vote in 2010. As for 2012, that remains to be seen.

If my taxes go up another dime (I'm a smoker, so they already have under Obama), I'll stay home in 2012. Any form of amnesty for illegals, I'll stay home. I have no job and my employer called me the day the health care bill was rammed through to let me know that was the death blow in terms of me or anyone else he laid off getting their jobs back, so I'm past the point where "hope and change" is doing me a lot of good.

In answer to your poll, I went with the second option.

[Merlot]

27. I can't wait to vote! Going to vote to legalize small amount of MJ in CA!

That's motivation to get many to the polls. I think the same thing will happen as with prop 8, it will pass and there will be attempts to overturn it. No matter what happens, it will be a full on debate and I welcome that.

[Phx_Dem]

28. The idiot who is not going to vote, should have to post his user name

so we all know who he/she is. That person is not allowed to complain or negatively comment on anything.

If you can't be bothered to vote, you have to give up your license to whine.

[handmade34]

32. +1

no one should choose not to vote!!

[Arkansas Granny]

29. Other - I'll vote Democratic, but I don't know the outcome.

[MrSlayer]

30. I'm voting Democrat as always. I don't have a good feeling about holding Congress though.

The people in this country are willfully ignorant, susceptible to propaganda and easily led. Couple that with their extremely short memories and it spells bad news. The Democrats have to pull their heads out of their collective asses and go on the offensive, something they never seem to be able to do.

[pstokely]

34. Still 2 months to go

things might get better or worse, they may not even remember now in 2 months

[seaglass]

31. I am voting for Niki Tsongas for ONE vote - the vote against the war supplemental.

I think she is a great representative but this is the vote I cared about above others.

I am very worried for her. There is a lot of anger against Dems and Obama in my area.

[Aramchek]

33. you're really not getting the results you want in all these polls, eh?

:rofl: