What today means: Dem loss: Shrug. GOP loss: Extinction

[lindysalsagal]

With everything that's been said about 2014, it's undeniable that the risks are all for the GOP. The Dems will get the senate back soon enough.

Ok, the GOP can do some damage to the courts and the economy, of course. Energy, immigration, education, and clean air and water will take some hits. More tax cuts for big business, rich get richer, more will go hungry. All true and all important.

But as far as the parties themselves go, a dem loss tonight doesn't mean much except that most of the open seats were in red states, and that dems actually had gains in red states. Bottom line for dems: We might lose the battle but the war is still ours.

However, if the GOP loses tonight, it's their last gasp. Say goodnight, Gracie. Stick a fork in them: They're done.

If they can't win tonight, they'll never win, again.

IMHO, if the GOP takes the senate tonight, (which might actually take weeks to be sure) they'll exact such painful reductions, they'll finish off the last of the GOP voters that McCain, Romney and Bush didn't lose.

The future is all blue: Young people, hispanics, women, and all people of color: This is the last chance the GOP has.

It's a fluke that all of the open seats are in red areas this time. They can't count on that in the future.

The "They're all the same: crooks" meme will wither under 2 years of GOP tyranny.

People will finally learn: Never. Trust. Republicans.

[villager]

1. "Welcome to the most unrepresentative Senate election since World War II"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/11/03/welcome-to-the-most-unrepresentative-senate-election-since-world-war-ii/

[Dawson Leery]

3. Thanks for posting

[lindysalsagal]

4. Great article. Thanks. Also, it has a good one minute explanation of tonight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/11/03/welcome-to-the-most-unrepresentative-senate-election-since-world-war-ii/

scroll down to the U.S. map video.

[upaloopa]

2. Now if Obama can keep them in check it will

be the greater thing he could do to piss them off. Imagine they rule two out of three parts of government and can't get shit out of it.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Yep. As if a R Senate would accomplish anything more than a blocked D Senate.

At least when the folk tell pollsters that their Congressional Approval is lower than ebola approval we will all know who to blame.

[Lancero]

6. That's assuming that they don't try pushing out more disinfranchisement laws.

[lindysalsagal]

7. I'm sure they will, and Obama will try to bargain.

Damage will be done. But it's not the direction the entire country is going: It's a function of our system and the snapshot of which seats are up for election. That's based largely on an arbitrary number of years of each tenure: 6.

[Autumn]

8. People will finally learn: Never. Trust. Republicans.

If people haven't learned that by now they never will.