I think many Democrats saw the mid-term election results coming.....

[FrenchieCat]

......as the Corporate News media kept insisting we would lose the senate for at least the last 5 months!

Could Democrats have done something about it? Maybe but maybe not!

Of course, we should agree that Democrats were a big part of the problem to begin with! Cowering Democratic candidates running from Pres. Obama's records cause the corporate media told them to (joke's on them, since most who did that lost), Young folks not voting (except for voting for contestants on the Voice), while too many believe that their votes don't matter anyways, and the rest only come out to vote for Presidential elections! Add to that, 2010 redistricting, repeated emotional breathless and scary corporate news coverage of Ebola and ISIS as the October surprise (read as the fault of the big black boogieman/ President) and Obama’s often reported "pummeling" poll numbers (no worse than Ronald Reagan around the same time in his presidency and wayyyy higher than congress) certainly didn't hurt!
As well, most Presidents in the midterm election of their last two years tend to lose the senate--see story). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-hobratsch/the-secondterm-midterm-pr_b_6072276.html

Soooo, the GOP cleverly ran against the Boogieman Prez without being questioned about the facts and math of a stronger economy, lower unemployment numbers, healthcare for the poor (who we were paying within our premium at the emergency room level), lower gas price, and a record breaking stock market (as those issues were not highlighted by your paid and bought for corporate owned (not at all Liberal....not even MSNBC owned by Comcast) media. …and Democratic candidates were too busy running from Obama (as directed) to bother to mention any of those accomplishments!

If we understand that one of the elephants in the room is large but quite simple; a majority of White folks in this country are deathly afraid of becoming the Minority (which is coming anyways), and have, since President Obama was elected. These are folks who will gladly vote with the Corporate party especially if it means that the lower socioeconomically disadvantaged minorities can stay contained!

Look….Republican votes are made up of Christians who want to impose their religion on the country, White Southerners who automatically vote Republicans and have been taught to hate Gobermint (although ironically Red states get the most assistance from the gobermint), Those who want to identify with the party of the rich with hopes that one day they might be rich (LOL!), folks trained to hate on their neighbor in order to feel superior to anybody, and older folks who live on fixed incomes(SS & Pensions) that makes them comfortable and figures since they got theirs, others should just do what they did (even if circumstances are not the same)…..
These folks vote like clockwork!

[truedelphi]

1. But the flip side of yr last paragraph is that

Many of the votes inside the Democratic Party are from those who only care about Wall Street's recovery, and only care about their piece of bread being buttered.

Sure, those Democrats will not inflict their religion on us, but they also haven't stopped fracking, or ended the endless wars, or brought about a true recovery.

When someone like Letterman tries to assure us that unemployment is "6 percent" and that voters will take that into account - well, he doesn't get it.

And granted, having a leader who can walk to a podium without choking on a pretzel is rather kuhl, (especially after eight years of George W), that fact still doesn't help people whose lives have been shattered by the Politicians of both Parties who happily and greedily have destroyed the middle class.

Those hammered and now downwardly mobile people, who cannot even be reached to get out the vote, as their phones are disconnected, those people are not coming to the polls any more.

[FrenchieCat]

2. And yes.....there are those who don't vote because they believe both parties

are not worth the effort...or should not be rewarded with their vote. I can't argue that!

[FrenchieCat]

3. Here was the "Set-up".....written 10 months ago!

Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year
A definitive guide to the 2014 elections from our new columnist.
By LARRY J. SABATO
January 06, 2014

Another midterm election beckons, and over the next 10 months we’ll see headlines about a thousand supposedly critical developments—the “game changers” and the “tipping points.” But we all know there aren’t a thousand powerful drivers of the vote. I’d argue that three factors are paramount: the president, the economy and the election playing field. And, at least preliminarily, those three factors seem to be pointing toward Republican gains in both houses in the 2014 midterms.

Why? (read more)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/midterm-elections-republicans-really-could-win-2014-101802.html#.VFqRWvnF_a4

[truedelphi]

4. You have to also factor in that only 29% of people in this "liberal" state

Even bothered to vote.

I have been tabling on a local issue, and people told me up front that ever since the meme of "Lesser than Two Evils" came about, they began realizing the game is rigged.


All that Lesser of Two Evils has ended up meaning is that we have a diminished and almost non-existant middle class.

People do not want Lesser of Two Evils. They want a real choice between two parties, and not the Centrist One Big Money Party that is all we have going on these days. (Except perhaps in college towns, Vermont, and Oregon.)

[FrenchieCat]

5. Guess will have to wait and see when the

Revolution finally happens...
But I bet there will still be two sides again after everything is said and done...at least!