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Will Republicans Take the Senate?

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  • Will Republicans Take the Senate?

    Source: WashingtonPost

    All three major election forecasting models saw an uptick in the likelihood of Republicans winning the six seats they need to retake the Senate majority over the past week, movement largely due to the party's strengthened chances in Alaska, Colorado and Iowa.

    The most bullish model for Republicans is Washington Post's Election Lab, which, as of Monday morning, gives the GOP a 76 percent chance of winning the majority. Leo, the New York Times model, pegs it at 67 percent while FiveThirtyEight shows Republicans with a 60 percent probability. A week ago, Election Lab gave Republicans a 65 percent chance of winning the majority, Leo put it a 55 percent and FiveThirtyEight had it just under 55 percent.

    All three models give Republicans very strong odds of winning the open seats in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia as well as beating Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.). That would net Republicans five seats, one short of the number they need for the majority.

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    Let's see... all three major forecasting models: Washington Post at 67%, FiveThirtyEight at 60% and New York Times at 67%. So, you add up the three numbers - 67 + 67 + 60 = 194, and divide that by 3 for an average percentage of 64.6, which means that the Republicans have about an 83% chance of doing something REALLY STUPID before the election, once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Seriously, though, how likely do you think it is that the Republicans will actually take the Senate, and by how much?


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    Yes, the Republicans will be the Senate Majority
    42.86%
    6
    No, the polls are over-inflated, and Dems will still maintain Senate Control
    7.14%
    1
    It will be a tie
    7.14%
    1
    I really don't care
    42.86%
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    Last edited by Cow Poke; 09-29-2014, 12:17 PM.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

  • #2
    I think a lot of people are teed off at the democrats right now.

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    • #3
      Whoever wins, America loses. Unless by some miracle every single person in America decides to overturn the current political system and replace every single politician with people who aren't disgustingly corrupt moral cripples. Of course, that would require the majority of the American voting public to have more than half a brain between them.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Rational Gaze View Post
        Whoever wins, America loses. Unless by some miracle every single person in America decides to overturn the current political system and replace every single politician with people who aren't disgustingly corrupt moral cripples. Of course, that would require the majority of the American voting public to have more than half a brain between them.
        I am beginning to agree with this more and more.
        I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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        • #5
          Too many miscreants who are voting for their own benefit to change anything.
          That's what
          - She

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
            Too many miscreants who are voting for their own benefit to change anything.
            EGGzackly!
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Rational Gaze View Post
              Whoever wins, America loses. Unless by some miracle every single person in America decides to overturn the current political system and replace every single politician with people who aren't disgustingly corrupt moral cripples. Of course, that would require the majority of the American voting public to have more than half a brain between them.
              Ahhh, the fruits of democracy.
              Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

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              -Frederick 2, Holy Roman Emperor

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              • #8
                Unless they immediately nominate Jeff Sessions as majority leader they'll get precisely nowhere in doing anything useful.

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                • #9
                  Beginning to look like yes..... and Obama is helping the Democrats SO much!
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                    Beginning to look like yes..... and Obama is helping the Democrats SO much!
                    There's just not a whole lot of enthusiasm for voting Democrat this cycle, which will probably be the biggest factor. It's not so much that people will vote Republican rather than Democrat this time around, but that the people more inclined to vote Democrat will tend to stay away from the polls.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                      There's just not a whole lot of enthusiasm for voting Democrat this cycle, which will probably be the biggest factor. It's not so much that people will vote Republican rather than Democrat this time around, but that the people more inclined to vote Democrat will tend to stay away from the polls.
                      I think that, but Independents might break Republican moreso than they would have.
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Rational Gaze View Post
                        Whoever wins, America loses. Unless by some miracle every single person in America decides to overturn the current political system and replace every single politician with people who aren't disgustingly corrupt moral cripples. Of course, that would require the majority of the American voting public to have more than half a brain between them.
                        This is excessively cynical. We elect people who promise to do what we prefer. Those people then face orders of magnitude more particular issues and votes than their campaign materials ever dreamed of. So we try to elect people with good judgment. Alas, "good judgment" means "voting the way I would." If a constituency is tens of thousands of people, it's impossible to please them all, and often impossible to please even a simple majority. Calling people "corrupt" simply for failing to do the impossible is too harsh.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Epoetker View Post
                          Unless they immediately nominate Jeff Sessions as majority leader they'll get precisely nowhere in doing anything useful.
                          OMG! Jeff Sessions is the Shame of Alabama, as pith-poor a politician as could be found anywhere. The idea that he "represents" me turns my stomach - it would be impossible to find anyone who represents my views less than Sessions unless it's Richard Shelby. With this kind of leadership, it's no mystery why Alabama is one of the poorest, least educated, deepest red, collection of freeloaders of any state in the nation. Do we really WANT the nation to go straight to hell in a handbasket? Seriously?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by phank View Post
                            This is excessively cynical. We elect people who promise to do what we prefer. Those people then face orders of magnitude more particular issues and votes than their campaign materials ever dreamed of. So we try to elect people with good judgment. Alas, "good judgment" means "voting the way I would." If a constituency is tens of thousands of people, it's impossible to please them all, and often impossible to please even a simple majority. Calling people "corrupt" simply for failing to do the impossible is too harsh.
                            You kinda sorta left out the lobbyist effect.
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by TimelessTheist View Post
                              Ahhh, the fruits of democracy.
                              I think we were warned about this a long time back. Even though we are not a democracy, the same problem has come out to bite us.
                              Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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