Mid-Term Musings

A few hours before we start to see election returns from the mid-term elections and a few things rattle around in my head:

I'll believe it when I see it - I've seen the polls and I've seen the Washington Post, CNN, and New York Times all rate the probability of the republicans taking the senate at somewhere between 70% to 98%. I recall polls all showing a tight race between Obama and Romney in 2012 too. The democrats still have a lead in demographics and analytics which is what won the 2012 race for them when by all historic measures, Obama's first term was a dismal failure and he should have been trounced. Maybe the republicans will take the senate. Maybe this will be a wave election like 2010. However, the republicans have yet to prove they understand big data and social media. The republicans also have great aim when shooting themselves in the foot. I'll believe a big night for the GOP when I see it and not until then.

Don't say stupid stuff - If the GOP takes the Senate, I wonder what Mitch McConnell will have to say. Hopefully he won't say something stupid like he did in the 2010 mid-terms when instead of making comments about using the republican congressional momentum to work for the benefit of the American public, McConnell instead stated that the GOP would work to make Obama a 1-term president. How did that work out? The stupidity of that remark confounds me to this day.

Win, serve your time, then go home - I'd vote for almost any candidate who is committed to enacting term limits on congress.

Gerrymandering, it's been here all along - It is funny how democrats and their friends in the media have suddenly discovered gerrymandering as if it was something the republicans just authored and just started doing. Democrats gerrymander as do republicans. It only makes the news however, when it hurts the democrats.

Crime pays - If Scott Walker loses, it will be a crime...literally a crime, just like when Ted Stevens had his senate seat in Alaska taken from him in 2008. The democrats play hardball, there is no question about it - laws and ethics be damned.

Eric Holder on the scene - Eric Holder announced that DOJ was sending people to monitor polling stations for the mid-terms. I wonder if he is sending the thugs from the New Black Panther Party who stood by with clubs as people went to vote in Pennsylvania in 2008? Maybe Louis Lerner will be there harassing conservatives because there is not a smidgeon of corruption in the IRS and Holder's DOJ is doing everything they can to prove it...no matter what the evidence says.

Obama, we have a problem... - The republicans can be as maddening as the democrats, but for different reasons. I hope they take the senate, if for no other reason, to show Obama just how badly his policies have failed the American people and that we need a new direction. A little humility would go a long ways for Obama. It's a shame he's not the leader her thinks he is.