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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashPost's Chris Cillizza invites only Republicans to make predictions in column.
We asked a few political types to send us their fearless predictions too. Here's a few.
* Tom Davis (former Virginia Republican Congressman): "Republicans pick up Senate seat in Hawaii. Charles Djou will pick up the pieces of a late, bitter, internal Democratic primary that has generational and ethnic complications. Without a Presidential race to galvanize and polarize voters, the race will be a local cat fight."
* Dave Carney (Republican media consultant and adviser to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott): "Wendy Davis will lose the Texas governorship by the same or slightly less margin than Bill White did four years ago." (White lost by 13 points.)
* Rob Stutzman (California-based Republican consultant): "Dan Schnur will become the first No Party Preference candidate to win statewide office under the new system when he wins the Secretary of State race. Schnur's victory will be deemed impossible under the old election system and his victory will be hailed as evidence that a political middle can emerge via top two general elections."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/30/the-fixs-fearless-2014-predictions/
DJ13
(23,671 posts)I hope this is not a clue. The media was very much for the Democrats in 2008 and 2012. Now they want to be on the Republican side. That makes me very nervous as the media always wants to be on the winning side. We have a ton of work to do in 2014.
brucefan
(1,549 posts)The press sided with democrats?my tv must've been on the fritz.
Well maybe exaggerated. However, I do believe we need to work hard for 2014.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)I call bullshit. The media tries to "create" the winning side and it's certainly not Obama and the Dems. Corporate conglomerates with many global tentacles control the media. Whose polices are more favorable to them? Not Democrats. Obama won in spite of the crusade against him.
PCIntern
(25,592 posts)House of Cards..
2 digit I.Q. there...