Romney's failing campaign hurting Republicans in congressional races
Source: The Guardian
The GOP not long ago stood to take control of the Senate, but key races are slipping away as party's top candidate stumbles
Mitt Romney's collapsing campaign is beginning to hurt Republican chances in key congressional races, risking their hopes of taking the Senate as a bastion against a second-term Barack Obama presidency.
More and more Republican congressional candidates are distancing themselves from their party's White House ticket as they are hit by ads from their Democratic opponents linking them to Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan.
With Romney still reeling from one bad poll after another in swing states, the Obama campaign opened up a new front on Friday, sending vice-president Joe Biden on a two-day visit to Florida to warn the elderly that a Romney-Ryan victory would mean new taxes on their social security benefits.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/28/romney-failing-campaign-hurting-republicans
Skittles
(153,182 posts)cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)to roost.
After all the moderate republicans who were in charge made the decision to nurture the more extremist base in the hopes of using it to gain more power in the long term, they didnt stop to consider that said base might actually be able to gain the seats using their own candidates rather than the candidates the moderates might want one day.
Still, I would be lying if I said that I was shedding any tears over this hurting the republicans in the elections because the truth is I am not crying and I feel that they deserve to lose majority control over both houses because they have proven themselves unfit as a party to run the country.
Maybe in 20 or 30 years when the new generation has grown older we can try it again.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)craigmatic
(4,510 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)lexw
(804 posts)of the Reagan years and Bush Sr.'s years...wow!...those maps were ALL red. The old time GOP'rs must be hating life. I think that's what's holding them back: they want things to be they way they were in the 1980s.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Absolutely NOTHING. Besides making Pres O a one term president, the only rules/laws that were passed and or not discussed a) Bush taxes for the rich; b) repealing ACA approx. 30 times; c) laws against women, especially her body parts; d) no jobs bill; e) no farm's bill; e) no Violence Against Women Act; f) no equal pay bill; g) no energy bill; h) no climate bill; i) laying off public workers and destroying unions; j) Citizens United; k) voter suppression and purging; l) cutting safety net programs, i.e. snap, child care, et al.,
I mean what the eff have they done? Collect their paychecks and have excellent health coverage that we, Americans pay for. They more days off with pay.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)This will create such a juxtaposition from the young, entitled punk, who visited them a few weeks ago & told them that repealing the healthcare law will help Medicare.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)I love it when a headline starts with "Romney's failing campaign." It makes me feel, as they say in Scotland, "mucho gusto."