I think a lot depends on what happens early next year. I want to believe these assholes will be punished bad in the mid-terms, but so many of those seats are solid red it may not make much of a difference.

that short memory thing can be defeated.

So, Boehner's primary is not very long from now.
I don't think Boehner will survive his next election, which is just 6 months away.

He's well funded though. I'm hopeful that McConnell will be defeated.

Probably won't last a month.

Sure people have short memories.

But starting from the top with Obama, the Democrats need to pound issues home. In particular, the current trajectory is for a chipping away at Social Security and Medicare with shutdowns and debt ceiling threats in the background as powerful GOP leverage

Obama and Democrats instead should highlight: first, the gerrymandority enjoyed by the GOP, with a focus on states like WI, MI, PA, and FL where Republicans have overwhelming advantages in House representations in states that trend blue in federal election voting. These states need a focus on STATE government elections, where the gerrymandering is decided

The fact that in response to the election of 2012, the shutdown and debt ceiling threat was the GOP's main response, planned many months beforehand, and not just some errant trend from a small teabagger minority

As a defacto leader of a group of approximately 200 in Ohio who have signed on to fight Gerrymandering.
However I am puzzled why you did not include Ohio in your list of states named. The article itself says Boehner is very unpopular across the country but again he is not elected from across the country but rather from his highly contorted district here in Ohio/ How ids he doing in his district?/ That is what counts and for these articles to continue to pretend that national preferences have much to do with which members of the US House gets elected in the states is hiding the truth and doing a disservice to our efforts.

and a very logical and necessary explanation.

Just one question? Why are you injecting reason into a conversation when you know darn well that the media prefers to compare all things in America to sports... Don't you understand? The score says we are winning! Facts be damned!

(Btw, thank you for fighting the good fight, especially in Ohio ) xxxx

What are you doing to accomplish this? Will you make phone calls, knock on doors, contribute money, recruit others to do these things , what??

your panties in a wad.

In the 2014 election!

wherever it exists and by which ever party does it would be a great start. If Ohio's political makeup was in proportion to its voter preference we would have 4 more dems and 4 less republicans. Considering that many undecided would vote dem after the twin fiascos brought on by the GOP , we might get more than 4 if no Gerrymandering existed here.

sounds like the way most election go with one party beating out the other by a few percentage points. is there any other indication that america has really learned anything?

how those numbers translate in comparison to the Democrats' 1.5 million advantage in total House votes in 2012 that resulted in a large Republican majority. Democracy has been gamed by Karl Rove, who for my money, is the biggest threat to democracy and liberty on the political landscape. He belongs in prison, not masterminding one of our major political party's strategy to corrupt every facet of government.

for their specific congressperson.

Numbers in reality are probably even worse for Republicans.

Do you think those batshit insane teabaggers are going to shut their pie holes and act normal till then?

Really??

They plan on shutting down the govt again as soon as this short funding bill runs out early next year and do another 20 plus billion hit on the economy while throwing 7 or 8 hundred thousand govt workers out on the street again.

They don't give a damn about any poll that goes against their toxic extremist religion. Its those skewed lib-rul polls again! LOL

They can do it on and off all year long right up until the election while Rush Limpballs and his minions on hate radio egg them on.

Reality has no power on true believers like Bachmann and Cruz. We must cut these anti american cultists out of politics like the cancer they are.

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