can change the rules at anytime. They do not have to do it on the first day of Congress.

There is something wrong with both parties. No question the republicans are far worse, anti-women, anti- civil rights, pro- war, etc.

Two pretty significant trends they are bucking:

1) the tendency for dems to sleepwalk through non-presidential elections
2) the trend for the party in power in the white house to lose seats at mid terms

I think the 06 election very clearly was the building tidal wave to 08 from the massive backlash for the republican's being complete jackasses WITH power from 00 to 04. They managed to bully the country into reelecting Bush II despite his being a historically bad president, and once that election was over the full weight of him fell down on the Rs.

10 taught me a lesson. They threw a fit over losing in 08, and that alone was good enough for the people in this country to wave in one of the biggest classes of representatives ever and darn near got them the senate.

My lesson - this country will NEVER tire of finding reasons to elect jackass Rs. They had NO business making gains in 10, NONE, and they had one of the biggest waves in modern history.

With gerrymandering and it being the second term mid term, I will just be happy if they don't lose the Senate.

I knew, and the polling showed, they were going to have good days in 06, 08 and last fall.

Conversely, the polling was pretty clear the country had gone full in on stupid in 2010.

I was in denial of that. I thought they Rs would make gains, but I was in denial of how bad it was going to be.

I won't make that mistake again.

I knew BO was going to be in good shape, but that the Ds would only chip away in the House because the polling showed that.

Again, the lesson learned, the people in this county very much are looking for a reason to vote for republican jackasses.

At the federal or even state level, it is harder. But, most assuredly at the gerrymandered state level, they like eating shit sandwiches.

CO-6(Coffman-R)
IL-13(Davis-R)
MI-1(Benishek-R)
MI-3(Amash-R)
MI-11(Bentivello-R)
MN-2(Kline-R)
MN-6(Bachmann-R)
NV-3(Heck-R)
NY-11(Grimm-R)
NY-19(Gibson-R)
NY-23(Reed-R)
SC-7(Rice-R)
VA-2(Rigell-R)

Democrats need to target
WI-1(Ryan-R)- Barca-D
PA-7(Meehan-R)- Sestak-D
PA-8(Fitzpatrick-R)- Murphy-D
PA-12(Rothfus-R)- Altmire-D
OH-16(Renacci-R) - Bocierri-D
OH-14(Joyce-R)- Fingerhut-D
NY-27(Collins-R)- Hochul-D
MT-AL (Daines-R)- Lindeen-D

realizing how the 'no tax' repukes they voted in, if fact...raised taxes on those least unable to pay them.

Of course 'big business' made out like pigs in shit.

I'm about to post an article on this shortly.

Most people barely know who their state legislators are.

seats.

Gerrymandering will be the main obstacle in 2014, not the issues.

Historically the only time in the last half century that a president's party didn't lose lots of seats is Bill Clinton, and that was with republicans overplaying their hands with impeachment. And even then we only won around 9 seats, not 17+.