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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:41 PM
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What Scares Republicans The Most
Obama is brilliant. No, he's not perfect, but he is sure as hell very smart. And he's hired very smart people and ran a brilliant campaign.

He will pick a great administration and they will improve things in America. He will work with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Don't worry, we don't need 60 seats in the senate. The Republican senators next up on the election block are getting in line to work with the Democrats and Obama. Obama understands how Congress works. He knows how to get things done.

And we will see great things happen in the next 4 years, despite what you hear from the likes of Pelosi and Reid who are doing nothing but preemptive CYA and setting of expectations. But the agenda will be great and it will be done. Not everything will get done, but for once we will have competency in the administration, far beyond what we have seen in the last 30 years.

And it will be good. We will see 2012 with huge approval ratings and the next Presidential campaign will be completely boring because no Republican will be capable of standing up against Obama.

The next Electoral Map of the U.S. will be 100% blue.

And the Republicans know it.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:45 PM
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1. Of course they do
They're waiting for Obama to put the country back together so they can loot it again.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:47 PM
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2. The economy will be a problem for us.
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Marsala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:49 PM
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3. Even FDR and LBJ didn't paint the whole map blue
Unfortunately social wedge issues will stop us from ever pulling a 49 state landslide like Nixon or Reagan (at least, in the foreseeable future). But Obama will get as many states as is possible for any Democrat to now get.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:53 PM
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5. If we get young judges in the SCOTUS that will quiet them for a while.
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musiclawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:52 PM
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4. Not sure sure about your premises
You're basically saying GOP is worried about Obama efficacy. I think they're more pissed than worried. They're going to double down on the obstructionism and I'm not so sure you'll get as many GOP defections as you assume. The pressure to derail Obama will be enormous. That being said, I do concure that Obam will succeed by peeling off juts enoug GOP senators to pass all the big ticket items. Smaller items will be obstucted however.
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 06:55 PM
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6. Demographics terrify the Repukes
This country is getting younger, browner, better educated and more tolerant. Those are the parts of the populace that are expanding. Remember the RNC? Old white fundies as far as the eye could see with a smattering of white economic royalists. Rove's strategy has insured the death of the Repig party as we knew it, and maybe it's ultimate total demise.
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al bupp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 07:01 PM
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7. Not to mention ever increasing numbers of latino voters...
who trend dem, especially in this last election, too.
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