Dang, but those grapes look really sour.
Think of the billions the parties must raise to elect a president in 2016. Consider the millions of paid and volunteer man-hours that will be devoted to this enterprise. The White House is the center of the partisan political universe, and Democrats and Republicans alike measure success or failure by their ability to win and hold the presidency.
Instead, maybe they ought to hope they lose. The surest price the winning party will pay is defeat of hundreds of their most promising candidates and officeholders for Senate, House, governorships, and state legislative posts. Every eight-year presidency has emptied the benches for the triumphant party, and recently it has gotten even worse.
Don’t get me wrong: Larry Sabato has a point. But it’s just as easy to say that the American people tend to be on an eight year cycle of Throw The Bums Out, with the bums switching off on a regular basis. Of course, when you put it that way then the efforts of people like Larry Sabato – and, to be brutally honest about it, myself – start looking a good deal less relevant…
I presume this is just the next step in preparing the battlespace for either Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or Elizabeth Warren to trump Hillary.
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I mean .. if 2016 is an obvious write-off anyway, then it becomes a great sop to the ignorant far-left wing of the party. (that is, most of the party)
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Sort of similar to how running McCain came to pass… and if any are offended by the idea of McCain as a “sop” .. a time of introspection may be in order.
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Mew
Oh, wouldn’t it be awesome if the DWS ran?
Its not that bad if your President is competent. Many of the losses in 06 can be attributed to stupid decisions made by the NRSC ( like wasting millions on Chafee instead of spending that money on Allen and Talent, failing to convince Burns to retire)
Keep in mind McConnell, and Grassley were both elected under Reagan ( and they’re still there)
And most of the seats the GOP picked up in 04 because of Bush aren’t going to be flipping any time soon ( South Dakota in particular)
Along with a significant number of seats won in 2010.