What will be the biggest issue of 2014?

[Joe Republic]

You people are all SERIOUSLY overestimating the American political narrative.  Whatever news makes it past Kim & Kanye, Miley Cyrus et al and into the water cooler conversation will be something like some piece of honesty Obama was overheard saying in confidence or what some interchangeable brain-dead R-TX says each month.

[IceSpear]

Obamacare.  The general perception of Obamacare could drive the midterms anywhere from Republicans taking the Senate to Democrats taking the House.

The Democrats are not taking the House whether ObamaCare is doing great or not. The House is gone until at least 2022.

That's not necessarily true. If an election was held right after the shutdown it's likely Democrats would've taken the House. But yes, it's very unlikely.

[pbrower2a]

Economic inequality.

The GOP wants cheap labor, and will seek to eviscerate labor unions. 

[IceSpear]

Economic inequality.

The GOP wants cheap labor, and will seek to eviscerate labor unions. 

Are there any unions left to eviscerate? Seems like the country is resigned to letting Wal-Mart be their new ruler.

[Blue3]

For those saying Obamacare... the big issue of the moment is hardly ever the big issue 6 months from now.

Remember when the deficit used to be a thing?

[Deus Naturae]

Voter suppression in a number of states, immigration, gay marriage and the War in Afghanistan will be the big 4 issues. The economy won't be an issue since unemployment is significantly decreasing while the GDP rate is 9% higher than it was in January of 2009.

I don't think voter suppression will be an issue. I mean, it's not like the Dem candidate is going to propose prohibiting states from enacting voter suppression methods of the nature we've seen recently. I think the War in Afghanistan will only be a major issue if the GOP nominates Paul.

Anyway, I also think that health care will be a major issue, as well as possibly foreign policy depending on the nominees.

If you look around, it's much more active than just in North Carolina and Texas now. Ohio has 2 voter restrictions bills currently on Kasich's desk and the legislature plans to pass more through this month, then there's Iowa (if Repubs. can win back the State Senate), Kansas (where one of the OH bills originated from), Pennsylvania, possibly Montana, formerly Florida.....are you noticing a trend? All GOP led states for the most part and with the elections coming up, stations besides MSNBC will start covering this more and more and some of these Governor's and state legislatures will face voter backlash. That's what it shows. Disenfranchising voters hurts Republicans in the long run and could be another Democratic opportunity to capitalize and attack these laws.

Yeah, I misread the thread title, I agree with what you said.

[H. Ross Peron]

Hopefully income inequality.  Probably healthcare though, I'm hoping Obamacare is seen as at least somewhat of a success, but to most on the right it will always be awful.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

It's rather clear that it will be Obamacare.