2014 US Congressional Election Results

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McConnell literally saying Republicans are on YOUR side.  So sad that people get taken in by these traitors.

EDIT: What the hell is he talking about with turning things around?  I didn't know that getting thousands more people covered in his state and years of continued job creation weren't part of turning things around.  He wants that Majority Leadership so bad so he can get started on destroying the country again. 

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RIP Blue dogs.

Good.

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RIP Blue dogs.

Good.

Bummer...

Sorry bro, but I don't want conservative Democrats having a legitimate faction in my party.  I'm far, far to the left of you and I frankly don't want our agenda shifted anymore to the center than it already is.

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Scott Brown is toast.

The carpet is seared and his bag of poo is burning away from the Democratic porch.

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Minimum wage in AR leads by 30%. What went wrong there?

The proposal was a raise to a whopping $8.50.  A non-joke state would be voting 90% for something so insufficient.

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Minimum wage in AR leads by 30%. What went wrong there?

The proposal was a raise to a whopping $8.50.  A non-joke state would be voting 90% for something so insufficient.

Minimum wage increases are extraordinarily popular just about everywhere. Just like background checks for gun purchases. People mostly support Democratic policies but are too misinformed to know it.

I would venture to guess that a disappointing number of people in middle America think those are somehow the result of moderate GOP bargaining, as opposed to Democrats wanting to impose Communism and ban guns.  The GOP is very good at getting people to believe things that are simply not true.

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Don't let the door hit ya, DINOs.

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Suppose a few eggs gotta break to make that omelet.  Colorado/Virginia are very disappointing, but Republicans are mostly winning in their own strongholds.  Disgusting to see all those Democratic candidates running from Obama's record like the cowards they are.  The Blue Dog coalition is finally gone, and maybe we can finally see the Democrats begin their transformation into a true leftist party.  

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Fairfax came in.  Warner's leading. Thank god.

Indeed.  Warner hung on by a thread there, but a win is a win at this stage.  

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Suppose a few eggs gotta break to make that omelet.  Colorado/Virginia are very disappointing, but Republicans are mostly winning in their own strongholds.  Disgusting to see all those Democratic candidates running from Obama's record like the cowards they are.  The Blue Dog coalition is finally gone, and maybe we can finally see the Democrats begin their transformation into a true leftist party.  

Sounds good, then the Blue Dogs can break away from the Democrats and begin their own party in the middle.

America's political infrastructure pushes us towards a two-party system.  People tend to drift towards one side or the other (to say the least).  As the relevant coalitions in the Democratic Party skew more and more to the left, moderates will become more and more open to leftist ideals.  Look how fast the business crowd got comfy with the Christian Right when the GOP realized that's who they had to appeal to in the 80's.  Same thing will happen with blue collar workers and suburbanites who lean left even if the overall message of the Democrats becomes more liberal.

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Moving the Dems to the left means nothing if you can't implement anything. We need to work at changing minds and turnout. The party elite needs to be swept out and replaced.

Yea... Sanders/Warren ticket in 2016, and if we must have Hillary, grab one of them for veep.  A Howard Dean type doesn't scare people like it did in 2004.

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Tonight's a disaster. Anyone who thinks "moving to the left" is the appropriate response to this lives in another reality.

All the Democrats did is run away from Obama.  Moving to the left is exactly what we have to do.  

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This is fairly horrible. I'm not going to eat for a week.

RIP, FF.  : (

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It's always darkest before the dawn. Our best days are still ahead of us.

Yea, and she better revert to the Hillary Clinton of 1993 instead of that imposter we saw in 2008 acting like she actually disagreed with the liberal Obama about anything.

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Tonight is brutal. Just brutal. I mean, we can't "win" every election but are there ANY bright spots for us tonight?

We have a star that's going to hang on in NH, your stereotypical horrible GOPer going down in flames in PA, and the the door is open for progressives to really take over the Democratic Party.  Those are the bright spots.

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We are back, America.  

Ugh.  Lovely.

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Tonight is brutal. Just brutal. I mean, we can't "win" every election but are there ANY bright spots for us tonight?

We have a star that's going to hang on in NH, your stereotypical horrible GOPer going down in flames in PA, and the the door is open for progressives to really take over the Democratic Party.  Those are the bright spots.

This is nuts. Progressives aren't a majority in this country, not even close, is the sad reality. This is a wake-up call like 1994 that we need to meet the electorate where it is or face an even worse fate.

Progressives are a bigger chunk of the electorate than you think, they just don't know it.  

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This is nuts. Progressives aren't a majority in this country, not even close, is the sad reality. This is a wake-up call like 1994 that we need to meet the electorate where it is or face an even worse fate.

Even as Pryor lost by 16, minimum wage is winning in a landslide. A progressive agenda can be tailored to be popular. There's a disconnect we need to bridge.

Exactly.  Pretending that progressive accomplishments are actually horrible, and constantly talking about how you have to work with the reprehensible Republicans isn't the way to do it.  Americans are for greater health coverage, for a higher minimum wage, for background checks on guns, for abortion rights, etc etc etc.  The Democrats have absolutely no idea how to sell their message.  They literally need massive GOP ****-ups fresh in the voters' minds to win anything.  That has to change, now.

EDIT: The GOP will do horrible things in their two years here, because that's their agenda.  They are there to continue the gravy train for the rich and the white and the well-off.  This invariably makes this worse for 90% of us.  They make out with the moneybags so they don't care.  Are the Democrats going to miss yet another opportunity to sell progressive policy to the American people in 2016?  Your move, Hillary. 

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Maffei did the tried and true tactic of having a typical Blue Dog voting record, and then losing a D+5 district by 18 points. Good riddance to that worthless trash.

That's the big silver lining here.  Enough with the Blue Dogs and their pandering to the right.  Be gone with ye!