On 11/1/10, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tommy come out from behind Michelle's fat spreading ass
>
> If anyone here was violent you would have been beaten up for fun and dead
> long ago
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Travis is a violent bully.
>>
>> On 11/1/10, Travis <baconlard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I can think of 533 PoS's that I would like to help join the unemployment
>> > line. I have a 2X4 handy too.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Cold Water <coldwater000@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> *Grim Dems await huge House losses*
>> >> By: Alex Isenstadt
>> >> October 31, 2010 04:53 PM EDT
>> >>
>> >> The last TV ads have been cut. The final polls have been conducted. The
>> >> end-of-campaign expenditures are being made.
>> >>
>> >> Now, for Democratic consultants and campaign officials who have plotted
>> >> and
>> >> strategized for months to preserve the embattled House majority,
>> >> there's
>> >> nothing left to do but sit and wait for the expected horrors of
>> >> Election
>> >> Day
>> >> to unfold.
>> >>
>> >> There is nearly uniform consensus among Democratic campaign
>> professionals
>> >> that the House is gone — the only question, it seems, is how many seats
>> >> they
>> >> will lose.
>> >>
>> >> While few will say so on the record for fear of alienating party
>> officials
>> >> or depressing turnout, every one of nearly a dozen Democratic House
>> >> consultants and political strategists surveyed expect a GOP majority to
>> be
>> >> elected Tuesday — the consensus was that Democrats would lose somewhere
>> >> between 50 and 60 seats.
>> >>
>> >> A senior party consultant who was on the low end with his predictions
>> said
>> >> the party would lose between 40 and 50 seats. On the high end, one
>> >> Democratic consultant said losses could number around 70 seats.
>> >>
>> >> All spoke to the grimness of the mood.
>> >>
>> >> "It sucks," said Dave Beattie, a Florida-based Democratic pollster who
>> is
>> >> working on a slate of competitive House races and who acknowledges that
>> >> the
>> >> lower congressional chamber is lost. "I'm resigned to the fact that it
>> >> sucks."
>> >>
>> >> While there was optimistic talk within party circles early this month
>> that
>> >> the electoral environment was improving for the party, the operatives
>> said
>> >> those conversations don't take place anymore.
>> >>
>> >> "If some Democratic consultant told you they are feeling better, they
>> must
>> >> have dropped some heavy drugs," said a senior pollster who is working
>> for
>> >> candidates in competitive races. "It's hard."
>> >>
>> >> The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week launched
>> >> something of a last-ditch offensive to save some of its incumbents,
>> >> purchasing airtime to defend endangered members like Iowa Rep. Dave
>> >> Loebsack, Illinois Rep. Bill Foster and New Jersey Rep. John Adler —
>> >> all
>> >> of
>> >> whom are highly vulnerable but whom party officials believe could
>> >> ultimately
>> >> prevail.
>> >>
>> >> The committee also sought to shore up incumbents who until recently
>> >> were
>> >> not thought to be in electoral peril: Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, Iowa
>> >> Rep.
>> >> Bruce Braley and North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre.
>> >>
>> >> Still, among those in the Democratic consulting class, there's a gloomy
>> >> acknowledgment that many of the incumbents the DCCC has spent millions
>> of
>> >> dollars to protect won't be coming back to Congress.
>> >>
>> >> "Everybody that is tied will lose, and everyone that is ahead by a few
>> >> points will lose because of the GOP wave," said one party media
>> consultant
>> >> who is involved in a wide array of House races. "There are going to be
>> >> some
>> >> surprises."
>> >>
>> >> Some strategists have resigned themselves to an election night that
>> >> will
>> >> bring an early end to the promising careers of Democrats they
>> >> shepherded
>> >> to
>> >> victories in 2006 and 2008.
>> >>
>> >> "In a wave election, part of the problem is that you feel powerless.
>> >> Everything I feel I know how to do, that I'm trained to do, I can't do.
>> >> And
>> >> that feeling is pervasive," said the pollster. "There's a sense that
>> >> there's
>> >> nothing you can do about it. When you know your friends are on the
>> >> chopping
>> >> block, it's hard."
>> >>
>> >> "There's nothing worse than talking to an incumbent member of Congress
>> >> who's been cut off by the DCCC and who has no money," said another
>> >> Democratic consultant who has worked on crafting some of the party's TV
>> >> ads
>> >> this cycle. "It's like talking to a dead man walking."
>> >>
>> >> But Nov. 2 will also bring a welcome end to a rough final stretch that
>> >> left
>> >> many party strategists frustrated. Some talked about having to switch
>> >> campaign strategies multiple times in hapless attempts to raise
>> >> rock-bottom
>> >> poll numbers.
>> >>
>> >> "It's a 24-hour labor," said John Anzalone, an Alabama-based pollster
>> who
>> >> works closely with the DCCC. "In 2006 and 2008, everything was going
>> your
>> >> way. This is brutal."
>> >>
>> >> There is ongoing debate within Democratic circles about when, exactly,
>> the
>> >> party lost its handle on the electoral environment. Some consultants
>> >> say
>> >> they realized they lost the House in early October, when it finally
>> became
>> >> apparent that incumbents couldn't move their poll numbers.
>> >>
>> >> But others say the electoral map hardened this spring, after the House
>> >> passed a health care bill that remains deeply unpopular among voters.
>> >> Democratic campaign officials say it is no accident that there are few
>> >> Democrats in moderate-to-conservative districts who have promoted their
>> >> support for the health care measure on the campaign trail, and most
>> don't
>> >> even acknowledge it.
>> >>
>> >> "To a lot of folks, it was a symbol of government," said Beattie, the
>> >> Florida-based pollster. "It's not about the content for most voters."
>> >>
>> >> Already, the finger-pointing is beginning. With outside conservative
>> >> groups
>> >> pouring millions of dollars into races across the country, some
>> operatives
>> >> singled out liberal interest groups for not engaging in the election.
>> >>
>> >> "If there's one person to blame, it's the liberal groups who said they
>> >> would get involved early but they didn't," said the media consultant.
>> >> "I
>> >> think they've been totally unhelpful."
>> >>
>> >> But, most of the consultants said, much of the post-election scrutiny
>> >> would
>> >> surround President Barack Obama and a White House political operation
>> that
>> >> over the past two years struggled to sell an ambitious agenda that
>> turned
>> >> out to be radioactive to a wide swath of the electorate.
>> >>
>> >> "Here's the part of this that bothers me the most: This is not an
>> >> embracing
>> >> of Republicans. It's a rejection of Democrats," said Andrew Myers, a
>> >> veteran
>> >> Democratic pollster who worked on several House campaigns.
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=03A44CBF-0C07-448A-99CB09FC8163E166
>> >>
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