56% do not want repeal of the ACA.

[Conservative]

Why then are red states like NC closing voting centers so those who do not drive must take a two hour bus trip to vote. If that is not making it harder to vote then what is? Why do conservatives hate Absentee ballets so much when it is so easy? I know why and so do you. It hurts liberal voters. No other reason.

I have no idea if you are accurate or even what you are talking about N. Carolina had a Democrat Governor until January 2013. Not sure why you care about what is going on in North Carolina and what leftwing publication did that information come from? North Carolina cut a week off the early voting but still has early voting, God forbid, North Carolina initiated strict voter ID laws, God forbid.

Here are the other highlights which liberals seem to hate. No more stealing elections?

*shortens early voting by 1 week,
*eliminates same day registration and provisional voting if at wrong precinct,
*prevents counties from offering voting on last Saturday before the election beyond 1 pm,
*prevents counties from extending poll hours by one hour on election day in extraordinary circumstances (like lengthy lines),
*eliminates state supported voter registration drives and preregistration for 16/17 year olds,
*repeals voter owned judicial elections and straight party voting,
*increases number of people who can challenge voters inside the precinct, and
*purges voter rolls more often.

What happened prior to early voting and where does personal responsibility lie in your world? Democrats will just have to get their vans our earlier and maybe buy a few more meals or give out a few more cigarettes

 

[James D Hill]

I have no idea if you are accurate or even what you are talking about N. Carolina had a Democrat Governor until January 2013. Not sure why you care about what is going on in North Carolina and what leftwing publication did that information come from? North Carolina cut a week off the early voting but still has early voting, God forbid, North Carolina initiated strict voter ID laws, God forbid.

Here are the other highlights which liberals seem to hate. No more stealing elections?



What happened prior to early voting and where does personal responsibility lie in your world? Democrats will just have to get their vans our earlier and maybe buy a few more meals or give out a few more cigarettes

All BS my friend. It is just an attempt to make it harder to vote. That's the bottom line. Nothing can change that fact and the SCOTUS has already thrown several out and they have a conservative majority. Are they wrong? 5 to 4 conservatives.

 

[Conservative]

All BS my friend. It is just an attempt to make it harder to vote. That's the bottom line. Nothing can change that fact and the SCOTUS has already thrown several out and they have a conservative majority. Are they wrong? 5 to 4 conservatives.

Right, I posted the actual information from the bill. Your opinion doesn't have a lot of credibility.

 

[James D Hill]

Right, I posted the actual information from the bill. Your opinion doesn't have a lot of credibility.

The fact is conservatives are motivated to make it harder to vote because conservatives are more reliable voters than liberals. That is the bottom line and many conservitives have admitted to it. One did it on The Today Show and was fired for it.

 

[James D Hill]

I have no idea if you are accurate or even what you are talking about N. Carolina had a Democrat Governor until January 2013. Not sure why you care about what is going on in North Carolina and what leftwing publication did that information come from? North Carolina cut a week off the early voting but still has early voting, God forbid, North Carolina initiated strict voter ID laws, God forbid.

Here are the other highlights which liberals seem to hate. No more stealing elections?



What happened prior to early voting and where does personal responsibility lie in your world? Democrats will just have to get their vans our earlier and maybe buy a few more meals or give out a few more cigarettes

And the conservatives need to hand out more drinks. Why make it harder to vote? We should be making it easy. Why do conservatives always want to screw over the poor? Oh I know why. They vote liberal. That is a fact jack and you can spin it all you want.

 

[clownboy]

The fact is conservatives are motivated to make it harder to vote because conservatives are more reliable voters than liberals. That is the bottom line and many conservitives have admitted to it. One did it on The Today Show and was fired for it.

Do you even bother to read what you post? If conservative voters are more reliable and liberals far less so, why would conservatives have to do anything other than just allow them to be themselves? There's probably a community college near you that might help with your demonstrated history and logic shortfalls.

 

[pogomutt]

Here's a list of mission goals from the Kaiser Family Foundation: Our Programs | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation It's the type of polling entity we'd expect completely unbiased data from...right?

 

[James D Hill]

I have no idea if you are accurate or even what you are talking about N. Carolina had a Democrat Governor until January 2013. Not sure why you care about what is going on in North Carolina and what leftwing publication did that information come from? North Carolina cut a week off the early voting but still has early voting, God forbid, North Carolina initiated strict voter ID laws, God forbid.

Here are the other highlights which liberals seem to hate. No more stealing elections?



What happened prior to early voting and where does personal responsibility lie in your world? Democrats will just have to get their vans our earlier and maybe buy a few more meals or give out a few more cigarettes

Those are all bad things that make it harder to vote. Why are conservatives more interested in taking away rights that giving them. That is anti freedom.

 

[James D Hill]

Do you even bother to read what you post? If conservative voters are more reliable and liberals far less so, why would conservatives have to do anything other than just allow them to be themselves? There's probably a community college near you that might help with your demonstrated history and logic shortfalls.

Please don't play stupid my friend because I am sure you are not. It is a known fact that when turnout is low the conservatives win. When it is high the dem's win. That has been true for 75 years.

 

[Conservative]

Those are all bad things that make it harder to vote. Why are conservatives more interested in taking away rights that giving them. That is anti freedom.

These are the things that protect the integrity of the vote. By the way

Generic Calendar/Clock - Countdown to Jan 20, 2017 in Washington DC

 

[vasuderatorrent]

24% want a GOP plan

I want to read that plan.

 

[vasuderatorrent]

GOPs are noted for being against everything and standing for nothing,

That's not exactly fair. Democrats did the same thing in 2006. Their goal as a party was to hate Bush. There is some advantages to individual politicians when they are in the minority party. They don't have to stick their neck out for anything and they can complain about any action taken by the president from the opposing party. This sounds very lazy but it's actually a brilliant political strategy.

I think it's more annoying than anything else. This is not a new thing. Presidents have been hated by their opposition in congress since George Washington. It should be invigorating that we live in a country where these people aren't getting their heads chopped off for speaking out against their leader. It's annoying but it should also be reassuring to be reminded how civilized we are as a nation.

 

[Linc]

That's not exactly fair.

My comments were made on March 24th to Velvet Elvis--ever speak with him--he's like Vance Mack's twin.
He point-blank defended no Health Care plan should be put out for repeal and replace by the GOP, just repeal.

Try staying more up-to-date than cherry-picking 34 days ago--sorry for the bluntness.
I really don't care about 2006 either.

I care more about what will happen to my nieces and nephews and their children going forth .

 

[Jerry]

The Kaiser poll found out that even though the ACA is not popular only a minority of Americans want the ACA repealed. Only about 20% want to go back to the way it was and 24% want a GOP plan. 56% of Americans want it fixed and this BS of repealing it altogether is not going to be a winning ticket for the GOP. So what is the right wings ideas? We really would love to know.

Both sides want single-player, but both sides want to be the only side to institute it.

 

[vasuderatorrent]

I really don't care about 2006 either.

I care more about what will happen to my nieces and nephews and their children going forth .

The minority party will do the same thing in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 and until the end of time. Their goal as a party will be to hate the incumbent president of the opposing party. There is some advantages to individual politicians when they are in the minority party. They don't have to stick their neck out for anything and they can complain about any action taken by the president from the opposing party. This sounds very lazy but it's actually a brilliant political strategy.

I think it's more annoying than anything else. This will not stop happening, ever. Presidents will continue to be hated by their opposition in congress way after Barrack Obama is a faint memory. It will be good for your nieces and nephews that they will still be living in a country where these people aren't getting their heads chopped off for speaking out against their leader. It will be very annoying in the future but it should also be reassuring to be reminded how civilized we are as a nation.

Some things never change.

But maybe you can waive your magic wand and things will be different in the future. Do you have an extra magic wand laying around?

 

[vasuderatorrent]

Both sides want single-player, but both sides want to be the only side to institute it.

If that's true, republicans are wasting a golden opportunity. If they were unified about implementing single payer, they wouldn't need all the democrats. They would only need a handful and they'd have them all in about 3 seconds.

 

[Jerry]

If that's true, republicans are wasting a golden opportunity. If they were unified about implementing single payer, they wouldn't need all the democrats. They would only need a handful and they'd have them all in about 3 seconds.

The repoblicans cant support single payer untill a republican is president. Whichever party is in power is the party which gets the credit. Should this happen, democrats will come out of the woodwork against single payer.

 

[Linc]

Are you saying that Republicans must control the House, the Senate and the Presidency to go along with single payer?
So that the GOP gets credit?

The repoblicans cant support single payer untill a republican is president.
Whichever party is in power is the party which gets the credit.
Should this happen, democrats will come out of the woodwork against single payer.

Without 60 House Republicans, there would be no Civil Rights Act.
As well, the GOP House Minority Leader was instrumental in getting GOPs to break the filibuster from Southern Con Democrats .

 

[Linc]

I want to read that plan.

The GOP refuses to put any plan in an official working committee, to eventually be sent to the floor for a REPLACE.
All they have are bits and pieces of multiple plans in the RSC, and they are the Majority party?
We ARE doomed to inaction with THIS House as they are in election mode 24/7/365 .

 

[Perotista]

The GOP refuses to put any plan in an official working committee, to eventually be sent to the floor for a REPLACE.
All they have are bits and pieces of multiple plans in the RSC, and they are the Majority party?
We ARE doomed to inaction with THIS House as they are in election mode 24/7/365 .

Linc, I’ll try to leave my personal feelings of my abhorrence to the ACA out of this. I think until after the November elections the Republicans will try to ride the negative connotations of the ACA and the oppose numbers to it in the polls. Most Republicans are not interested in fixing it, they want it gone. The ACA is a Democratic Party problem, not theirs, not America’s. Their feeling is the Democrats passed this thing on their own, they can fix it on their own, that is if they can. You and I both know that is impossible as long as the Republicans control the house. Oh, the Republicans may offer a fix or two if they see what is to be fixed as a major flaw which if fixed they could obtain votes from the fixing and make the Democrats look bad.


As long as over half of all Americans oppose the ACA, the GOP will ride that train. Why offer a plan of their own, that would or might, depending on the plan take the focus off the ACA and bring it onto their plan. Politically in the search for votes, to obtain control of the senate, let the Democrats continue to drive the ACA train. They hope sooner or later it will derail. Then the Republicans can step in as the fixers. This is just a quick synopsis of what I think is going on. I could be totally wrong, but again I think both you and I know that most of the frame work of the ACA will probably have to remain in place. So in a way, even with repeal, the Democrats have won on this as the law goes and what will come after, but they could very well lose at the polls.

I notice the Democrats, at least on this site cite the fact that the majority of Americans want the ACA fixed and not repealed. Although that varies by whomever is doing the polling. But when one of those 53/54% of Americans totally opposed to the ACA goes to the ballot box, whom do you think he will vote for. For a Republican who wants the law repealed or a Democrat who says mend it, don’t end it. In his mind, at the forefront of the voters brain is that he is opposed, the fact he may want it fixed instead of repealed, is deeper inside his brain and is speaking with a whisper, not a bull horn.

 

[Linc]

I notice the Democrats, at least on this site cite the fact that the majority of Americans want the ACA fixed and not repealed. Although that varies by whomever is doing the polling. But when one of those 53/54% of Americans totally opposed to the ACA goes to the ballot box, whom do you think he will vote for. For a Republican who wants the law repealed or a Democrat who says mend it, don’t end it. In his mind, at the forefront of the voters brain is that he is opposed, the fact he may want it fixed instead of repealed, is deeper inside his brain and is speaking with a whisper, not a bull horn.

Turn-out, Turn-out, Turn-out--DEMs won't get fooled again in this election.
Cotton has lost his lead in Arkansas because of Medicaid Expansion, which you don't put stock in as I do.
As much as I want DEMs to win these Southern Senate seats,
GOPs not taking Medicaid Expansion is hurting millions of people and costing almost a million associated jobs, including 76,000 in your GA.
As always, we'll see who is correct in December after the Louisiana run-off .

 

[Perotista]

Turn-out, Turn-out, Turn-out--DEMs won't get fooled again in this election.
Cotton has lost his lead in Arkansas because of Medicaid Expansion, which you don't put stock in as I do.
As much as I want DEMs to win these Southern Senate seats,
GOPs not taking Medicaid Expansion is hurting millions of people and costing almost a million associated jobs, including 76,000 in your GA.
As always, we'll see who is correct in December after the Louisiana run-off .

Exactly, personally I don't care who wins in what states. Ideally the outcome would have McConnell losing in KY and the Republicans picking up enough seats to dispose of Reid as Senate majority leader. But I have been surfing polls, here is some interesting number in reference to party affiliation from both Pew and Gallup. Now this is all national, no one knows if this means anything at the state level, it probably does in some states and doesn't in others. But both polling firms seems to be saying the same thing.

Party affiliation, a comparison of two different polls
Pew 6 April 2014………………………………………Gallup 6 April 2014
Republican 27%..............................................25%
Democrat 27%................................................29%
Independent 42%............................................45%
Independent lean Republican 15%..................16%
Independent lean Democrat 12%....................14%
Total Republican including leaners 42%...........39%
Total Democrat including leaners 39%..............43%

If you take the margin of error of plus or minus 3 points, each poll seems to mirror the other. With Pew this means the Democrats may be slightly ahead 42-39 taking the margin of error into consideration and with Gallup, the Republicans could be ahead 42-40, again taking the margin of error into consideration. But one thing is for sure, the Democrats 5 point advantage they had in party identification in November of 2012, has pretty much vanished and the two parties are very close to being even. As of 6 April anyhow.

 

[Linc]

If you take the margin of error of plus or minus 3 points, each poll seems to mirror the other. With Pew this means the Democrats may be slightly ahead 42-39 taking the margin of error into consideration and with Gallup, the Republicans could be ahead 42-40, again taking the margin of error into consideration. But one thing is for sure, the Democrats 5 point advantage they had in party identification in November of 2012, has pretty much vanished and the two parties are very close to being even. As of 6 April anyhow.

I haven't looked at RCP today yet--they have some pretty good stuff behind the scenes in Senate, House and Gubernatorial races.
With their 50-state breakdowns on polls, I get a much better feel.
Such as Gardner in CO taking the expected hit on his "personhood" support, something even Mississippi voted down.

And we still haven't seen the GOP primaries, so that's why I think the election is still in the bottom of the third, GOPs 4-0, not linked to the Senate.
As well, you've lived long enough to know that events overseas such as Putin/Ukraine can and will affect our elections .

 

[Perotista]

I haven't looked at RCP today yet--they have some pretty good stuff behind the scenes in Senate, House and Gubernatorial races.
With their 50-state breakdowns on polls, I get a much better feel.
Such as Gardner in CO taking the expected hit on his "personhood" support, something even Mississippi voted down.

And we still haven't seen the GOP primaries, so that's why I think the election is still in the bottom of the third, GOPs 4-0, not linked to the Senate.
As well, you've lived long enough to know that events overseas such as Putin/Ukraine can and will affect our elections .

Yeah, I know about things happening overseas. But what do people want the president to do? I think I would feel better if he stayed a bit more quiet. In reality being the Ukraine is situated where it is and is in the Russian sphere of influence, perhaps it is time to just lay this fact out on the table. I don't know.

I am still of the mind a GOP pick up of 3-4 seats, I think WV, MT, SD are three that are fairly close to being a sure thing. But then it gets dicey. AR, LA, NC, AK, are 50-50 shots for the GOP, in AR and LA, the delay of the pipeline may have tilted those states into the GOP column. Then there is KY and GA, the Republicans down here are worried sick that they might lose to Michelle Nunn. Behind the scenes they are trying hard to discourage primary voters from voting for Broun, Gingrey or Kingston. They seem to want Handel or Perdue.

Colorado and Michigan, throw in Iowa and NH, interesting to watch, but in the end we will watch the Democrat win. Yep, the GOP primaries may just bloody whomever wins in certain states enough to make sure the Democrats wins and then there is always the foot in mouth disease the Republicans have. I have no doubt one or two of them will say something so stupid that it costs them another senate seat or two. Remember 2012 with Aiken and Mourdock. I wouldn't be surprised if in the House the Republicans pick up 4 or 5 seats. I do not think they will lose ground like they did in 2012.

Oh on foreign policy, Obama approval rating is at 38.8% approval vs. 52.6% disapproval, today RCP. vs. his over all approval rating of 43.3% with a disapproval of 52.3%. On the economy it is 40.6% approval, 55.4% disapproval. All of these are dynamic and they change daily, just 2 or 3 days ago the president's overall approval rating had rose to 44.7%. But as long as his approval ratings is below 45%, these midterm election have a habit of biting the party in power real hard in the rear.

 

[Linc]

Oh on foreign policy, Obama approval rating is at 38.8% approval vs. 52.6% disapproval, today RCP. vs. his over all approval rating of 43.3% with a disapproval of 52.3%. On the economy it is 40.6% approval, 55.4% disapproval. All of these are dynamic and they change daily, just 2 or 3 days ago the president's overall approval rating had rose to 44.7%. But as long as his approval ratings is below 45%, these midterm election have a habit of biting the party in power real hard in the rear.

It's a wonder his approval is 43.3%, considering that foreign policy and the economy are below that.
So, what happens if both of those individual aspects go up?
In fact, a case can be made Obama has bottomed out again, just as in early 2012.

DEMs must focus on the do-nothing House and filibustering Senate.
DEMs need to have ads ready every time GOPs try to Repeal the ACA.
They also need to listen to B. Clinton and run on the good aspects of ACA that GOP voters like.
They also need to show how worthless the House is on Immigration, as per Boehner's remarks.

Maybe you'll look at that 3-year term for House members, since nothing gets done in two years .