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Title: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: terry on November 01, 2010, 08:53:09 PM
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Deep13  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:17 PM
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Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory.
   
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If Ds hang onto both Houses, we are calling it a complete rejection of the R. point of view.

Right?
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hughee99  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:27 PM
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12. As long as we hold on to the presidency
   
we'll call it a victory regardless of outcome. The more expectations are raised for the repukes, the easier it will be to paint this as a "victory" for us.


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graz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:26 PM
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11. Also, if the Rangers score a run tonight, we'll say they won the Series
   
Edited on Mon Nov-01-10 12:29 PM by jgraz
You'll pardon me if I stick with the reality-based community. :eyes:

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walldude  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 06:34 PM
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30. "Spinning it"
   
yeah a euphemism for "fooling yourself". How hard is it for Democrats to say that if they lost it might just be because they didn't do a good enough job? Wait I know the answer... IT'S TOO ****ING HARD. It'll be easier to blame the gays.
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eep13  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:33 PM
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16. When I was a defense attorney...
   
...a verdict that came back with less liability than the prosecutor's best offer was a victory. I think the Ds holding off the predicted R landslide will be a victory in reality.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis
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jgraz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:42 PM
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19. Well, in your expert opinion as a defense attorney...
   
what would you call it when you practically sweep a party off the map, elect a hugely popular president with a historic mandate and give him both houses of Congress with the largest majorities in a generation... and then piss that all away in just two years?

link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9433498&mesg_id=9433498)

 :-)
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Freeper on November 01, 2010, 08:53:47 PM
Hell if  they only win one seat they will declare victory.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Mike220 on November 01, 2010, 09:25:37 PM
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jgraz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-01-10 12:42 PM
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19. Well, in your expert opinion as a defense attorney...
   
what would you call it when you practically sweep a party off the map, elect a hugely popular president with a historic mandate and give him both houses of Congress with the largest majorities in a generation... and then piss that all away in just two years?

Wait, what? Anyone know what this DUmbass is talking about? Since when is 52% a mandate? And which party was "swept off the map?"
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: franksolich on November 01, 2010, 09:30:58 PM
Wait, what? Anyone know what this DUmbass is talking about? Since when is 52% a mandate? And which party was "swept off the map?"

This is what gets me; the Bostonian Drunkard similarly alleged the Big Zero had won in a "landslide."

And then of course there was Pedro Picasso, the "Atman" primitive, who alleged the Impeached One had won in a "landslide" in both 1992 and 1996, when in fact the Impeached One was the only two-term president to not win a 50%+1 majority at least once in the two elections, in American history, being elected both times with less than a majority of the popular vote.

Professional political scientists define "landslide" as 55%+ of the vote in a race.

The last presidential landslide was for George Bush, in 1988.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Odin's Hand on November 01, 2010, 09:34:09 PM
Victory for these idiots will eventually boil down to waking up with enough dope to load a bowl.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Chris_ on November 01, 2010, 09:35:37 PM
Hell if  they only win one seat they will declare victory.
After wasting my time reading this stupid thread, I hope they lose every single one of them.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Ballygrl on November 01, 2010, 09:39:12 PM
OK, tough love time, listen up, if you don't gain 1 seat in the House or the Senate it's a loss!
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: franksolich on November 01, 2010, 10:02:10 PM
OK, tough love time, listen up, if you don't gain 1 seat in the House or the Senate it's a loss!

The rich kid the grazing primitive, the "jgraz" primitive, is correct in stating that the Big Zero, in his non-landslide presidential win, brought with him the largest Dem majorities in Congress since the presidency of the Incompetent One during the late 1970s.

Which has always made allegations of "Republican obstructionism" specious, even silly.

With Republicans in a substantial minority, how could they obstruct anything?

I suspect that if the primitives looked at the facts as the facts are, rather than as they wish the facts to be, the primitives would find enduring the facts of Tuesday much more bearable.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: jukin on November 01, 2010, 10:10:41 PM
Oh BOY!!

It's is going to be sweat manana.
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: Mike220 on November 01, 2010, 10:13:48 PM
Oh BOY!!

It's is going to be sweat manana.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight in anticipation.  :hyper:
Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: BattleHymn on November 01, 2010, 10:18:11 PM
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Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: BattleHymn on November 01, 2010, 10:25:12 PM
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Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: crockspot on November 02, 2010, 07:09:13 AM
I guess the Dems will be teh winnah then, because that seat in New Orleans that was won by the Vietnamese Republican guy last time around will probably fall back to the Dems.

Title: Re: Just to be clear, if Ds hang onto either house, we are calling it a victory
Post by: true_blood on November 02, 2010, 06:29:48 PM
The DUmmies are clinging onto anything to make this a victorious day for them. Somehow, I don't think it will happen to be a good night for them. ;D