DUmpmonkiez make excuses why they will lose in 2014. Already.

[dutch508]

Yes- already the monkiez at the DUmp are fine-tuning their excuses why 2014 mid-tern elections will be a disaster for the Democrat Party...

True Blue Door (113 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251369988

Exhaustive (and exhausting) list of obstacles to Democratic victory in 2014.
In no particular order...

1. Gerrymandering. Republicans have gone about gerrymandering with a strategic focus similar to business investment - using each round of it as a means to expand rather than merely protect what they have. The results have been an increasingly undemocratic partisan proportion that in no way reflects the American electorate, at times - like 2012 - resulting in GOP majorities in legislative bodies when the majority of voters had voted for Democrats.

2. Prison districting. This is a long-standing issue whereby rural, strongly conservative districts choose to locate prisons in their territory. The inmates of these facilities, most of whom cannot vote or wouldn't vote anyway, are then counted as constituents, resulting in quite a few Republican districts that would not otherwise exist or would have to be combined into one. I've read studies claiming that the GOP would not have won a single Congressional majority in the past three decades without this undemocratic phenomenon.

3. Jim Crow 2. Thanks to 5COTU5's ruling striking down key portions of the Voting Rights Act, and the high likelihood they will make further lawless decisions attempting to decide elections in favor of the GOP in advance, it is extremely likely that minority voters will face obstacles to voting unprecedented in generations. This only compounds the demographic tendency of low-income and minority voters to sit out midterm elections. Remember, that Tea Party operative who threw out voter registration forms in 2012 was never prosecuted by the Republican prosecutor in that area, so expect such tactics to be implemented on a massive scale this time around.

4. Perverse Blame. Bizarre as it seems, some people seem to think Congress is currently run by Democrats or even the President, and that they can just wave a magic wand and overcome absolute obstructionism. The Senate, which does have a Democratic majority, still has to deal with filibuster obstructionism, and obviously cannot dictate anything to the House.

5. The media is full of unhinged right-wing propaganda. But what else is new?

6. 5COTU5's lawless decisions turning elections into auctions. Since the rich are largely Republican, and since more of the middle and lower classes sit out midterm elections, the GOP will simply buy their desired result through even more pervasive right-wing propaganda campaigns than normally flood the media. The truth will simply be shouted down and locked out, lies will be believed for lack of any sufficiently-scaled challenge.

7. A distracted / priority-incompetent left. Again, what else is new? Achieving something will always be less important to some people ostensibly on our side than self-satisfaction.

8. 5COTU5 can always pull another Bush v. Gore if all else somehow fails them. They have shown their willingness in the past to simply throw out and arbitrarily decide elections as they see fit, and their level of brazenness these days approaches infinite.

9. Outright election-rigging is likely in some areas. No matter how many advantages right-wingers have in a legitimate election, they will always prefer a guaranteed result. They've tried before, and they've succeeded often enough to reward their efforts. Every election cycle makes their efforts more organized and increases its scale. With a newly energized Tea Party / brownshirts at work on behalf of their millionaire masters to end democracy in America once and for all, and knowing 5COTU5 has their back, expect new depths of brazen authoritarianism to be plumbed.

So...what are you gonna do about it?

 

Maedhros (3,197 posts)
1. 7. A distracted / priority-incompetent PARTY.

Fixed that for you.

But I thought you people were all genius types?

Cosmocat (5,763 posts)
3. Yep it isn't good, and it probably is not going to be good in November.
The ONLY hope is somehow finding a way to hold on to the Senate by a hair, with maybe picking up some governorships as a consolation prize.

 

DOOM DOOM DOOM!!

blkmusclmachine (10,318 posts)
14. #'s 8 and 9 especially problematic. You know those 5 lying liar psychopaths on the SCOTUS won't hesitate 1 nanosecond to overturn election results in favor of the GOP. They are crooked, vile, black rob(b)ed thugs! True ACTIVISTS, ones that have never exercised this level of legal slimeballery since Bush v. Gore.

DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!

[JohnnyReb]

It can't be that we, the smartest people on earth, have stupid ideas about how to govern.[DU/mode]

[BlueStateSaint]

DOOM DOOM DOOM!!
 

DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!

This version is only four mintues, as opposed to the pipe organ version . . .

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAp7Xf2L_o[/youtube]

[thundley4]

1. Gerrymandering. Republicans have gone about gerrymandering For decades, liberals had a lock on gerrymandering. Now it is mostly done to protect incumbents, not one party.

2. Prison districting. This is a long-standing issue whereby rural, strongly conservative districts choose to locate prisons in their territory. Wrong. Most prisons are located near Dem cities to better serve their clients.

3. Jim Crow 2. Thanks to 5COTU5's ruling striking down key portions of the Voting Rights Act Damn them for trying to stop voting fraud.

4. Perverse Blame. Bizarre as it seems, some people seem to think Congress is currently run by Democrats Harry the pederast has stopped every house bill dead in it's tracks.

5. The media is full of unhinged right-wing propaganda. But what else is new? Just too stupid for words.

6. 5COTU5's lawless decisions turning elections into auctions. The left loved it when only unions  and lefty groups could buy elections.

7. A distracted / priority-incompetent left Incompetent at leading, but not stealing elections.

9. Outright election-rigging is likely in some areas. No matter how many advantages right-wingers have in a legitimate election, they will always prefer a guaranteed result. They've tried before, and they've succeeded often enough to reward their efforts. complete and total projection.

[hillneck]

About four months to go until the elections and the DUmmies are already twisting in the wind.  It's only going to get better, especially if the Dems. lose seats.

[Karin]

Response to True Blue Door (Original post)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 03:21 PM

Erich Bloodaxe BSN (1,939 posts)

4. 10. Candidates who can't enthuse enough voters to vote for them.
 
Recent polling has shown less than a quarter of the youth vote intends to vote in the midterms.

Given that the youth vote is usually sewn up by Dems, you'd think more candidates would be putting a lot more effort into showing that they're worth voting for, and get young adults interested in voting.

You know, in Carl's and my district, our person running for Representative is a woman, a millennial, and a Republican.  Many people were very enthusiastic about voting for her.  Highly expected to win over her democrat opponent, who spends all his time in Brooklyn, for some reason.   

[landofconfusion80]

The fear will only increase...

http://winwithjmc.com/archives/5748
Election turnout predictions as of now

[Gina]

How come when the SCOTUS gives a ruling in the dems favor the are all  but when it's not in their favor the decision was bought? 

[Wineslob]

How come when the SCOTUS gives a ruling in the dems favor the are all  but when it's not in their favor the decision was bought? 

Apply that to votes.

[Carl]

You know, in Carl's and my district, our person running for Representative is a woman, a millennial, and a Republican.  Many people were very enthusiastic about voting for her.  Highly expected to win over her democrat opponent, who spends all his time in Brooklyn, for some reason.

She will be the youngest Rep in the House I believe.

[98ZJUSMC]

5. The media is full of unhinged right-wing propaganda. But what else is new? Just too stupid for words.

I'm going to restate the obvious, but how can any observer, of any level of intelligence above a rock, come up with this?

I know....I know......

[98ZJUSMC]

How come when the SCOTUS gives a ruling in the dems favor the are all  but when it's not in their favor the decision was bought? 

Hyper-partisan children, never being told "No".