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GOP In Grave Danger Of Losing The House In 2014 Shows Polls
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Kaitlin
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Oct 06, 2013 01:07PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10...
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A grass roots effort by local repubs are already plotting to undermine the tea party and other extreme pov candidates by running their more moderate candidates from the business community against them. When it is political ideals, it is hard to chart the progress of what is going on, but make it dollars and sense and the business people will whip out their calculators and find the bottom line. The tea party is being used as a disposable product to try to stop people from getting good cheap health care from the democrats and then possibly changing from a repub to a democratic voter. Only people who don't know what is going on think it is about the money.
I hope so. But the Tea Party exists because people support them. I've seen vehicles where the bumper stickers actually scare me. Really.
Sadly, the election is a year from now and voters tend to have short memories. I hope they don't forget how pissed they are at the GOP by this time next year...
they now really hit new low the right that is according to new a pollhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10...
Nationally while the Republican party may be polling bad, the key leaders in this shut down and debt negotiations are from relatively safe, and politically homogenous, districts. "Moderate Republicans" who oppose the "Tea Party" get primaried with millions of dollars from Super-Pacs and then you have the emerging generation of "Ron Paul Republicans" who are more sectarian and debt obsessed than their predecessors. There's also the worrying prospect that your typical "Obama voter" doesn't vote in midterm elections. Don't count them out.
