April 1, 2014

The Writing Is on the Wall for Democrats

They’re afraid and they’re cannibalizing their own pollsters for predicting doom.

Democrats don’t have a lot going for them heading into the November midterm elections. Their chances of retaking the House are increasingly remote. They would need to flip 17 seats to claim the chamber. And their control of the Senate is as narrow as five seats. Not to mention that their campaigner in chief, Barack Obama, is suffering such dismal poll ratings that most candidates would prefer he stayed away this summer and fall.

How is it that the party that claimed a “permanent” majority after Obama’s re-election in 2012 came to find themselves in such dire straits? ObamaCare. The law that Democrats rammed down America’s throat with a strict party-line vote in 2010 is now unraveling in spectacular fashion just like we said it would. The costs of the program are becoming more evident to the American people. The ineffectiveness of the government’s ability to handle the program is a regular late-night talk show punch line.

The White House won’t be able to help congressional Democrats in 2014, though. Obama’s low approval ratings match George W. Bush’s in 2006 when the Democrats reclaimed Congress, and his own in 2010, when the Tea Party helped swing the House back into Republican control. The albatross that is ObamaCare will also prove a tough obstacle for Democrats to get over this fall. Unlike Obama himself, the Affordable Care Act was never popular, and now that it’s “law,” anyone associated with it faces a tough re-election bid.

There are some who don’t see the writing on the wall. Assistant House Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-SC), for one, believes that the White House could be doing more in helping turn the tide for the Democrats. “I don’t know if they’re doing everything they possibly can,” he said in a recent interview.

Other Democrats would rather shoot the messenger than listen to what he has to say. Nate Silver, who gained national fame and leftist sainthood for accurately predicting Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election victory, is now being thrown under the bus for predicting that Republicans have a 60% chance of winning the congressional midterms and taking the Senate. Two years ago, the Left was calling Silver one of the most brilliant minds in politics. But now that he is reporting a different outcome using the same statistical analysis, they’re accusing him of bias, ignorance and defamation. Imagine how they’ll view the American electorate in November if he’s right.

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