{"id":2890,"date":"2014-10-21T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:50:47","slug":"numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"NUMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, if the election was held today, and the current polls are accurate, then Republicans would win control of the Senate by a healthy margin.\u00a0 Republicans would end up with 53 seats and Democrats would end up with 47 seats.\u00a0 What is shocking is that it is possible that Republicans will do even better than that.\u00a0 For example if Republicans were to pick up three more seats, which is certainly possible, they would end up with 56 seats and Democrats would have 44 seats.\u00a0 That result would be considered a mandate by both parties for significant change.\u00a0 Some of those conservative Democrats might just join with Republicans at least with regard to important issues.\u00a0 Currently no Senate Democrat in his right mind would cross swords with Harry Reid.\u00a0 But if Republicans take control of the Senate, Harry Reid will be reduced to a loud noise in the background.\u00a0 That will not only impact Republicans, it will impact Democrats.\u00a0 The significance of Republicans taking back control of the Senate cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time Senate Democrats are desperately trying to distance themselves from Obama, he is making the election all about him.\u00a0 Just recently Obama said that those Democrats trying to avoid him are secretly supporting his policies.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Obama thought that only the five remaining devoted followers would hear what he said to Al Sharpton:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/10\/20\/obama-hey-all-these-red-state-democrats-running-away-from-me-are-strong-supporters-who-vote-with-me\/\">http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/10\/20\/obama-hey-all-these-red-state-democrats-running-away-from-me-are-strong-supporters-who-vote-with-me\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWell, look, here\u2019s the bottom line, we\u2019ve got a tough map.\u00a0 A lot of states that are contested this time are states that I didn\u2019t win.\u00a0 And so some of the candidates there, you know, it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turn-out.\u00a0 The bottom line is, though, that these are all folks who vote with me.\u00a0 They have supported my agenda in Congress. \u201c\u2026So, this isn\u2019t about my feelings being hurt.\u00a0 These are folks who are strong allies and supporters of me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Obama secretly thinks he is still wildly popular. When you consider the other issues where he is oblivious to the obvious this is entirely possible.\u00a0 Regardless of why he said it, it is the gift that keeps on giving.\u00a0 By all accounts Obama is absolutely toxic in this election and he just gave Republicans the ultimate campaign video clip.\u00a0 That sound you hear is Democratic strategists all over the country throwing up.\u00a0 If Democrats get pummeled across the board on November 4<sup>th<\/sup> they will blame Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I guess when you think about it, why would any expect Obama to do better at fighting Democrats than he has done fighting ISIS?<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, if the election was held today, and the current polls are accurate, then Republicans would win control of the Senate by a healthy margin.\u00a0 Republicans would end up with 53 seats and Democrats would end up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2890\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NUMBERS - SCOTS HONOR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2890\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NUMBERS - SCOTS HONOR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to Fox News, if the election was held today, and the current polls are accurate, then Republicans would win control of the Senate by a healthy margin.\u00a0 Republicans would end up with 53 seats and Democrats would end up &hellip; 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