Scott Walker offers a fresh new approach

[regexcellent]

I predict that Ted Cruz will not be president in 2017.

[kentonio]

Isn't your current avatar proof enough that you shouldn't be making predictions on American politics?

Funny words coming from a man who on the day of the last general declared..

Personally, I wouldn't take anyone seriously at this point when predicting a candidate getting 300+ Electoral Votes.

[Dinner]

Ken does have a point there. Just saying. DD was gullible enough to buy into the whole "skewed polls" conspiracy nonsense.

[DinoDoc]

I predict that Ted Cruz will not be president in 2017.

Obama killed the chances of any 1st term Senator winning the nomination.

[Dinner]

By winning? What about JFK? I imagine we will see more of the same in the future. The same as it ever was.

[DinoDoc]

By being a terrible President.

[regexcellent]

A partner in my father's firm, former Democratic congressman from North Dakota I think (name is escaping me) commented that with another president like Obama the Democratic Party will cease to exist.

Not because he disagrees with Obama's policies but because he's managed to **** over every Democrat that isn't himself. The Dems are in the weakest position they've been in a very long time, controlling almost no state governments and at a severe disadvantage in both the House and Senate.

[Aeson]

I wouldn't trust anyone who involved with either party to have a useful opinion on politics. ~40% of American voters are going to vote [D|R] even if their candidate was the reanimated corpse of Hitler. So really all they need to win is for the other side to feel complacent and not turn out, and the idiots who can't properly punch a hole in a card will decide the rest.

[Pedotard]

A partner in my father's firm, former Democratic congressman from North Dakota I think (name is escaping me) commented that with another president like Obama the Democratic Party will cease to exist.

[Hauldren Collider]

His name is Earl Pomeroy.

[Dinner]

By all objective accounts Obama has done extremely well despite a nearly treasonous hatred for America which Republicans have shown. Just their attempts to cash the American economy should have gotten them all executed during the run up to 2012.

I mean it.

[DinoDoc]

By all objective accounts Obama has done extremely well despite a nearly treasonous hatred for America which Republicans have shown.

The Democratic Party has largely been hollowed out over the course of his term.

[Aeson]

I dont think Obama has done a very good job, but at least better than the guy before him. Claims that either of them destroyed their party ignores the reality of US politics.

[DaShi]

The Democratic Party has largely been hollowed out over the course of his term.

Hardly, you're confusing a rebound of the republican party (of which is still severely crippled by strong divisions, just look at the 2016 candidates) with troubles in the democratic one. The democratic party simply enjoyed a huge boost from the utter evisceration of the republican party during Bush's term, and now the balance of the two is correcting itself.

[Dinner]

What Dashiell said combined with the fact that Republicans have gerrymandering the house districts to hell and back. Dashi's post pretty much covers the Senate.