tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post8746229789563466541..comments2023-07-06T03:24:58.768-04:00Comments on Your Big Girl Pants: Live Blogging the Mid-Terms, Part II: When Doves CryEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-70024868955649023332014-11-04T22:55:38.707-05:002014-11-04T22:55:38.707-05:00Interesting how the polls seem to have been much m...Interesting how the polls seem to have been much more favorable to Dems than actual voting is. No real surprises yet although VA-SEN is troubling. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-52215878792605641712014-11-04T22:22:56.822-05:002014-11-04T22:22:56.822-05:00Gay marriage is the thing where I see the most mov...Gay marriage is the thing where I see the most movement. Abortion and birth control are going the other way.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-1751311410332997422014-11-04T22:13:00.810-05:002014-11-04T22:13:00.810-05:00I think Republicans are delicately skewing toward ...I think Republicans are delicately skewing toward the left on many social issues. Very delicately, and very slowly, but it is happening. McConnell has already said that he is unwilling to take on gay marriage if they should win the Senate. In Colorado, the Republican candidate has run away from the personhood initiative. More Republicans are embracing OTC birth control pills (as a way to get around some mandated birth control coverage, but still). It is absolutely happening.Mandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15832189885769646643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-35412209547997534712014-11-04T22:06:05.020-05:002014-11-04T22:06:05.020-05:00Solid read, but there are also the outside pressur...Solid read, but there are also the outside pressures on Rs to stay way right on social issues - which matter more as the Tea Party has been willing to challenge anybody in a primary and sometimes win. As for Ds, how long will it take for Ds to actually be confident enough to argue for their own ideas and successes? It's a perpetual head-scratcher for me. Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-50161395259203617232014-11-04T21:54:15.491-05:002014-11-04T21:54:15.491-05:00Interesting that the exit polls are showing that t...Interesting that the exit polls are showing that the majority of voters in this election agree with the Dems on social issues and immigration. Goes to show that people may be voting more about the economy (which has certainly improved so the Dems should have been running on that), or foreign policy (based on the myth that Republicans are better at foreign policy than Dems -- pure myth), or based on whether the candidate was "likeable" (and if that's the case, attack ads must work). So it will be interesting to see if the GOP backs off with their crusade for right-wing social policies, and if not, whether voters in 2016 start to cite social policies as something they are actually willing to vote on. Also will be interesting to see what they do with regard to immigration, given the exit polls. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-21982964204092102832014-11-04T21:39:26.996-05:002014-11-04T21:39:26.996-05:00MSNBC is calling that Louisiana will go to a runof...MSNBC is calling that Louisiana will go to a runoff. See you in December! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308923185697655557.post-43653647905287196802014-11-04T20:44:38.429-05:002014-11-04T20:44:38.429-05:00Give it up for Mandi with the title.Give it up for Mandi with the title.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11713092722965430212noreply@blogger.com