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    <font size="+3">You just don't get it do you Bob ?<br>
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      The corporate controlled democratic politicians have been selling
      out the American people for two decades now and they are not
      getting any better they are only getting worse !<br>
      So don't attempt to kill the messenger, facts are facts that you
      seem to be in total denial of.<br>
      <br>
      And by the way, you are still incorrectly using the term " ultra
      Left " despite the fact that myself and others have corrected you
      in the past.<br>
      <br>
      David Johnson<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/28/2014 9:54 PM, Robert Naiman
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Ugh. I hate it when the ultra-left gloats about the
        prospect of a Republican victory.
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        <div>It's not at all "almost certain" that Republicans will
          capture the Senate. Nate Silver's poll aggregation site puts
          the current chance of a Republican takeover at 62.3%, with
          Democrats having a 37.7% chance of keeping the Senate. </div>
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            href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/">http://fivethirtyeight.com/</a><br>
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        <div>If that's an "almost certain" Republican victory, then it
          is "almost certain" that the best hitter in Major League
          Baseball will not get a hit the next time he goes to bat. </div>
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        <div>I suppose this ultra-left writer probably wouldn't be
          interested in such data; the ultra-left is usually too
          enamored of its own rhetoric to pay external evidence any
          mind.</div>
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          <div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>
            Policy Director<br>
            Just Foreign Policy<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
            <div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:12 PM, David
          Johnson <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>
          [CentralILJwJ] <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:CentralILJwJ-noreply@yahoogroups.com"
              target="_blank">CentralILJwJ-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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                    <p> <big><big><big><big><span><big><big><big><big><span>This
                                          time voter response could be
                                          even worse, given the overlay
                                          of other, additional
                                          legitimate grievances by large
                                          voter constituencies that
                                          previously voted for
                                          Democrats. </span></big></big></big></big></span></big></big></big></big>
                    </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>A
                                close look at the 2012 elections shows
                                that Obama won re-election largely
                                because of Hispanic, student youth, and
                                union labor votes delivered him the key
                                states that made the difference in his
                                U.S. electoral college vote results. In
                                addition to the continuing economic
                                legacies of 2010, these key
                                constituencies now have additional
                                grievances with the Democrats.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Millions
                                of Latino immigrants and Hispanics who
                                had high hopes that Democrats and Obama
                                would address their needs and grievances
                                no longer believe Democrats and Obama
                                can deliver a solution. Millions of
                                students with a combined more than $1
                                trillion in loan debt, who are now
                                paying tens of billions a year in excess
                                above-market interest to the U.S.
                                government no longer believe meaningful
                                debt relief is possible, even though it
                                could with a mere stroke of Obama’s pen.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>And
                                union workers who delivered key Midwest
                                states to Democrats and Obama in 2012,
                                and have received virtually nothing from
                                Obama since 2008 in return (except
                                perhaps the very real prospect of losing
                                their negotiated health benefits in the
                                next few years due to the Obamacare
                                health act) have seen the Obama
                                administration reject their unions’
                                every appeal for assistance and
                                reconsideration since 2012. <br>
                              </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                    <big><big><big><big><span>It’s not that these key
                              constituencies will vote Republican. It’s
                              that they will likely not vote Democrat.
                              They will vote with ‘the seat of their
                              pants’, as they say, and stay home. And
                              that means the loss of the Senate for
                              Democrats next week.</span></big></big></big></big>
                    <div><br>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><img
                            src="cid:part6.07060208.03040608@comcast.net"
                            alt="teleSUR" height="103" width="251"><b><span>teleSUR
                              English</span></b><b><span></span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>USA Midterm
                              Elections: Past and Present</span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>By Jack Rasmus</span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span>Published
                            27 October 2014</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span><img
src="cid:part7.08060902.06070605@comcast.net" alt="U.S. President Barack
                              Obama takes part in early voting at a
                              polling station in Chicago, Illinois
                              October 20, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)"
                              height="425" width="750"></span><span></span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><b><span><small><small><small>U.S.

                                            President Barack Obama takes
                                            part in early voting at a
                                            polling station in Chicago,
                                            Illinois October 20, 2014
                                            (Photo: Reuters)</small></small></small></span></b></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>With
                                    the USA midterm Congressional
                                    elections barely a week away on
                                    November 4, it appears now almost
                                    certain that Republicans will win
                                    the minimum six key Senate races
                                    they need in order take control of
                                    the U.S. Senate from the Democrats
                                    and the Obama administration. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>In
                                    a previous essay written in
                                    September, when the Democrats and
                                    the U.S. mainstream press were still
                                    maintaining the Democrats would hold
                                    on to the U.S. Senate, this writer
                                    predicted that “Obama and the
                                    Democrats face the very real
                                    possibility of losing control of the
                                    U.S. Senate in November” (see
                                    ‘Barack Obama as Jimmy Clinton’,
                                    teleSUR English, September 28,
                                    2014).  <br>
                                    Now it is almost certain they will. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><b><span>Why
                                      Democrats May Lose the US Senate</span></b><span></span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Republicans
                                    need to take back only 6 seats from
                                    the Democrats in the Senate to gain
                                    control of that institution. A week
                                    before the elections, they now hold
                                    comfortable leads in at least six
                                    and are favored to win in two more.
                                    The final outcome could be as high
                                    as ten Senate seat losses for the
                                    Democrats, as Democrats hold only
                                    slight leads in traditionally
                                    Republican states like North
                                    Carolina and Louisiana.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>As
                                    the election comes down to the wire,
                                    Democrats are becoming increasingly
                                    desperate, pinning their hopes on
                                    long shot wins in historically
                                    Republican bastion states like
                                    Kansas and Georgia. Even lead
                                    editorials in the New York Times now
                                    raise the specter, in bold
                                    headlines, of a ‘The Democratic
                                    Panic’ now in progress. Elsewhere
                                    high ranking party insiders, like
                                    Jim Manley, former spokesperson for
                                    the Senate Democratic Party leader,
                                    Harry Reid, are quoted publicly
                                    saying that “There is a decent shot
                                    that we are going to lose the
                                    Senate”.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>With
                                    the U.S. House of Representatives
                                    already firmly in control of the
                                    Republicans, and dominated by their
                                    ultra-conservative Teaparty faction,
                                    should Republicans in 2014 now also
                                    take the Senate the U.S. Congress
                                    will quickly become even more
                                    aggressively pro-corporate,
                                    pro-military adventurist, and even
                                    more anti-US worker than it has been
                                    to date. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>It
                                    is estimated that spending on the
                                    2014 midterm elections will exceed
                                    $4 billion, about $2 billion raised
                                    each by Republican and Democrat
                                    candidates.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>For
                                    that $4 billion, the American public
                                    can expect a new policy
                                    aggressiveness to emerge immediately
                                    after the election, driven by a
                                    newly confident, even more
                                    conservative, pro-corporate right
                                    wing with firm control of both
                                    houses of the U.S. Congress.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>With
                                    the U.S. House of Representatives
                                    already firmly in control of the
                                    Republicans, and dominated by their
                                    ultra-conservative Teaparty faction,
                                    should Republicans in 2014 now also
                                    take the Senate the U.S. Congress
                                    will quickly become even more
                                    aggressively pro-corporate,
                                    pro-military adventurist, and even
                                    more anti-US worker than it has been
                                    to date.  </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>High
                                    on the agenda of new policies that
                                    will quickly emerge from the midterm
                                    elections, should the Republicans
                                    take the Senate, will be the
                                    following policy initiatives: new
                                    tax cuts for U.S. multinational
                                    businesses, harsher treatment of
                                    immigrant workers in the USA, more
                                    anti-environmental actions favoring
                                    shale fracking, offshore drilling,
                                    pipelines, and CO2 industrial
                                    emissions rollbacks, renewed attacks
                                    on the Medicaid health system for
                                    the poor and Medicare health
                                    services for the retired, proposals
                                    for more funding for wars in the
                                    middle east, demands for more
                                    aggressive military support for the
                                    USA engineered coup d’etat
                                    government in the Ukraine, and
                                    perhaps even a renewed attack on
                                    social security retirement benefits
                                    in the USA.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Strategists
                                    for both Republicans and Democrats
                                    agree that the 2014 midterm election
                                    is about jobs and the economy. While
                                    the stock and bond markets in the
                                    USA continue their five year surge
                                    to new record heights, providing
                                    even more capital gains income to
                                    the wealthy and their corporations,
                                    the bottom 90% of USA households
                                    continue to languish after more than
                                    five years of so-called economic
                                    recovery.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>While
                                    the rich get ever richer and
                                    corporations ever more profitable,
                                    the Obama administration and the
                                    mainstream press daily trumpet that
                                    more than six million new jobs have
                                    been created since 2009. However,
                                    that same mainstream press remains
                                    conspicuously silent about the real
                                    facts about jobs and incomes in the
                                    USA.  For example, in a Bloomberg
                                    News interview this past week, it
                                    was reported that 76% of the U.S.
                                    jobs created since 2009 have been
                                    what is called ‘contingent’
                                    jobs—i.e. 60% part time and another
                                    16% temporary jobs. Jobs that are
                                    paid 50%-65% less than full time
                                    jobs. Jobs with no benefits,
                                    substandard working conditions, and
                                    no job security.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Furthermore,
                                    while 6 million jobs have been
                                    created, according to the mainstream
                                    press, little or no mention by that
                                    same press is made about the 8
                                    million USA workers who have dropped
                                    out and left the labor force
                                    altogether, disillusioned they could
                                    ever find work sufficient to support
                                    themselves. If the latter 8 million
                                    were considered in the unemployment
                                    rate in the USA—which they are not
                                    given the way the USA underestimates
                                    its jobless—the true unemployment
                                    rate in the USA would be in excess
                                    of 12% today instead of the current
                                    official rate of about half that.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>That’s
                                    8 million potentially unhappy
                                    voters. Add to their ranks the 4.5
                                    million who were able only to get
                                    part time and temp jobs; add the
                                    millions whose homes have been
                                    foreclosed since 2009; add the
                                    millions of union workers who now
                                    increasingly realize they will get
                                    no benefit from Obama’s health care
                                    act and instead will have their own
                                    costs of health insurance doubled;
                                    add the millions of students now in
                                    debt to the tune of more than $1
                                    trillion in the USA; add those
                                    millions fed up with the continued
                                    militarist policies of the
                                    administration; and, not least, add
                                    to all the above the key
                                    constituency that more than any
                                    other enabled Obama to win a second
                                    term in 2012—i.e. the tens of
                                    millions of Hispanic workers in the
                                    USA that Obama has recently turned
                                    his back on once again.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><b><span>The
                                      Strategic Latino-Hispanic Vote</span></b><span></span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    Obama administration since 2009 has
                                    deported more undocumented Latin
                                    American immigrant workers, and
                                    broken up more of their families as
                                    a result, than all preceding
                                    presidents combined. More than 2
                                    million have been deported on
                                    Obama’s watch. 438,000 in just 2013,
                                    which was 50,000 more than 2012,
                                    which in turn was 30,000 more than
                                    in 2011. That’s millions of
                                    potential family members and friends
                                    who will not forget the hurt come
                                    November 4.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>And
                                    after promising to end deportations
                                    and take executive action himself on
                                    immigration earlier this year, Obama
                                    has since retreated this past June
                                    and put all promises about
                                    immigration reform on hold. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Not
                                    surprising, a September 2014
                                    NBC/Telemundo poll showed only 13%
                                    of Latino voters in the USA felt
                                    “very positive” about the Democratic
                                    Party.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    Hispanic vote was key in 2012 to
                                    winning those states that put Obama
                                    back into the White House. Today it
                                    is those same states—Colorado, North
                                    Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
                                    etc.—that are the key swing states
                                    up for grabs in the race for the
                                    Senate.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>It
                                    is those same states in which
                                    Democrats running for the Senate are
                                    trailing well behind in voter polls.
                                    And if most Latino and Hispanic
                                    voters stay home and don’t turn out
                                    to vote, which appears the likely
                                    case next week, then Democrat Senate
                                    candidates are doomed in those same
                                    key states and Democrats will lose
                                    the U.S. Senate ‘hands down’, as
                                    they say.<br>
                                    Indicative of this likelihood was
                                    the headline in a Wall St. Journal
                                    this past week that declared
                                    ‘Hispanic Voter Frustration
                                    Threatens Democrats Most’.  The
                                    story included a report by
                                    organizers of the National Council
                                    of La Raza, who talked to
                                    prospective Latino voters house to
                                    house in Florida. The story noted
                                    that “many seemed to not be paying
                                    attention to this election. ‘We’ve
                                    been let down so many times, I don’t
                                    know who to support’, said Maria
                                    Molina, ‘I don’t  know if I’m going
                                    to vote’.” </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><b><span>A
                                      Tale of Two Midterm Debacles: 2010
                                      and 2014</span></b><span></span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    two midterm elections—2010 and 2014—
                                    are linked. They are part of the
                                    same dynamic and process, begun in
                                    2010 and continuing to this day. 
                                    And both the loss of the U.S. House
                                    in 2010, and likely the U.S. Senate
                                    in 2014, have their roots in the
                                    policies adopted by the Obama
                                    administration in the summer of
                                    2010.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Obama’s
                                    token fiscal stimulus in 2009, which
                                    was barely 5% of USA GDP at a time
                                    the U.S. economy was declining 15%
                                    in 2008-09, was insufficient to
                                    ensure a sustained economic
                                    recovery. (Compare his to China’s
                                    15% of GDP fiscal stimulus package
                                    at the time).</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>By
                                    the summer of 2010 more fiscal
                                    stimulus for the U.S. economy was
                                    clearly called for, as the 2009
                                    stimulus began to dissipate and the
                                    U.S. economy to stall out. 
                                    Unemployment began to rise once
                                    again by the tens of thousands every
                                    month throughout the summer of 2010.
                                    25 million were still unemployed.
                                    Homeowners’ foreclosures were
                                    accelerating at an average rate of
                                    300,000 a month. Economic output was
                                    slowing everywhere, with business,
                                    consumer, and local government
                                    spending in retreat.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>But
                                    despite this 2010 summer scenario,
                                    the Obama administration ignored the
                                    rising housing foreclosures, turning
                                    it over to the States’ attorneys
                                    general deal with the problem.
                                    Concerning jobs, he appointed the
                                    CEO of the General Electric Corp,
                                    Jeff Immelt, to head up his ‘jobs
                                    program’. Immelt’s jobs program
                                    turned out to be more free trade,
                                    more tax benefits for multinational
                                    corporations, and patent reform. Job
                                    losses and home foreclosures not
                                    surprisingly continued to rise. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Instead
                                    of directly addressing the
                                    continuing dual jobs and housing
                                    crises at the time, Obama turned to
                                    providing even more free money to
                                    bankers and investors. Following the
                                    ‘quantitative easing’ (QE) U.S.
                                    central bank program of 2009 that
                                    bought $1.7 trillion in bad assets
                                    from bankers and wealthy investors,
                                    Obama had the U.S. central bank
                                    provide an additional $600 billion
                                    in late 2010.  He then proposed
                                    another $800 billion more in tax
                                    cuts for business as well. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>In
                                    just two years, 2009-2010, bankers
                                    and big capital would receive at
                                    minimum a total of nearly $4
                                    trillion in direct subsidies, tax
                                    cuts, and free ‘no interest’ money.
                                    (Since 2010 they have received at
                                    least $500 billion dollars more in
                                    further business tax cuts, $2.2
                                    trillion more in QE free money, and
                                    hundreds of billions more in direct
                                    subsidies).</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>This
                                    focus on recovery for bankers and
                                    big business, while doing virtually
                                    nothing to address working and
                                    middle classes crises in jobs,
                                    housing, and declining wages and
                                    income, was not lost on American
                                    voters in the fall of 2010. With
                                    business and investors being bailed
                                    out without limit, working and
                                    middle class America were receiving
                                    little, if anything, in terms of
                                    jobs, housing rescue, or any other
                                    substantive assistance. The November
                                    2010 elections consequently resulted
                                    in a debacle for Democrats, who lost
                                    control of the U.S. House of
                                    Representatives by historic margins.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Democrats
                                    also lost the majority of State
                                    governorships up for election in
                                    2010.  2010 was a census year. That
                                    meant the states, now mostly under
                                    Republican rule after the 2010
                                    elections, could and did proceed to
                                    ‘gerrymander’ safe jurisdictions for
                                    Republicans in future U.S. House
                                    elections. Gerrymandering would
                                    ensure Republicans would hereafter
                                    have to worry little about ever
                                    losing the U.S. House again.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    jobs crisis in the USA has therefore
                                    still not been solved. There is only
                                    a massive ‘jobs churn’—from full
                                    time to contingent jobs, from high
                                    pay to low pay, and from new
                                    entrants to the labor force to
                                    millions leaving the labor force.  </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    same Obama policies in 2010 that led
                                    to the Democrats loss of the U.S.
                                    House of Representatives in that
                                    year’s midterm Congressional
                                    elections still continue to haunt
                                    Democrat Senate candidates this
                                    year, 2014:  Jobs, housing, stagnant
                                    and declining working class wages
                                    and incomes, rising working class
                                    debt, and slowing consumption by the
                                    vast majority of U.S. households.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>While
                                    Obama and the Democrats repeatedly
                                    refer to 6 million jobs having been
                                    created since 2010, they are silent
                                    on the fact that 4 million of those
                                    are part time, temporary, and thus
                                    low paid. Nor do they mention that 8
                                    million have left the labor force
                                    altogether. The jobs crisis in the
                                    USA has therefore still not be
                                    solved. There is only a massive
                                    ‘jobs churn’—from full time to
                                    contingent jobs, from high pay to
                                    low pay, and from new entrants to
                                    the labor force to millions leaving
                                    the labor force. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Nor
                                    has the Housing crisis been
                                    solved—at least for working and
                                    middle class Americans.  A brief
                                    period of housing recovery in
                                    2011-12 has resulted in a new
                                    slowdown. In the interim, housing
                                    sales were mostly to the wealthiest
                                    households or to institutional
                                    investors and foreign buyers—not the
                                    normal middle class buyer.
                                    Meanwhile, median working class
                                    families’ wages and incomes have
                                    continued to decline 1%-2% every
                                    year for the past four years, and
                                    household debt levels for median
                                    families have continued to rise.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>This
                                    basically stagnant state of economic
                                    affairs affecting the vast majority
                                    of U.S. workers and households has
                                    not been lost on the average voter
                                    today, in 2014, any more than it was
                                    lost on the same voter in 2010. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>This
                                    time, in 2014, the large number of
                                    Senate seats that were won by
                                    Democrats in 2008 are up for
                                    re-election. Those Democrats won
                                    Senate seats in 2008 from what had
                                    been historically traditional
                                    Republican seats in pro-Republican
                                    states. Now, in 2014, most of those
                                    seats will likely revert back to
                                    Republicans again.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><b><span>The
                                      Legacies of 2010 + New Grievances</span></b><span></span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>The
                                    Obama and Democrat policies and
                                    programs of 2010 that led to their
                                    midterm 2010 election debacle have
                                    never really changed.  Those
                                    policies in 2010 did little to
                                    create jobs, ignored the foreclosure
                                    crisis and failed to generate a
                                    sustained housing recovery, and did
                                    nothing about working families’
                                    steady decline in wages and
                                    incomes.  That cost the Democrats
                                    the U.S. House of Representatives in
                                    2010.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Today
                                    in 2014 little is fundamentally
                                    different after four years, except
                                    that the key voter constituencies
                                    Democrats are courting in 2014
                                    Senate races—i.e. Hispanic, student
                                    youth, and union workers—have been
                                    even more abused in the interim.
                                    This time voter response could be
                                    even worse, given the overlay of
                                    other, additional legitimate
                                    grievances by large voter
                                    constituencies that previously voted
                                    for Democrats. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>A
                                    close look at the 2012 elections
                                    shows that Obama won re-election
                                    largely because of Hispanic, student
                                    youth, and union labor votes
                                    delivered him the key states that
                                    made the difference in his U.S.
                                    electoral college vote results. In
                                    addition to the continuing economic
                                    legacies of 2010, these key
                                    constituencies now have additional
                                    grievances with the Democrats.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>Millions
                                    of Latino immigrants and Hispanics
                                    who had high hopes that Democrats
                                    and Obama would address their needs
                                    and grievances no longer believe
                                    Democrats and Obama can deliver a
                                    solution. Millions of students with
                                    a combined more than $1 trillion in
                                    loan debt, who are now paying tens
                                    of billions a year in excess
                                    above-market interest to the U.S.
                                    government no longer believe
                                    meaningful debt relief is possible,
                                    even though it could with a mere
                                    stroke of Obama’s pen.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>And
                                    union workers who delivered key
                                    Midwest states to Democrats and
                                    Obama in 2012, and have received
                                    virtually nothing from Obama since
                                    2008 in return (except perhaps the
                                    very real prospect of losing their
                                    negotiated health benefits in the
                                    next few years due to the Obamacare
                                    health act) have seen the Obama
                                    administration reject their unions’
                                    every appeal for assistance and
                                    reconsideration since 2012. </span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big><span>It’s
                                    not that these key constituencies
                                    will vote Republican. It’s that they
                                    will likely not vote Democrat. They
                                    will vote with ‘the seat of their
                                    pants’, as they say, and stay home.
                                    And that means the loss of the
                                    Senate for Democrats next week.</span></big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big> </big></big></big></big></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><big><big> </big></big></big></big></p>
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