2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Obama’s Brilliant Move Deals A Blow To The GOP’s 2014 Hopes [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)But the Democrats really, really need to grow a spine, both in the Senate and the states, for that to happen.
Republicans have sold the gullible voting Americans on, Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! to win the 2010 elections, and Independents fell for that lie, giving the Republicans waaaay too much power in the majority of states. Their goal has always been to gain and keep political power (in order to pass egregious pro-corporate laws), and in order to do that, they had to gerrymander districts to ensure only Republican candidates could win.
Now, if the Democrats had half a spine, they would do a little Tom-Delay-gerrymandering themselves to level the political playing field. I don't see that happening thus I don't see Democrats winning the House back in 2014 and obstructionism will continue to happen until President Obama is out of office and the next Democratic President is inaugurated in January 2017.