Polls are in; the Democrats lost!

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The polls are in; the Democrats lost

According to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, the Republicans have a 57.6 percent chance of winning a majority in the Senate and are odds-on favorites to increase their majority in the House. So, for the next two years, at least, there is a strong likelihood that our Democratic president will face an increasingly hostile and belligerent Congress. For those embittered by the flawed strategies of the Democrats in Congress and disappointing record of unfulfilled promises by the president, there is a tinge of self-righteousness in feeling that Democrats deserve this defeat and a grudging recognition of the Republican strategy of "just say no."

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Turnout fears mount for Dems

The Democratic Party's worst fears about the midterm election look to be coming true.

Polling in recent weeks suggests turnout on Election Day could be very low, even by the standards of recent midterms. That’s bad news for Democrats because core groups in the liberal base are more likely to stay home than are people in the demographic segments that lean Republican...

If the numbers hold, it could mean a rout for Democrats similar to the 2010 "shellacking" — President Obama’s description — that swept away their House majority.

"We cannot have 2010 turnout. If we have 2010 turnout among our key constituencies, we're going to have 2010 all over again. It's math," said Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher, who served as a pollster for President Obama's election campaigns.

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