Put it all on red!

Let's go back a year

Barack Obama has just been sworn in and the mood of America can be defined as hopeful. This man promised that he will change the culture of Washington. He had a majority in the house. He had a majority of 58 in the Senate, which would later become a super-majority of 60 with the addition of Minnesota Senator Al Franken and the conversion of Republican Senator Arlen Specter. He had all the wind a president could ever wish for in his sails. All he had to do was propose any reasonable middle-of-the-road legislation and the Grand old Party would be a fool to filibuster. He obviously had the marketing skills to make a virtually unknown Black Senator the Potus (President of the United States). All he had to overcome was a dependence on the Totus (Teleprompter of the United States, http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/). To sum up the mood of the nation at the time Time Released the following cover.

 Let's go 1 year forward.

Virginia and New Jersey just elected a Republican Governor. As if that wasn't impressive enough, Scott Brown got elected to the Senate of Massachusetts. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that this is the most significant senatorial election in our lifetime. I don't think there is a single metaphor, no matter how clever, that can describe how impressive this feat was. For a Republican Senator to get elected in the land of Kennedy is the equivalent of Black man to become an Imperial Wizard. That itself doesn't capture how ridiculously unlikely that a Republican would win a Senate seat in Massachusetts.

If that was all that the Republicans had going for them, I would say that this coming midterm election was going to be a moderate swing in the polls because there's simply not enough known Republican Senatorial candidates. If only there was a way for these relatively unknown candidates to get known, say through advertisements. Wouldn't it be something if these relatively unknown candidates would somehow get money to make their name known? Oh. Wait a second. There was that one completely insignificant and irrelevant Supreme Court case that happened recently. A case that legally gives corporations permission to donate money to campaigns. This case will hurt democrats. Big time. Why, you ask?

The way the system works is that "Big Business" supports the Republican party and "Big Labor" the Democratic Party. Americans, even in these anti-business times, hate unions more than businesses, and for good reason. Unions represent the employee when the union gets its way, it increases the cost on a company and in turn increases the price of a given product or service. By contrast when Businesses get their way, they decrease their costs in the form of corporate tax cuts which in turn translate to savings for the consumer.

Wow. My prediction? The house swings and the Senate, at the very least, goes 48-62. If it was up to me, I would put it all on red.