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Ignoring Dem House wins last week, Hannity asks if NJ, VA results mean that GOP "can take back the House"

November 11, 2009 11:16 pm ET

From the November 11 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity:

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Quick fact: Memo to Hannity: Democrats swept Congressional races last week

Right-wing talkers go down in defeat in NY congressional race

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    • Author by ReasonAndResolve (November 11, 2009 11:22 pm ET)
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      The Republicans all seem to be ignoring the fact that, in two national races, the Democrats won - actually increasing their majority in the House.

      Actually, that part of the story seems to have been largely missed by all of the supposedly liberal media.
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      • Author by pam95650 (November 11, 2009 11:46 pm ET)
           
        California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi was sworn in as a member of Congress today. He will represent the Bay Area's 10th Congressional District. He's a Democrat...

        http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/schwarzenegger-garamendi-.html
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    • Author by ProgLib (November 11, 2009 11:31 pm ET)
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      how can the republicans win back the house when they didnt win any house seats?
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      • Author by Conchobhar (November 11, 2009 11:37 pm ET)
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        Rove's "the math," at work again. Keep digging, lads.
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        • Author by ProgLib (November 11, 2009 11:49 pm ET)
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          as usual... and, im sure, if the democrats had won the governor seats and lost the house seats, the republicans would also make it into a bad thing for the democrats. typical wingnuts.
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      • Author by Civic Racecar (November 12, 2009 2:04 am ET)
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        The sad thing is that the Democrats will probably be blamed for the downturn in the economy and lose some seats, all because the jobs haven't returned. The one thing I hope doesn't happen, is that Republicans retake the House, because it will mean that in another decade we will be in the same situation we are in now, or worse.
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        • Author by ProgLib (November 12, 2009 3:52 am ET)
             
          thats why the democrats need to grow some oblongs and take action on fixing all of our problems... not just rolling over like wimps.
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          • Author by Conchobhar (November 12, 2009 7:57 am ET)
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            KO put it very well last night. The Dems have made just enough change to rile up the crazies on the right, but not enough to energize their own base. Their only hope of holding the House & Senate, if they don't get really progressive, is Bachmann, the baggers, and Palin.
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    • Author by Jen7 (November 11, 2009 11:41 pm ET)
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      Yes, Sean, they can take back the House with Govenor wins.

      Idiot.
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      • Author by pls5671 (November 12, 2009 4:24 am ET)
           
        I would hate to show how ignorant I was before a National audience or a Fox audience (which probably didn't know the difference). Those people swallow everything hook, line and sinker.
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 12, 2009 5:36 am ET)
         
      Suuure if that was the case that means we would have an overwhelming majority in this country who would be registered a democrat to get a president and a congress have a democratic majority, it would have to be like 80 to 20 dems to repubs. That is not the case.

      He passed a huge stimulus bill for the economy and everyone killed obama for it on this network? Its not waht obama is focusing on, it is just that obama is actually focusing on something so you must ridicule it.
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 12, 2009 5:41 am ET)
         
      iN no small part thanks to FOX the republican party looks like a bunch of school children over the last 6 months. The entire charade that you guys call protesting is just a series of personal attacks and outlandish completely unsubstantiated fears. That is not endearing yourself to your fellow moderate republicans who dont think that any form of reform is a government takeover and refuse to call obama a nazi just for the sake of being an idiot. I think they think that the entire republican party has been taken up in this spectacle they have been putting on when I think many republicans are very disillusioned with the idea that the republicans are so uniformally oppose to anything these days while coming up with absolutely NOTHING themselves. That is the party we should want back in the leadership role?
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (November 12, 2009 8:13 am ET)
         
      NO!!!!
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    • Author by blueline99 (November 12, 2009 11:05 am ET)
         
      The GOP and it's pundits (like Fox News) ignores all facts that do not support their positions.

      Virginia and NJ Governors win.. victory for the GOP
      Two open House seats go to Dems... completely ignored.

      It's laughable then when they say the Governor wins will help them win back the House, when the results of the special election show the opposite.

      The biggest fact that they ignore is that they pretend that the GOP is equal to the Dems in registered voters... so when they show any polls, it looks like the GOP is catching up... but the reality is that there are:

      72 million registered Dems
      55 million registered Repubs
      42 million registered Independents

      These number vary depending on who's reporting it, but the ratio has been pretty consistent (around 1/3 of registered voters are Republicans)

      The Republicans have to win over half the Independents to keep pace with the Dems, which hasn't been too difficult because the Independents typically are more conservative.

      So with numbers like these... polls that show percentages don't always tell the real story, especially if the polling sample doesn't represent the makeup of registered voters.

      The fact is that people are leaving the GOP in droves... and one day soon the news report will be that there are more independent voters then GOP... I think at that point the GOP becomes the Whigs.

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