Although this is Arizona and Florida we’re talking about, I don’t think they can pull this off. Too many people are pissed off at the Republicans:
WASHINGTON — Americans for Prosperity, the political group backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, is targeting three of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats who are up for re-election next year. The group’s efforts are part of a new $3.5 million attack advertising campaign that hammers lawmakers for supporting President Obama’s health care law.
The senators — Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana — are all from conservative-leaning states that voted to elect Mitt Romney in 2012. The ads will start running in those states on Wednesday.
Americans for Prosperity is also targeting three Democratic members of the House who are in danger of losing next year: Ron Barber of Arizona, Joe Garcia of Florida and Patrick Murphy, also of Florida.
With the health care law’s flaws now front and center, Republicans and their allies have been trying to ratchet up the pressure on Democrats, especially where voters are most likely to respond negatively to the Affordable Care Act.
If one wants every single sitting Representative and Senator, Democrat or Republican, who is running in 2014 to be defeated does it really matter what the Koch brothers do. These Congressional clowns now stand at 9% in the polls. So the probability of all of them losing in the next election is pretty high. Who really cares if Landrieu or Begich or Hagen or any of the other Republican-Democrats are defeated? They are all part of the problem. Let’s get rid of everybody and start again.
Actually, the probability (certainty?) is that most of them (75% or more) will be re-elected, no matter what. If, by some miracle, they were all voted out of office, about 10% of their replacements would be an improvement, 60% would be about the same, and 30% would be even worse than their predecessors.
Unfortunately, there are very few future Alan Graysons, Elizabeth Warrens, or Bernie Sanders out there.