The Fix wonders is the Senate majority now in play?

With the developments in Illinois and Indiana over the past 24 hours, the Cook Political Report now carries 10 Democratic-held seats in their most competitive categories — meaning, theoretically, that if Republicans ran the table (and lost none of their own toss up seats in Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire and Ohio) they could get to 51 seats and the Senate majority.

Is it a longshot? Absolutely. But, remember that recent history has shown that in a national political landscape tipped in favor of one party a strong majority of toss up contests tend to fall that party’s way.

The good news is that the Dem president is such an inexperienced, inept, blundering, one-foot-always-in-mouth, out-of-touch, economy-wrecking socialist. That means independents are fleeing from him almost as fast as “moderate” conservatives.

The bad news is he is so incredibly bad that conservatives hate him with such vitriol that the resulting rhetoric turns independents away from the effort to take back the country. So says a poll from (of all places) Daily Kos, as reported by Politico:

The poll of 2,000 Republicans — sponsored by the liberal website but conducted by independent pollster Research2000 — paints a picture of a Republican base that’s angry, disaffected and acutely hostile to President Barack Obama. Thirty-nine percent of Republicans polled think Obama should be impeached, 36 percent say he wasn’t born in the United States and one in four say they aren’t even sure he’s a U.S. citizen. Another 63 percent labeled the president a “socialist.”

Those numbers are far higher than similar polls of Democrats and independents — polls that reveal dissatisfaction with many of Obama’s programs but not with the president personally.

“It was the first time we ever asked the impeachment question, … but ask independents if Obama was born in the U.S., and about 85 percent say yes,” said Research2000 President Del Ali.

“This shows a huge vulnerability for Republicans,” says Jef Pollock, a veteran pollster and Democratic strategist working for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) — who was forced to bolt from the GOP after conservative Pat Toomey attacked him from the right.

“Independents, who are particularly disinclined toward any kind of partisan rhetoric, are going to be turned off when they hear Republicans say stuff like this, which is patently crazy,” Pollock said.

Well, not “patently crazy”, but at least too late. The time to see the birth certificate was during the election, no after he was seated. Time to forge ahead and try to save the country from bankruptcy. Which is why I will not stop calling Obama a socialist. ‘Cause he is.

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