Santorum's Anti-Immigrant Pander Hurt Him in Puerto Rico

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Friend Hedges, I wouldn't count on picking up a lot of seats in 2012. 2010 was a get rid of the bums vote, not a ideological shift in the country. We're still a 50/50 nation. Would you call 2008 a Democratic landslide? I wouldn't, it was another wave election, vote the bums out. We will keep voting out these folks until they can learn how to legislate bills in to law instead of grandstanding everything. (That applies to pubs and dems.) Perhaps you haven't seen the recent polling on Congress. It's dismal. Ain't nobody happy with nobody. It will be another wave election. The Senate might go to the Pubs and the House might go to the Dems, but it's a long time between now and the election. Anything can happen.

bing of AL 8:23PM March 22, 2012

bing of AL
We gained a bunch of seats Nov. 2, 2010. Expect a lot more coming.
First off, a Democrat Senate did not pass the bill. Read my link and check date of article:
http://juliorvarela.com/2011/02/22/why-puerto-rico-will-never-become-the-51st-state/

Bill Hedges of MO 5:26AM March 21, 2012

It is pure pandering, the GOP will never let Puerto Rico become a state. They don't want two more Democrat Senators. Plain and simple.

bing of AL 6:22PM March 20, 2012

"From my narrower perch, where I watched Nixon's "Southern strategy" successfully evolve in his 1968 campaign, it seemed that the roots of our political dysfunction trace back to a shift in southern conservative congressional representation from Democratic to Republican control following the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Alan Greenspan "The Age of Turbulence" pg246

Alan Greenspan of CA 10:34AM March 20, 2012