How can we accurately gauge the 2014 elections?

Like many other Americans I too watched the election results of 2012 after casting my ballot earlier that day.

I found that I was severely let down, believing that the course of events that conspired before the election, with libya, you didn't build that, joe biden's endless stream of gaffes, and a collapsed economy; That a Romney lose was either going to be a land slide, or an Obama win was going to be a squeaker.

It turned out to be neither of those, at least regarding the electoral vote.

I was in a state of mental dreaming as if I needed to wake up from some nightmare post Obama reelection. For about a month I thought to myself "Is this really happening? DID Obama actually win, or am I dreaming?"

Alas, time elapsed and the "dream" or more likely a nightmare had not subsided.

The scramble of looking for reasons why Romney lost the election was even more disheartening. Accusations of him not connecting with minorities and women, the stream of taunting from childish Paul bots, etc sent my brain into a state of total disbelief.

How could a nation that had been suffering a worse fate then under it's previous president, possibly re-elect a man, legitimately, that is leading us over a cliff?

I'm certainly not the first to admit that the GOP has become soft, and has unfortunately listened to liberal pundits and decided that appealing to their audience is the right thing to do, has left real conservatives without a party we actually support.

It no longer matters that many of the 08' Obama voters stayed home during this election, when plenty of 08' Obama, 00-04' Bush voters stayed home or voted for Ron Paul/Gary Johnson.

What we must now focus on is how we can win the 2014 election, or at the very least keep the seats we have in the House and prevent the president from further ruining this nation, leaving it's populous a poor and pitiful standard of living, worse then that of Europe.

I know what you're thinking, "You just said you no longer support the GOP, yet you want to keep them in power? Why?"

The simple answer is even though I don't agree with what the GOP is doing, I still believe they will be less damaging then the Democrats.

I don't see the logic in letting things get far, far worse then they need to be for this country, rather then attempting to slow down the process.

YES, I realize that we need to stop it completely, but with our modern lifestyles, and extreme lack of care in making yourself educated about what's going on in the US, let alone the world, that doesn't exactly seem feasible.


If it is time for a third party to take the lime light away from the Republicans and focus on the real issues at hand, let it be so.

However I think it will end up coming out like this past election, but far worse.

Imagine if you will, if a party like the Tea Party or Libertarian party were to wedge themselves into Congress.

We would lose votes to the Libertarians/Tea Party and concede the election to the Democrats, accomplishing nothing.

What ever we choose, has to be a unified effort.

If we hope to further the goal, we MUST do it all at once otherwise we will sink faster then we are already sinking.

Since no plans have been made to do this yet, I am still sticking with the lesser of the two evils since they are less likely to drill as many holes in our metaphorical boat known as the United States, and cause us to sink.

They're still going to drill holes, but FEWER of them.