We cats have been thinking about the Republicans' euphoria leading up to the 2012 election. They were so sure they were going to win that one, weren't they? It wasn't until later that we all found out that not just Team Willard but Romneybots from sea to shining sea had been living in a bad-poll bubble of bliss.
Thanks in part to that Republican embarrassment, we Democratic cats have sworn that no matter how dicey things look, we will never succumb to bubble-itis. So you won't find us pretending that things are rosy electorally when they're not.
At the same time, though, being superior beings, we tend to recall stuff that the highly paid amnesiacs in the political media like to forget.
Such as: Remember how four years ago — after that shocking (to them) loss to Obama-Biden — Republicans licked their wounds by trumpeting their wins in the Governors races? (They did — just click here.) Their basic message? Never mind that Willard won't be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that our idiotic Senatorial candidates self-destructed in huge, huge ways. We have the states!
Fast-forward to today. There's no Presidential race, of course, and pundithead salivating over a Republican Senate is in full swing. But, hey — what's up with those Govs?
Funny you should ask. We cats predict that whatever happens with the Senate this year, Democrats will move into the Governors' mansions in Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont — and, yes, in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin.
And should those predictions come to pass, will anyone in the media (or anywhere else) recall the GOP's consoling spin from 2012 — and apply it to Democrats in 2014?
We doubt it. It's maddening, but that's life in the bubble-filled, short-term-memory world of American politics. We cats HISS (but in the end, we'll probably PURR).
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