Posted on 10/16/2009 1:13:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Health Care's Coattails
Democrats are losing because of national issues
By JOHN FUND
OCTOBER 15, 2009, 2:16 P.M. ET
Republicans won a pair of special elections on Tuesday in Tennessee and Oklahoma, picking up seats held by Democrats for decades. Combined with this month's capture of the Albuquerque mayor's office by a Republican for the first time in 28 years, Democrats have reason to be nervous about the approaching November 3 off-year elections. Given their lackluster performance in these races, they could face serious turnout problems that will boost GOP performance.
In Tennessee, Republican businessman Pat Marsh won 56% of the vote to defeat Democrat Ty Cobb. It wasn't as if Mr. Cobb had a name unknown to voters. His brother Curt had held the seat before resigning to take another government office (and it probably didn't hurt having the same name as a baseball legend). But Mr. Cobb attributed his defeat to the fact that "a lot of people based their opinions on national issues . . . the health care issue was the main one."
A couple of states over, national issues may also have played a role in the GOP capture of an Oklahoma House seat held by Democrats since 1965. Republican Todd Russ won 56% of the vote even though registered Democrats have a two-to-one edge in the district. The twin victories mean Republicans have captured a total of six state legislative seats from Democrats in special elections this year.
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Obama Absent From Virginia Governor’s Race as Democrat Trails
By Heidi Przybyla
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- For Virginia, it’s not easy being purple.
The state had shown signs of becoming Democratic territory when Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate of his party to win Virginia since 1964. The governor and both U.S. senators are Democrats, too.
That trend may be in trouble.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aNznyE20hVp8
If the GOP wins both the VA and NJ governorships, and then we start to see significant number of party switches at both the federal and state level by blue-dog democrat legislators, I’ll start to entertain hopes for a repeat of a 1994-scale electoral debacle for the dems in 2010.
IMO, this is why they’re dragging their feet on the healthcare reform bill. Either one of two scenarios is playing out:
1. They want a thermomenter to see if people are really as angry at Dems as appears before they vote on the bill.
2. They don’t care if people are angry, because they’re going to vote for healthcare reform anyway, but will wait till after the election to pass it, so it doesn’t adversely affect their Nov. chances.
I hope you're wrong. I hope 2010 makes 1994 look like the good old days for Democrats. I'd like to see them struggle to hold 100 seats in the House. To say that I'm sick of these fascist demagogues is a complete understatement.
Deeds was on local TV this a.m. saying Obama would be on a stage with him shortly.
“To say that I’m sick of these fascsist demagogues is a complete understatement.”
The Cold War was lost within United States borders. Because of that, you’ll be seeing much of Democrat fascist scu&bags for a long time to come.
IMHO
I'm hoping Ibama has the impeached *Squirt's Midas touch - an endorsement equals a loss. We'll see.
Fingers crossed for 2010.
That MUST mean Deeds supports ObamaCare's requirement to extort a fee from Americans who don't sign up for Ohaha healthcare.
ROTFL.
Polling suggests that any lawmaker who supports that neat little twist is performing the political equivalent of swallowing a time-released poison pill.
How 'bout that, America? ObamaCare's death panels---but working in the opposite way Ohaha intended. LOL.
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