Posted on 09/15/2010 2:41:08 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Tilted toward the GOP from the start of the year, the political environment has grown even more favorable for Republicans and rockier for President Barack Obama and his Democrats over the long primary season that just ended with a bang.
With November's matchups set and the general election campaign beginning in earnest Wednesday, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that more Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction than did before the nomination contests got under way in February. Also, more now disapprove of the job Obama is doing. And more now want to see Republicans in control of Congress rather than the Democrats who now run the House and Senate.
The country's pessimism benefits the out-of-power GOP, which clearly has enthusiasm on its side. Far more people voted this year in Republicans primaries than in Democratic contests, and the antiestablishment tea party coalition has energized the GOP even as it has sprung a series of primary surprises.
"We're definitely in a stronger position than we've been in really at any point this year," Sen. John Cornyn, who leads the effort to elect Senate Republicans, said in an interview.
Said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "Turnout and enthusiasm are off the charts."
Indeed, Republicans expected turnout of 30,000 to 40,000 in Delaware on Tuesday. Some 57,582 people showed up to vote as tea party-backed Christine O'Donnell upset moderate Rep. Mike Castle for the Senate GOP nomination. By most accounts, the outcome diminished Republican chances of winning former Vice President Joe Biden's seat. But Republicans got their preferred candidate in New Hampshire as former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte fended off tea party-supported Ovide Lamontagne by a razor-thin margin.
Fueling voter anger is an unemployment rate that's hovered near 10 percent all year
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Only Problem with the GOP is the RINO.
I’d put the odds at about 25% that the Democrats will try to get a federal judge to postpone the entire election on theh grounds that “Republican talk show hosts and the internet have so poisoned the mood of the public that a fair hearing for our party’s candidates is not possible under these conditions.”
Mitch McConnell is the Senate majority leader?
Best kept secret in Washington!
I guess the JournoListers got their chorus together on that line. It's in every article.
Nah. They’re not that stupid. They’d lose literally every Senate seat up, 380 House seats...
You're right. The Democrats have never done anything really really stupid before.
The Anti-Constututionalists have decided to make him a Boehner of contention :-)
Here in America’s Dairyland, Republicans statewide won in landslides. Votes cast for Republican candidates eaily doubled and ofted tripled vote tallies for democrats. Our Statehouse is going red and it is possible we will turn the entire legislature over to the GOP. Even better is there is a good chance we take two House seats and a Senate seat away from the dems.
Indeed, the income tax issue will be the thing that will be the downfall of the Democrats this fall, in my humble opinion.
Hope it's true! Has anybody told Harry?
Pray that the GOP doesn’t screw things up. They have a momentum going at a good pace. They need to watch and act carefully in order to be successful.
With November's matchups set and the general election campaign beginning in earnest Wednesday, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that more Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction than did before the nomination contests got under way in February. Also, more now disapprove of the job Obama is doing. And more now want to see Republicans in control of Congress rather than the Democrats who now run the House and Senate.Remember the "bitter Afghan winter" the leftists warned about when they opposed the War on Terror in Afghanistan? Well, they are about to be on the receiving end of a bitter autumn, cold and bitter winter, and spring and summer they'll be in the streets with bullhorns as Obama's racist black klansmen run wilding. Thanks reaganaut1.
The AP is running low on fact-checkers since most of them are on loan to the Obama Administration as shoe shiners.
No, they won’t postpone the fall election. They will just move it to Canada.
For the GOP? Um, no. For Conservatives, yes.
“Mitch McConnell is the Senate majority leader?”
They are just reporting the election results EARLY. :-0
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