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David Shribman: The muddled midterm elections of 2014 (World-class malarkey)
The Bemidji Pioneer ^ | October 11, 2014 | David M. Shribman, executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Posted on 10/11/2014 9:03:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WATERVILLE, Maine — With three weeks remaining before the critical midterm congressional elections, the character of American politics for the next two years and for the presidential campaign that will begin in earnest next month is unusually uncertain. In fact, the contours of our national civic life are more undefined than they have been since the overtime election of 2000 — a period of ambiguity no one is eager to repeat.

So, as the election nears, the American political landscape can be described as a combination of enthusiasm and ennui that defies clear definition.

In fact, enthusiasm and ennui are co-existing comfortably this fall: Republicans feel they are poised to capture the Senate, giving them complete control of the legislative branch and providing them a battering ram against President Barack Obama and his comprehensive health care overhaul. Then again, last week Tom Wolf, with a commanding lead over GOP Gov. Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, sat unrecognized in an airport departure lounge as he prepared to take a flight between Pennsylvania’s two largest cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where he has saturated the airwaves....

(Excerpt) Read more at bemidjipioneer.com ...


TOPICS: Maine; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; maine; patroberts; pennsylvania; teaparty; tedcruz; texas; tomcorbett; tomwolf; waterville

1 posted on 10/11/2014 9:03:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"World Class Malarkey"

They almost had to shut down Mayberry when Howard Sprague blurted that out one day.

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2 posted on 10/11/2014 9:11:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (ANOTHER PERSON DOESN'T HAVE EBOLA, THIS TIME IN LOS ANGELES, AND THERE ARE TWO OF THEM!!!!)
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Senior journalist liberal pap.

Republicans "extreme", Democrats "moderate".

No original thought, whatsoever. Could've appeared on the editorial page of any legacy newspaper from the Providence Journal to the Portland Oregonian.

The Columbia School of Journalism probably publishes a template for this kind of navel contemplation.

3 posted on 10/11/2014 9:28:20 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: okie01

Post-Gazette. Certainly fits your profile but they are an especially pugnacious lefty lot.


4 posted on 10/11/2014 9:36:41 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Well, there's a lot of fog and muddled sea today, pretty much a boring day at the water, too hot to be cold, too cold to be hot, nothing much going on..."


5 posted on 10/11/2014 10:57:23 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Here’s hoping the dems led by that famous quota boy obammy, get waxed in the coming elections.
Hoping obammy and company have the worst day of their freaken lives.


6 posted on 10/12/2014 3:24:21 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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