Posted on 08/08/2009 10:53:36 PM PDT by American Dream 246
GOP lost 2006 and 2008 because the independents (35 percent of voters) were tire of the war, job losses to overseas, inaction on illegal immigration, and when the stock market blew up (too much trust in Wall Street) they went 60 to 40 for Obama. Today the ratio is the other way against Obama. GOP need to stick to three things, job creation, worker can keep more of his gross pay, and government will leave the worker alone and the GOP will retake the House in 2010 and maybe the Senate/WH in 2012.
Well, it was going to happen at some point. Truth is you can microtarget all you want, but it always comes down to getting out the vote on election day.
You mean 57 states, right?
I guess they are feeling a little confident now with their victory in Missouri with Franken.
The GOP does nothing.
Minnesota.
(On behalf of myself and others, perhaps, do you create these, or are they available online to re-print?)
He's not from Missouri but from Saturday Night Live. When the show starts, you'll eventually hear, "Live from Minnesota, It's Saturday Night Live!" The tumor has spread, that's all.
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I want to know which states are excluded.
Regardless of whether we agree with their tactics or not, the Democratic Party always has a plan.....Republicans NEVER does! A big problem when you have one party working hard to get the vote out and other tactics.
Conservative states ?
to post 2.
GOP lost 2006 and 2008 because voters were tired of Bush and his
occupation of Iraq.
“Audience member: If you have this great message and you have to turn it over to the opposition’s message machine — it’s like if you’re in court and you ask the opposing attorney to explain your story — how do we overcome that?
BO: Well, look, can the Democrats do a better job delivering a message? Absolutely. But this may reveal some naiveté on my part, and so I offer this with some hesitance. I don’t think that the Democrats will be effective simply by trying to mimic what the Republicans have done. First of all, we’re not as good at it. I think that if we express ourselves clearly, concisely, and are willing to take risks and describe what we believe in our guts as a party, then I think we can be successful. Now, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t rapidly respond to untruths and that we don’t have to create an infrastructure to get our message out effectively. I think we do. And it would be wonderful if we had a network, so if you happen to have a lot of money, let me talk to you.”
July 2, 2005
Actually post 2 is correct. Sure Iraq was a big part of the changes in public opinion, but it was a variety of factors. The Dems campaigned on the ‘culture of corruption’ not Iraq. They did so because they simultaneously won back those independents saying the GOP had failed, and also depressed the GOP turnout. Polling on voters that day did not rank Iraq as the reason they voted Dem.
I suppose anything is possible,
but I don’t remember it that way.
corruption?, how so. please expand
what I remember is from 2006 to 2008 is...
drumbeat CheneyCheneyCheneyChenChCCCCCCCCCCCC
BlackwaterHaliberten Americans dying for nothing.Americans paying for a democracy experiment the Iraqis don’t want.
An Iraq war multi-tour veteran told me about Iraqi corruption,
is that what you mean?
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