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Dems in Panic Mode as Reality Sinks In
Reaganite Republican ^ | July 19, 2010 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 07/19/2010 2:45:24 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican

Perhaps even both houses of Congress- whilst the Dems begin to turn on one-another: _________________________________________

Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question; and that time, once the Democrats' best friend, is now their mortal enemy.

Since January, when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, the President's party has tried to downplay in public what its pollsters have been saying in private: that Obama's alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap between the right and the left, means that Republicans are on a trajectory to pick up massive numbers of House and Senate seats, perhaps even to regain control of Congress.

Evidence of the pervasiveness of this view: Sunday's New York Times op-ed page, which featured a series of short essays from leading Democratic and Republican strategists about how Obama could go about staging a political comeback, focused not on November's midterms but on 2012 — an indication that Washington conventional wisdom has already written off prospects of Democrats sustaining a majority in the legislature. _________________________________________

And this coming from Time/CNN mind you ... must really be bad for the Obammunists now. Most of Obama's rubes on the Hill must have realized they were sticking their necks out for Team Obama over the last 18 mos, but it seems Gibsy's admission on May 11th that they were in real political trouble brought intra-party tension to a boil.

A painful realization that the Senate -long thought safe- was now in-play too hasn't done much for the progressives' moral as of late, either: _________________________________________

...it forced Pelosi & Co. to recognize that the first part of their plan is failing. Public and private polling suggests that anxiety over the lack of jobs and anger over the big-spending ways of the Administration will trump the merits of the stimulus spending, health care reform and the financial regulation bill in voters' minds. Neither the economy nor voters' perceptions are likely to be turned around by Election Day. Congressional Democrats were aware of this hard reality before Gibbs opened his mouth, but having him say it out loud was apparently too much for those on the Hill to bear... _________________________________________


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; backlash; democrat; fearfuldems; gop; gopcomeback; midterms; republican
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That reality is this: Republicans are on a trajectory to pick-up massive numbers of House and Senate seats in November's midterm elections-
1 posted on 07/19/2010 2:45:31 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

Then why is Reid (poster boy for socialism) 7 pts ahead in NV?


2 posted on 07/19/2010 2:47:29 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Reaganite Republican

Thank you for posting the content and not excerpting.


3 posted on 07/19/2010 2:48:20 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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"Then why is Reid (poster boy for socialism) 7 pts ahead in NV?"

NV voters are retarded?

4 posted on 07/19/2010 2:49:33 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Reaganite Republican

The part of the brain that recognizes reality has to be turned off before one can become a Democrat.


5 posted on 07/19/2010 2:50:17 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Kenny
Then why is Reid (poster boy for socialism) 7 pts ahead in NV?

He isn't. If the election were held today he'd lose.

6 posted on 07/19/2010 2:52:39 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Public and private polling suggests that anxiety over the lack of jobs and anger over the big-spending ways of the Administration will trump the merits of the stimulus spending, health care reform and the financial regulation bill in voters' minds.

In which voters' minds? The ones that will vote D anyway? Because those are the only ones that saw any merit in those boondoggles.

And what is the source of this article?

7 posted on 07/19/2010 2:54:32 PM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Do Be

I hope this author is right.

Rasmussen just posted latest Congressional Generic Ballot -

GOP 45%

DEMS 36%

9 point spread !


8 posted on 07/19/2010 2:57:18 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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“Then why is Reid (poster boy for socialism) 7 pts ahead in NV?”

I’ve heard about that poll, but haven’t looked into it to see the details. I do remember that a number of the polls in Jan. showed Coakley leading Brown in Mass. right up to the eve of the election. One thing most of those polls did not trumpet was voter intensity—Republicans willing to crawl over broken glass to vote, Dims not willing to get out of bed to go vote unless someone came and picked them up with free smokes and Ripple wine as gimmes.

In what’s shaping up to be a very bad year for Dims, with Harry the Undertaker being the poster boy of the Kenyan’s legislative catastrophes, and with Harry barely able to hit 40% in many, many polls over the last few months, I don’t think he can pull this one off unless Angle self-destructs.


9 posted on 07/19/2010 3:00:51 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: humblegunner

I’m trainable, lol


10 posted on 07/19/2010 3:03:02 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Do Be
He isn't. If the election were held today he'd lose.

Poll: Reid Has 7-Point Lead On Rival

11 posted on 07/19/2010 3:03:20 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Col Frank Slade

Yeah. I think I’ll be holding my breath for the next few months.


12 posted on 07/19/2010 3:04:37 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Kenny

Who you gonna trust, me or that stupid poll?


13 posted on 07/19/2010 3:05:58 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Do Be

LOL, you win!


14 posted on 07/19/2010 3:07:02 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Reaganite Republican
Famously said in previous elections

"It's the economy stupid"

15 posted on 07/19/2010 3:19:49 PM PDT by Popman (Why does the New Black Panther Party want to kill saltines ?)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Any white that votes democrat is a traitor. We need 94% to be ‘equal’.


16 posted on 07/19/2010 4:01:05 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Scam poll.


17 posted on 07/19/2010 4:02:08 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: Do Be

***The part of the brain that recognizes reality has to be turned off before one can become a Democrat***

YES!! My wife fell off her bike and struck her head; she was clinically a Democrat for about 6 1/2 hours.


18 posted on 07/19/2010 4:08:31 PM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Makes me think they are on to something we don’t know. To confident and arrogant or just plain stupid?


19 posted on 07/19/2010 4:12:17 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I'D RATHER BE TRIED BY 12 THAN CARRIED BY 6)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Lovely~


20 posted on 07/19/2010 4:12:27 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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