Posted on 10/10/2006 8:17:05 AM PDT by Dane
A few weeks ago I wrote a column comparing the 1994 election for the U.S. House of Representatives with this years election. I concluded the column by pointing out that history rarely repeats itself exactly. How wrong I was.
The current page scandal is an exact re-run of the scandal House Democrats faced in 1994 over the House Bank and the House postal system, except that the parties are reversed. This year its the Republicans who are on the ropes and the outcome should be the same devastating results for the party in power.
Lets review the bidding.
In 1994, then Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., was slow to react to growing scandals surrounding the operations of the House Bank and the House postal system. There were early warnings that things were amiss but it took Foley and the rest of the Democratic Leadership months to respond and by then the entire matter had spun out of control.
There is a common thread running though the 1994 scandal and todays scandal: both involved matters that were easily understood by the public and both involved negligent behavior by the people in charge
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I look forward to the exit polling results on "Did the Foley scandal impact your vote?".
A ready made MSM post election talking point.
I do not believe that the Foley "scandal" will effect the election one way or another.
The ones that are going to vote Republican will, those that weren't won't.
The Republicans may lose but it will be for what they did or did not do before Foley.
There are two competing schools of thought. The first is that the RATS and their media handmaidens had to do something to stem the movement toward the GOP, and they chose the very Friday that Congress had completed work on two major pieces of legislation that would further benefit the GOP.
The second hypoethesis, considerably less desirable, is that Foley is just the first wave of many "scandals" trumped up by the RATS and the MSM.
Without knowing what the normal percent is that's meaningless. Maybe it's usually 80 or 90 percent. That sounds like a low number to me but I'm just guessing.
He's nowhere man for now.
1035, good point. Maybe Fox News will come thru in the end.
Yes, and remember they raised taxes after lying to America that they were going to give a "middle class tax cut". By 1994, the veil was off the democrat party and people could see them for who they were, at least for a few years.
As I have stated before and some here just refuse to accept what the polls are indicating, very similar trends as to what was occuring in 1994 and the Tidal Wave of anti-incumbent (GOP) sentiment is still rising.
Without the dead there would never have been a Kennedy presidency.
I think you are right with the popular vote, but not so sure about the electoral vote...he lost by almost 100 electoral votes.
The republicans did what was right for the country, without regard to politics.
Therein lies the difference between real patriots and the demlosers.
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