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2 posted on 11/08/2006 3:43:13 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Doesn't your chart just prove that the media won this election for the Democrats. The economy is healthier now than the 90s, unemployment lower than at Clinton's equivalent point in his presidency and incomes rose 7% AFTER inflation in 2006. Yet people voted out a Republican Congress because of the economy?? That tells me they were sold a bill of goods by the Clown Car Media on the state of this economy. It also tells me the White House was WAY too timid to take credit for the economy and to counter the lies the media was telling about it.

But this isn't where the media's absolute deceit and underhanded campaigning for the Democrats ended. Democrats caught up in scandal like Jefferson, Mollohan, Menedez and even Harry Reid (who took more Abramoff money and gave more quid pro quo in return than most any Republican you can name) were all either re-elected soundly or potentially elevated to Senate Majority leader The reason? The media all but ignored their scandals, (including the fact that Mollohan had to be removed from the co-chair position of the House Ethics Committee by the Dems. for rewarding campaign contributors with pork projects,) in some cases scandal more substantial than anything Republicans other than Duke Cunningham were caught up in.

Indeed, think of the sick irony of the NJ Senate seat where Jersites sent the absolutely corrupt Menedez back to the Senate with his storied past of corruption despite being under criminal investigation and yet turned out the squeaky clean Mike Dewine in Ohio to pay for the sins of Ohio's Republican governor guilty of 4 misdemeanors including the petty failure to report sports tickets given him.

So if Americans were turning out Republicans over corruption, then they did so with an amazing double-standard and not just a bit of hypocrisy. It's unfair really when you consider Republicans largely dispatched with their sleazeoids while Democrats just hid theirs in a backroom until after the elections, expecting and exacting zero accountability from them.

But one has to credit the media with that for ignoring Democratic corruption while hyping even mere allegations or the appearance of wrong with Republicans such as a raid on Curt Weldon's daughters home that in no way suggests guilt. Yet Weldon lost. Jefferson, Mollohan, Menedez, and Reid on the other hand had a good night last night.

You may call that America showing righteous indignation. That such indignation was applied solely to Republicans I call absolute dysfunction and ignorance by an electorate increasingly brainwashed by the Clown Car Media.


4 posted on 11/08/2006 3:49:05 PM PST by MikeA (Where's the media to call the elections a "temper tantrum" by America like they did in 1994?)
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To: Shermy

Note though, the standard fraud of the pollsters: they separate "terrorism" from "Iraq," and many respondents link them. In that way, they make "economic issues" number 1, when clearly it is way, way below national security/terrorism/Iraq.


7 posted on 11/08/2006 3:56:33 PM PST by LS
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To: Shermy

The economy? I'm getting so tired of hearing this. The economy is BOOMING. Unemployment is virtually non-existent, if you want to work. More people own homes than ever before, inflation is non-existent, the stock market is up, and even gas is down. If America considers THIS to be a bad economy, they are in for a very rude awakening when their taxes go through the roof, inflation heats up and business starts getting slapped with even more crap that caused them to run overseas in the first place.

It is really sad. I remember the misery of the Carter years very well and a lot of people today I guess have short memories............

The dems are going to spend two years of investigations, witch hunts, and let's face it, they can impeach Bush and probably Cheney any time they get ready. Then they can stick Pelosi in the White House.

Immigration? All the illegals in this country will be given citizenship and within ten years that problem will have doubled if not more.

I don't even want to think about Terrorism because it's too scary to contemplate.


16 posted on 11/08/2006 9:47:30 PM PST by greccogirl
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To: Vicomte13
More proof that your

Manufacturing labor's reasons for ire at the GOP SHOULD be obvious, but apparently aren't, so they should be stated.

Everyone hears how great the economy is, and it IS great...on the coasts, in the financial centers. But if you're in manufacturing, or in the services that cater to people in amufacturing. The economy sucks and is getting worse, because Republican-style "free trade" means the wholesale export of manufacturing jobs to Asia. There is no job that an American manufacturing worker does that a foreigner cannot do as well for half the price. And there are fewer and fewer crops, even , that can't be grown competitively elsewhere and shipped right into America.

That great recovery and low joblessness is a national average...financial services areas on the coasts have full employment. Manufacturing centers have massive job anxieties. And guess what? They all voted Democrat this time. Republican seats in places like Ohio and Indiana, and of course industry-heavy Pennsylvania, all flipped.

You even see it in the Northeast. There is ONE Republican Congressman left in New England. ONe. Chris Shays of Connecticut's 4th district, the Connecticut "Gold Coast" of financiers from the Greenwich hedge funds and Stamford corporate headquarters. THAT constituency is doing well. But right next door, in a district that is industrial/manufacturing Connecticut, the long-seated Republicans lost or are about to in the recount.

This also explains the black vote in Virginia and Ohio. Blacks are in the bottom half of the socio-economic ladder. Like EVERYBODY in the bottom half, they depend on Social Security and medicare for retirement. And as a group far more than others, they depend on the social safety net and public education.

Republican economic policies most threaten the security of blacks, and as a direct result, even when there are good black Republican candidates on the ticket, the blacks STILL break overwhelmingly for Democrats. And no, it's not because they're brainwashed idiots. They understan their economic sitatuion well, and the Republican policies address it least.

So, put together alienated Hispanics, blacks, and manufacturing workers, and hard economic drivers turn those areas with high concentrations of any of the three Democrat Tuesday night.

It's still the economy, stupid, but Republicans are in the upper, financial, half of it, doing well, and don't really see the effects on the manufacturing base that so-called "free trade" wreaks.

Well, they saw on Tuesday night. Or they COULD see...if they would look.

Will we? I kind of doubt it. The Republican CORE is a certain financial outlook on the world. It's ideological more than pragmatic. I don't think that Republicans are for the most part willing to admit that when the numbers say the economy is doing great, they're losing a whole swath of the country because, really, the economy ISN'T great in a lot of places, and the reason it's not great is the effect of Republican policies. Anxiety breeds blue votes.

If the trend holds, the Democrat wins the election. Let Indiana and Ohio - manufacturing bastions - go blue, and it's over for the GOP.

The biggest thing we Republicans need to do is to have an honest talk about economic policy, and change course on a few things.

is right on

19 posted on 11/09/2006 12:20:17 PM PST by jpsb
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