Posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Pennsylvania has an older population (second only to Florida I believe). Many have voted straight democratic all their lives and continue the routine year after year after year...
Because we have so many oldsters (who remember the good old days) they actually thought they were voting for Bob Casey (not Junior). The late Casey senior was a very popular governor...pro-life, pro-gun, Roman Catholic. So pro-life was he that the Clintonista's banished him from speaking at the 2nd Convention Coronation of Bill. A voter not paying attention wouldn't have noticed that it was the son not the father...Junior was pretty much in hiding that last weeks of the campaign.
Lastly, being pro-life and pro-Second Amendment, Casey offered a 'safe' alternative to Santorum and a vote against Santorum was seen as a vote against the President (Melissa Hart also suffered this fate...MoveOn.Org had really sleezy ads running the last week catching Hart (and by association Santorum) 'red handed' for voting with the President 90 some percent of the time.
Just my two cents...still too dazed here to be really coherent.
Sad to be tagged as,
PennsylvaniaMom
But but he didn't mention the EVIL LIBERTARIANS! [insert evil music]
Oh btw, the article was horribly written.
He's almost entirely wrong. The man who is so proud to have not graduated from college could stand to read some history to better ground himself for a macro analysis. Then he would do well to test his theory on every individual loss, where he would find that it wouldn't come close to explaining the majority.
Rush has no idea how to win an election. His single contribution to yesterdays results was inserting himself into the national news as a clown making fun of Fox.
Maybe true. Oddly enough, Frist's seat was the one closely-contested seat in the U.S. Senate that remained in GOP hands after yesterday.
Ken Blackwell lost by 23 points in a state that elected Voinovich by 30.
Anyone out there know just what happened to Mark Sanford in North Carolina?
He got slammed along with everyone else.
Do you have any links to polls that support that theory?
It's very important for you and everyone else to understand this critical point:
exit polls are NOT true scientific polls! They are certainly more accurate than an internet poll posted on a web site, but they aren't at all representative of a random, evenly distributed sample of people. They only measure people who actually went out to vote as opposed to people who stay home, and furthermore they don't take into account the significant biases of people who von't and don't want to answer the exit poll.
As a true gauge of the sentiment of the people, exit polls are only a little bit better than worthless.
Bad timing!
You don't understand what i mean...you are a freeper...you know about 1000 times more about the nuances of politics than the everyday joe in America...the pubs have held the power for a while now and IMO they squandered a lot of it and this led to a throw the bums out mentality...don't analyze it with a fine point...think Reagan and how he a got a general swell of confidence from the masses even though he was facing a monolithic media storm...Bush and the present pub leadership can't communicate well to them( be honest, Bush makes you nervous when he speaks)....sure us freepers know the game but how bout the great unwashed?
What? No attacks on the "LIBERAL-tarians" by El Rushbo that has been spewed by other FReepers ad nauseum?
"I always vote ... but I can sympathize with those who saw extraordinarily little reason to do so this year."
They are the reason we lost the Senate.
Republicans have tried to play "Leftist Lite" in a political ploy to try and garner more votes. They lost sight of what motivated the Reagan Democrats.
It was from the top down. Bush needs to take most of the blame. He had the hammer to veto spending bills, etc. His responsibility was to set the example. He flat failed us for 6 yrs.
Frist is just one of many reasons the GOP lost, but lack of leadership was the biggest reason IMO. Hagel, McCain and Graham have a lot to do with why the GOP lost. And the last minute balk by the GOP on the Patriot Act made W look like he had lost control of the party. GOP has a rebuilding job to do, do they have the horses to do it?
Hell, the fall will probably kill ya!
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