None of the above. So how do you evaluate the political climate?
No, quite clearly it is all of the above. Either that or you’re a rat troll. Which is it? Shall we ask the mods to check on it? Your posting history of doom and glooming conservatives while boosting liberal Republicans might be interesting to the powers that be around here.
It is a little less than a year and a half until the next election. To be predicting as you are at the current time, you are either ignorant or you have an agenda.
I evaluate the political climate, which is always changing, based on experience, history, and a healthy dose of communication and observation.
Right now, you have to be blind, deaf, and dumb to miss the anger and helplessness that people are feeling towards Washington. The Democrat controlled congress has it’s lowest approval rating since they’ve been keeping records of the congressional approval rating. Bush’s approval rating is in the toilet. The population at large wasn’t really sold on the idea of electing Democrats to solve problems in 2006, as was evidenced by the large number of very close races. The Democrats have done nothing to move things in their direction.
Now, after putting the Democrats in charge and watching as they do nothing and watching as our politicans try and enact a much more radical agenda than promised and then shove amnesty down our throats, people are, quite rightly, disillusioned with Washington.
Anyone who wants to win is going to need to use that anti-Washington sentiment. Who is going to exploit that? Hillary Clinton? Barak Obama? John Edwards? How? With promises of tax raises and bigger government? Yeah, that’s going to go over really big when it comes down to the wire. With promises of having that same government control our health care?
I don’t know whether or not you do have ulterior motive, but if you don’t and you are honestly so mired in conventional wisdom and so stuck in the 2006 election and the 2000 electoral map that you can’t think beyond it, then you would be well suited to stay out of the predictions business. It just ain’t for you.