Posted on 07/22/2009 12:30:43 AM PDT by libh8er
This is good vs. evil and probably America's last chance.
And that, as Martha Stewart would say, is a very good thing.
Obama keeps on dropping at this rate, by 2010, he shall have no coattails to keep the House in 2010, and be in single digits by 2012, making it highly unlikely there would be a second term, and maybe even gaining back the Senate then, in addition to the House.
In a sane world, anyway.
But who knows if sufficient numbers of Americans may be considered sane by then.
I am still in favor of breaking what is now the “Untied States of America” into a “Red country” and a “Blue Country”. The nearly contiguous “Red country” would have a number of isolated islands making up the “Blue country” scattered all through its territory.
The emergence of these two entities may come at a terrible price. But the world would be the better for the struggle to have taken place.
If we subtract the African-American support for Obama, which will never, ever change, and the numbers become even starker. 12% of the population, African-Americans voted better than 95% for Obama. Thus, 10% of his vote came from African-Americans and that puts them somewhere between a quarter and a third of his support within the Democratic Party.
Every time Obama's support moves down 100 basis points, it means 110 of the non-African-American electorate is defecting. How many of them are Hispanics?
The more the percentage of Obama support is centered in the African-American demographic, the more it will be recognized as such and the more it will begin to reverse the dynamic in which race put Obama in the White House.
The America people got a big nasty dose of liberalism.
I hope Hussein takes all the liberals down with him.
The population may be shifting back to their pre-2006 voting patterns. To early to say. What concerns me, however, is the GOP has done a rotten job of recruiting strong candidates.
I think when the smoke clears and the media fed Obama hysteria completely dies down, we will go back to being a 52-48 nation. In fact I would say there would be a bigger realignment in favor of conservatives than existed during the Bush years.
For example, here in Illinois, Republican Mark Kirk has announced to run for the Obama-Burris Senate seat. The Illinois Democrat party must be opening champagne bottles as I post this.
His cap and tax vote will hang from his neck like an albatross. The Dems could probably run Burris and still win the seat.
Fixed it!
A lot of whites who voted for BO because it would mean they were really, really enlightened and politically correct are having a private WTF moment about now. They will not, for the most part, admit it to pollsters yet. His numbers are a lot worse than they appear to be, you can sense it.
Since my thesis is that Obama won because of Shelby Steele's insight that Obama exploited white guilt over slavery and segregation, as the people fall away from Obama, his party and Obama himself run the risk of being a polarizing racial party as those white and Hispanic defectors rue their good nature.
It is hard to judge the quality of Republican challengers in this media environment. I'm not happy with our offerings for the Senate in Illinois, Delaware, and Florida to name just three off the top of my head. But these are Senate races with some prominence, I would wager that most of us know very little about House races.
On election day: “We’re bringing Hope and Change.”
Six months later: “I Hope things Change.”
Next year, we’ll all be saying: “I Hope I can find some Change in my pockets.”
...reminded me of this sign:
What are you smokin’?
We are ONE country... UNITED... always will be. I don’t underestimate the spirit of the American people. It’s still alive... I see and hear it every day.
You are obviously right. I don't understand but at least recognize the desire some people had to vote for obama once out of white guilt. I wonder whether they feel any need to reelect the socialist or they're done making up for things that people who look like their great-grandparents did.
I had a nice chat the other day with an old friend in Chicago who voted for Bozobama simply because he hated Bush. He's your classic white boy business man and he was complaining hard about the stuff coming out of Washington. He may still like Obama publicly, but he's learning the hard way about voting negatively.
The numbers are probably worse than they show because more people are switching from the Dems and the polls have not reflected this yet.
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