Mr. Budowsky meets with Democrat strategists to discuss the 2010 elections...
Posted on 03/10/2010 12:48:01 PM PST by DM1
Predictions: In November, Democrats will keep control of the House and Senate. The “doom for Democrats” scenario of über-pundit Charles Cook and others will look foolish in six months. Well before then they will reverse course. Here’s why:
• The seven monthly jobs reports released before Election Day may all show positive jobs growth. The natural recovery of the economy, increased spending from the stimulus bill and hiring of a quarter-million Census workers will fuel jobs gains greater than political analysts realize.
• By Election Day, the jobless rate will be lower and curving downward. Consumer and voter confidence will be higher and curving upward. “Right track, wrong track” opinion will be dramatically improved. Republicans will look like they “hope America fails” as more Americans return to work. Democrats will gain as Prime Minister Gordon Brown gains with the improvement of the British economy.
• Congress will pass a healthcare bill. Passing either the pending bill or a scaled-back bill will bring some victory for the president and a major relief rally for Democrats.
The playing field in November will reverse the playing field of today, with jobs optimism rising and healthcare pessimism receding.
• The progressive populist base that elected Democrats in 2006 and 2008 is being roused again, with or without the president, who was the beneficiary but not the cause of the tidal wave for change that began between 2004 and 2006.
• Arkansas Lt. Gov Bill Halter is energizing small donors and Democratic populism with his challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.). His challenge will energize Democrats in Arkansas and elsewhere.
• Today Democrats wallow in the misery of New York Gov. David Paterson. Soon, Democrats will be energized by the appeal of Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general who embodies the fighting populism that Democrats need to win in 2010.
• Former Houston Mayor Bill White will make the battle for governor of Texas a High Noon showdown rallying Texas Democrats, appealing to Texas independents, registering new voters and tapping the great Hispanic population wave that will transform Texas politics. White will run against the Civil War-age anachronisms of secession, nullification and interposition that will not create one job, build one business or educate one child in Texas.
• Domestic right-wing terrorism and extremism will hurt Republicans, especially juxtaposed against a growing economy that will benefit Democrats.
• If the jobs picture brightens, Democratic Senate candidates have a chance of winning Republican Senate seats in Ohio, Missouri, New Hampshire and Florida.
• Pro-choice women will vote in far higher numbers than analysts expect.
• Democrats will unite behind an aggressive populist attack on the widely disliked Supreme Court campaign-finance decision that would further corrupt Washington and is opposed by 70 percent of Republican, Democratic and independent voters.
Now, Democrats will lose seats in 2010. It is also clear that the White House and many Democrats in Washington are not brilliantly attuned to the temper of our times, but:
America is not a nation of right-wing extremists, haters, pessimists, nut-case secessionists or admirers of obstruction. The base that prevailed in 2006 and 2008 is being roused again. The jobs for workers are coming. The “doom for Democrats” pundits are wrong.
Put the crack pipe down
And Pigs will fly.
The Texas race will be interesting
Barf alert? That is just pathetic and a LOT of “what ifs”.
I think no matter what the Dems do, they are still toast in November.
Too much corruption, for TOO LONG.
NO MORE RINOS, NO MORE PROGRESSIVES AND NO MORE CORRUPTION!!
IMO
Is this person smoking dope? Everywhere I’ve been lately, stores are closed or closing. There are no jobs! In fact, there are fewer and fewer businesses.
The rage of the American people is real and about to boil over.
Delusional and out of his mind.
Satire?
Exactly! Those that don’t see the coming “Restoration of our Republic” (i.e., Revolution) are either ignorant or truly blind.
Heh...
heh heh ha ha ha....
Ha hahahaaaaaaaaa!
I needed that laugh today!
"Jobs for workers are coming?"
Who wrote this....really? Harry "We only lost 32,000 jobs, which is good" Reid?
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Dems....
A day of reckoning is coming...
...you'll long for 1994 after the 2010 election...believe me!
Mr. Budkowsky is going to find himself on the business end of this rage along with the Democrats he shills for.
This guy hails from Planet Whistling Past the Graveyard.
Looks like alot of wishful thinking.
What right-wing terrorism? Just because you call it right-wing doesn't make it so. And it's almost like you WANT it to happen, Butt-owsky.
How much pot gave its life for this article?
Hey author!...Formerly non-political Americans have been energized into the Tea Party Movement. This is new. This is a game changer.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Another beer summit at the WH?
Where’s the barf alert?
Mr. Budowsky meets with Democrat strategists to discuss the 2010 elections...
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