Posted on 06/25/2010 8:39:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All around, there are Democrats telling us their prospects for November are looking up. Things aren't as bad as Republicans say! Health care is becoming more popular! The country wants financial reform! People still like Barack Obama! Isn't Joe Barton awful!
They're fooling themselves. The basic indicators of voters' intentions -- their general mood and attitude toward the policies of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid -- are clear and solid. Unless those indicators change, and most experts believe that would take a huge, unforeseen event that fundamentally alters the political equation, Democrats are in for serious losses this November. The only question is whether those losses will be big enough for them to lose their huge majorities in the House and Senate. Even if they're not, the party will be badly weakened in the next Congress.
The latest evidence is a new survey from pollsters Peter Hart and Bill McInturff for the Wall Street Journal and NBC. The number of people who say the country is headed in the wrong direction is 62 percent -- the highest it has been since the final days of George W. Bush. The troubled economy, of course, is the most important issue, and 66 percent say they expect the economy to stay the same or get worse in the next year.
"There is a sense across the board that things aren't working," says Republican pollster David Winston.
Obama's approval rating is at 45 percent, versus 48 percent disapproval -- the first time the president has ever been underwater in the Journal poll. (By way of contrast, the president's approval rating was 61 percent in April 2009, his high point in the Journal poll.)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Al Bore said in 1992 that “everything that is supposed to be up is down, and everything that is supposed to be down is up,” and he won over Dan Quayle. People like simple explanations.
Yes, but the American people don’t think that would happen “here.”
My understanding is that TX is so status-quo on House seats that the only possible change, unlikely, is a one-seat Republican pickup, a loss for Chet Edwards. That means Ron Paul will win too.
My understanding is that TX is so status-quo on House seats that the only possible change, unlikely, is a one-seat Republican pickup, a loss for Chet Edwards. That means Ron Paul will win too.
There’s going to be a seriously ugly wakeup call for a whole lot of delusional folks. They won’t believe what’s happenng to them - even while it’s happening. History is my witness.
The wake up is when the VAT hits next year. Meanwhile America sleeps.
100,000,000 sounds about right. His friend Ayers is quoted as saying they would need to eliminate 30 million to turn us into a communist country and that was 40 years ago.
First they will send people to the re-education camps to be socialisized, those who can’t be socialisized will be moved to a secure dessert location for “processing”.
No one will care until it’s the knock on their midnight door and the roadblocks go up. Then it’ll be too late.
Boy, I do hope that this editorial is right.
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