Posted on 10/26/2010 3:07:57 AM PDT by Puzzleman
The latest Battleground Poll, the last before the midterm election, has just been released. It has good news for Republicans. By a margin of 48% to 42%, respondents favor Republican congressional candidates over Democrat congressional candidates...
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cool ending.
The Morning Shmoe just said he does not believe it. Orders from Obama ya know. What a pathetic POS.
If thats the Case How do we Get A-Holes Like Obama?
I guess we May find out how Reliable this is next tuesday
I blame the media.
I attribute the election of the Bamster to ignorance and gullibility of most of the 2008 majority, with a generous element of wishful thinking among the remainder who could think.
How does Obama’s election two years ago make the Battleground poll somehow unreliable? In fact this 6 point spread is BECAUSE of Obama’s election.
Good news, but i’m suprised that that many people still favor democrats.
You answered your own question,Obama Was elected by all these America Loving Conservatives
Dems have a great line of BS, and a lot of rats and independents believe they are conservative. It doesn't hurt that the GOP has been demonized as extremists, racists, sexists, homophobes and imperialists as well as the party of big business.
It's my contention that, ever since Reagan, our elections have been about Republicans. Recall that Obama was the first Democrat President to receive a majority of the vote since LBJ in 1964.
In 1992, GHWB was unelected...because of his hypocrisy about "no new taxes". He didn't really believe in Reaganomics.
The GOP took Congress in 1994 -- because they promised to do conservative things.
Clinton retained his job in 1996 because the Republicans couldn't come up with anybody but Dole.
Bush won election in 2000, returning the nation to what was the new norm -- because he was supposed to be conservative.
The Republicans lost Congress in 2006 -- because they hadn't acted the way we thought Republicans should act (like conservatives).
Republican were further punished in 2008 -- the wounds from 2006 lingered, plus Bush had come to be perceived as not nearly conservative enough...and the party nominated its weakest candidate since Alf Landon, a man who delighted in stabbing conservatives in the back.
The outcome of every national election since Reagan has hinged on the public's perception of the Republicans -- did they deserve more power, because they had done conservative things and promised to do more. Or should they be punished, because they had ceased to act conservative.
The Democrats have essentially been innocent bystanders in American politics since Reagan. They get the job when the GOP screws up.
I like your concise, simple and brief summary.
The trick seems to be candidates who clearly communicate and then govern “conservatively.”
Cycles of the economy, which are too a degree normal, play a big role as well.
So 2006 and 2008 hinged on an economy turning bad, wars dragging on, very weak communication from the WH, AND a run by the GOP in power which strayed too far from governing “conservatively.”
Most elections are between the 40 yard lines. Most of the time democrats vote democrat, GOP vot GOP. They are the “base.”
The swing voters are the ones who must be “convinced.”
They cover the full spectrum; some may be convinced to vote, or to not vote in particular elections.
They are not just “middle-of-the-road types who go one way or the other; but some are just that.
Voters favor Republicans but there is already rampant Democrat voter fraud on a massive scale including voter machine tampering and vote buying, ie., free food and gift cards for voting Democrat.
They cover the full spectrum; some may be convinced to vote, or to not vote in particular elections.
They are not just “middle-of-the-road types who go one way or the other; but some are just that.
And, if one accepts the fact that around 60% of the voters self-identify as "conservative", either our base is bigger than their base...or the bulk of those "middle-of-the-road" types are conservative.
The keys are a.) running as a conservative and b.) governing conservatively.
Why the GOP can't understand this is beyond me.
Well, no, it's not. It's Washington that can't understand this. Or doesn't want to understand this. Because it means a diminishment of their power.
It truly is "Washington vs the rest of us" -- and has been ever since the thirties. We'r just now waking up to that reality.
The majority of Americans identify themselves as conservative. Yet the GOP is unable to consistently win elections. A testament to the GOP’s corruption and incompetence.
I DO want to see Mehgan McCain crying, tears flowing down her face, screaming about the "takeover of the GOP by intolerant wingnuts" and declaring she will become a Democrat.
This will be their "October Surprise" and "Election Day Surprise" if the GOP doesn't stand up against this election fraud crap! They were warned many elections ago about all this stuff. This, my friends, (at the risk of sounding too much like John McLame) is what Marxist and dictators do when you don't pay attention and even when you do pay attention sometimes.
This could be a double-edged sword. We should be careful this doesn't trigger civil unrest, another reason for 0bama to enjoy declaring Marshall Law and freezing the election by executive fiat!
Let him.
Obama already has accumulated so many enemies by this time, that it will spell an early expulsion from the WH.
Obama is definitely ripe for impeachment, but unfortunately, there's a lot more going on behind the NWO curtain that may not afford us any political or legal clout to get that done.
Case in point: With all the egregious info that was established on Slick Willy, and having him impeached but not removed, what makes you think Obama will be removed?
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