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Ten Mysteries of 2010 (Why did some good GOP candidates not win in this anti-incumbent wave?)
National Review ^ | 11/10/2010 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 11/10/2010 11:52:40 AM PST by WebFocus

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1 posted on 11/10/2010 11:52:49 AM PST by WebFocus
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Since the Obama DOJ has given its seal of approval to voter fraud/intimidation, with the blessing of liberal judges, one can assume it’s only going to get worse.


2 posted on 11/10/2010 11:56:02 AM PST by Spok ("Hope and change" - the abolition of liberty and prosperity.)
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With all do respect, did you really believe that Christine O’ Donnell would win? The moment she said that she practices witchcraft, she was gone. Let’s be honest. Rove was right about that. And for West Virginia—that was the best political commmerical in decades-him shooting that health care bill with a shotgun...totally awesome. They who thought that one up should get an award.


3 posted on 11/10/2010 11:57:29 AM PST by gman992
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Voter fraud that goes unpunished. Simple as that. One man, one vote is a joke and the punks, thieves and criminals that make up the democrat party don’t care about the rule of law or this country. .


4 posted on 11/10/2010 12:01:05 PM PST by Dick Vomer (Our President-A modest man, who has much to be modest about.)
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Through corrupt election theft and rinos like rove destroying any chances for our people, by turning their backs on Conservatives and actively working against them is the reason WHY!

LLS


5 posted on 11/10/2010 12:01:50 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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With all do respect, did you really believe that Christine O’ Donnell would win? The moment she said that she practices witchcraft, she was gone. Let’s be honest. Rove was right about that. And for West Virginia—that was the best political commmerical in decades-him shooting that health care bill with a shotgun...totally awesome. They who thought that one up should get an award.

Now I understand why this Republic is doomed.

6 posted on 11/10/2010 12:06:41 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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The explanation can be seen in the Harry Reid race in Nevada...so many people addicted to the government dole for their employment (or believing they are) who can be scared sh**less to come out to the polls out of fear of losing their livelihoods over one schmuck being booted from Congress.

(around here we call that The Murtha Syndrome)


7 posted on 11/10/2010 12:07:45 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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The moment she said that she practices witchcraft...
Are you just stupid or are you a professional liar?

You KNOW that's not what she said. Not even close.

Why do you repeat lies?

Karl Rove? Is that you?

8 posted on 11/10/2010 12:08:25 PM PST by samtheman
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The voters of that state are stupid. They elected a self declared Marxist. Insanity rules I suppose.


9 posted on 11/10/2010 12:08:37 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, what are you hiding? Release your Birth Certificate!)
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“Christine O’ Donnell would win? The moment she said that she practices witchcraft, she was gone. “

Be careful my friend! i said the same thing and got labelled as a RINO among other more odious things.


10 posted on 11/10/2010 12:09:24 PM PST by DM1
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Christine O’Donnell never said that she “practices witchcraft”. She said that she “dabbled” in it as a teenager...which, frankly, I think a whole lot of teenage girls have done, which should really make it a topic of more serious debate and consideration.


11 posted on 11/10/2010 12:09:58 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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we eat our own around here. and there is a certain segment of people in our party who are sexist and dont want female leaders.

its sad.


12 posted on 11/10/2010 12:12:29 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
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My biggest disappointment was that Ruth McClung did not win in Southern Arizona. Not only was she a GREAT candidate, but the incumbent is the traitor Raúl Grijalva, who supported a boycott against his own thrice-noble State, and who robotically did whatever obama and Pelosi said in Congress.

As for Massachusetts, the real issue is that the ‘Rat machine did the “shoe leather” work to get out the vote, with union help, no doubt. That is a lesson for Republicans in 2012, not only in Massachusetts, but also all over the country. Then there is the need to run a social media campaign at least as good as Scott Brown’s in 2009/2010, and better yet as good as obama’s in 2008.

It is also a disappointment that that corrupt toady to the banksters and Jodie Dallas clone Bonnie Fwank is still with us!

At least the Republicans’ taking over the House will greatly diminish both Frank’s and Grijalva’s power, and we won’t have to look at them nearly as much!!!!


13 posted on 11/10/2010 12:16:24 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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You’re right. Some crazy chick fiddling with witchcraft is too much.

“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
- John Adams -


14 posted on 11/10/2010 12:17:57 PM PST by donna (Conservatives believe in God, Family, Country. Not money, money, money.)
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Three reasons: Democrat Corruption, Democrat Corruption and Democrat Corruption!!!


15 posted on 11/10/2010 12:19:19 PM PST by liberalcide1
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Karl Rove? Is that you?

C'mon now - give him his do respect.

16 posted on 11/10/2010 12:54:58 PM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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I hate to keep beating the same drum, but...

The problem is the awful campaigns that many Republicans insist on running.

Negative ads work for Democrats, not for Republicans.

Republicans don’t hate themselves, so it is easy for them to miss the fact that the voters they need to get them over the top in a close election are voters that hate Republicans. No matter how poorly the Democrats govern, these voters will continue to look for better Democrat candidates rather than vote for a Republican.

Negative ads aimed at Democrats may be somewhat effective at raising the negatives of that one candidate, but they are partially offset by neutral-to-favorable coverage in the newspapers and on local TV.

What the negative ads aimed at Democrats do to Republicans is, however, toxic. Each one is one more block on a whole dark, dire and repellent Republican image. Who in their right minds would ever change their party affiliation to vote for these dreadful haters and blamers?

Remember that there is no positive Republican image on our TV’s at all most of the time. Fox News may be correct, but Fox commentaters spend almost all of their time criticizing and finger-pointing. Ads that do the same thing don’t really add much to the discussion except to confirm the fact that the Republicans are hopelessly mired in negativity.

Marco Rubio is a great candidate because he is positive, relentlessly so. Part of Sarah Palin’s appeal is that she has a positive image- nice family, good-looking husband, good looks herself, fitness, positive personal outlook. The reason she made that “Alaska” thing is that her political strategy requires that she show a positive, powerful, smiling identity.

Every time a Republican candidate shows a negative ad it has risks. The ad might provoke backlash. The accumulation of “hate-the-awful-Democrats” political messages has provoked so much backlash that it put many elections out of reach for Republicans.

This effect is bad, but it doesn’t have to be permanent. In my state, Bob McDonald ran a few positive, sunny ads and won easily despite the damage done by the failed Kilgore gubernatorial campaign and the dreadful anti-liberal messages run in an effort to stop Mark Warner and Tom Perrielo in 2008.

What got into Sharron Angle’s mind? Did she think that an anti-immigration ad would inform some unpersuaded voter that we have an immigration problem? It didn’t, of course. Everybody knows that already. What it did was inform the electorate, always alert for Republican racism, that Angle had a racial tin ear.

Positive message, positive images and positive ads will win. Negative ads are losers, and worse, add to the wall of suspicion that the next Republican candidate has to climb.


17 posted on 11/10/2010 1:02:09 PM PST by VaFarmer
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I think there was some vote theft in MA. The state leg. won 17 Repub seats. How could we vote that way and send the same dopes back to DC? I smell a RAT!!!


18 posted on 11/10/2010 1:03:05 PM PST by copwife (All God's creatures have a place in the choir!)
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Absolutely right. Instead, she started her first general election TV advertisement by proudly proclaiming “I am Not a Witch”.


19 posted on 11/10/2010 1:13:46 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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FRAUD


20 posted on 11/10/2010 1:22:42 PM PST by Carley (WE SAW NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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