David Brooks knows what's important in life
Posted on 11/02/2014 8:47:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
DAVID BROOKS: All the models say the Republicans are likely to take over the Senate. A couple of things, one, ticket-splitting. There used to be a lot of people ticket-splitting. They would vote for a Democrat up here, Republican down there, vice versa. That just happens less.
One of the reasons is, the electorate is more educated. The more educated a person, the less likely their ticket splits.
[SNIP]
JUDY WOODRUFF: Is that what you’re seeing?
DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I actually was hoping to give the same answer.
You know, the Republicans will do well in the red states. They’re probably going to do well in Arkansas, places like that, West Virginia, obviously, probably Louisiana, but if the victory — winning over your own people is good. It’s not a huge victory.
So they could do that and still even win the Senate, but if they can get in these purple states, then they’re really showing — they’re breaking out of their pattern, and their pattern has been, especially over the last four years, is they’re toxic. People, even some traditional Republicans, are unhappy with the Republican Party.
But has the party detoxified themselves? Have they returned from sort of a Tea Party, which generates intensity, but scares a lot of people? Are they now seen again as sort of a business party that maybe will get the economy going? And if they start winning some of those purple states, the North Carolinas of the world, or even if Scott Walker wins in Wisconsin in the governor’s race there, then you begin to think, OK, they have improved their image with some of the swing voters.
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Go crease your pants, David.
The left always advertises whom they fear.
Tea partiers are pragmatic enough to realize that you have to have possession of the ball to advance it.
David Brooks needs to detoxify himself. He’s filled to the brim with leftist RINO ideology and is in need of a massive enema.
Just hearing or reading the name David Brooks makes me gag.
One of the reasons is, the electorate is more educated. ..................................... Is he a comedian or what? The electorate is easily duped, and that means more educated???
If the GOP wins on Tuesday, it will be BECAUSE OF THE TEA PARTY.
Just who/whom is this Tea Party boogeyman that the leftists fear?
They don’t want a constitutional republic or something like that?
This is the NY Slimes “conservative”.
Meaning he’s just to the right of Bill Ayers.
David Brooks knows what's important in life
Losers like Brooks can be ignored because they’re deadwood floating with the current. The ones to watch are swimming against the current.
A NY Times conservative is someone who likes the quaint Italian restaurant in the West Village, not the hip one in Brooklyn that does molecular gastronomy.
Seriously, why? Why does it "scare" people?
Ask the low information voter (LIV) to tell you about the TEA party (or even explain that TEA isn't Tea--but rather an acronym for Taxed Enough Already) and they'll tell you all the fake news the DNC Media has been reporting for 5 years now.
They've been VERY successful with the LIVs.
But still, can someone on the air simply challenge people like Brooks and ask them why they think the TEA Party scares a lot of people--without making crap up????
Communist drivel; or dribble.
Exactly.
David Brooks is an ass.
I beg to differ. The ass (either donkey or buttocks) serves a useful purpose. That cannot be said about David Brooks.
Meanwhile Mao spouting Commie loving Democrats are never considered “toxic” to the DNC.
Funny how that is.
I spit on the political mind of David Brooks.
David Brooks is a total wannabee phony. What would he do with himself if he didn’t have liberal to suck up to?
He is about as conservative as Hillary
IMO
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