Posted on 11/06/2002 7:23:20 AM PST by Grover_Cleveland
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Election 2002 boils down to this: It was a terrible night for the Democrats. Heck, it was a terrible year. It was a terrific night for the Republicans. And President Bush is the undisputed heavyweight champ of American politics -- for now.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Lie. For instance, Shaheen outspent Sununu 2 to 1. And Simon gave Davis a run for the money despite being outspent 7 to 1.
Good article. But I think, like most observers, it overplays the importance of money at least a bit, and should at least note some of the exceptions. In the Governor's races in Texas and Florida, the Dem challengers (Sanchez and McBride) spent huge money (like $30 million of Sanchez' own money!), and Dems put a lot of people into those races as well (for their symbolism re George W Bush), yet lost by huge margins (58/40 in Texas, 56/43 in Florida).
If the Dems had put all that effort into the toss-up Senate races, which came in close even in final numbers, they'd probably still control the Senate. Terry McAulliffe (sp?) screwed up bad.
Or, with a little more attention to vote fraud, registering illegal aliens and dead people, convincing corrupt judges to keep the polls open longer in heavily Dem precints (because of "running out of ballots"), having some more airplanes fall out of the sky, sending 10,000 more lawyers to court, citing voter intimidation where none exists, sending more "helpers" into the voting booths to make sure that voters look for the right "union label", and "fixing" some more voting machines to record Dem votes even if they have been cast for Republicans, they could be back in the ballgame in 2004.
Not that I have much use for McAwful, but surely those decisions were the Clintons'. The ghoulfest in Minneapolis too.
1) The Supreme Court, need I say more.
2) Bush's federal judgeships will now proceed!
3) The Dems were repudiated in ssuch a sweet way: McCauliffe should resign which lessons the Clintoon influence on the National Dem Party and hopefully sinks Hitlery's future aspirations.
4) One of the best things: Mondale loses proving that dancing on the grave of a dead fellow Deomcrat and having Klintoon smiling and laughing during the memorial is simply too much for the electorate to stomach. Congrats to Minnesota!
5) The best job in the world? I'd say that goes to the person who gets to throw Dashole out of his office and move him and Jeffords into the broom cloest in the basement.
6) Lousenberg?? Sheesh, this geezer is too old to even take Dem orders. He'll spend his time drooling ath the D.C. steakhouses.
7) Saxby Chambliss over Cleland, that's a big one right up there with Sununu winning in N.H.
NOW, Bush and Congress have two years to prove that they deserve this. Someone should tell the future Senate Majority leader that we are not sharing power, we're moving forward with the many things the Dems have stalled.
His head is in the gutter. He forgot that sometimes integrity counts. He screamed about the republicans going after the Wellstone's at the memorial (the really did not) but when the polls turned against the dems, HE QUICKLY blamed the Wellstone family. Last night and again today, he has blamed the Wellstone family for all of the democrats' woes. How quickly he turns on his own!
. . . In Colorado, Religious Right voters favored Republican Wayne Allard over Democrat Tom Strickland, 85% to 12%, according to Fox News election day polls.
After just finishing Ann Coulter's book, "Slander," I'd like to know, and perhaps Business Week's Richard S. Dunham or maybe Fox News can answer this for me: Is there a membership list of the "Religious Right?" Who are these people and how does one select them in order to poll them?
Perhaps when they mention the "Religious Right," they mean Americans who occasionally attend church services? Or perhaps the "Religious Right" consists of the entire Republican party? I'd really like to know who these people are and how one becomes a member.
It seemed like McAuliffe so bitter about the Florida loss that he lost the big picture. After 9/11 his mantra that Bush lost the Presidency didn't go over with the voters. 9/11 cemented Bush being OUR president.
The bottom line is that the hard left base is fundamentally anti-American by any objective standard: Anti-defense, anti-capitalism, anti-Constitution.
Clinton gave the Dems a reprieve on their reckoning with reality. He managed to appease the marxist base while winning elections in the center. No one else in the Democratic fold has the ability to pull that off. There are deep conflicts between the vision of leftists and that of mainstream Americans.
The Dems will either find a way to conduct fraud at greater scales, or they will have to find someone who can mask the socialist agenda as well as Clinton. I don't think changing their spots is an option for the Dems.
You bet, actually this is a huge victory for California, as Davis out spent Simon by a huge margin, yet barely won the election. This is very revealing in itself.
If Davis still has aspirations for national office perhaps after this election he'll realize he needs to move waaay rightward during the next four years. I can hope.
Prayer matters.
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